40+ Easy And Fun Ideas For Preschool Fall Crafts

The cooler weather of autumn provides the ideal opportunity for your kiddos to do some crafting! This list of preschool fall crafts offers enough variety to provide hours of entertainment for toddlers and Kindergartners.

As the weather outside transitions from summer to winter, young kids frequently get less activity and can get too rowdy for indoor play. Fun crafts provide an avenue to exercise your kids’ creativity and let them work on alternative skills without tearing the house apart.

To make sure that I am sharing the best list of preschool fall crafts, I searched long and far, and I so excited to share them with you!

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Best Fall Crafts For Preschool

This list of adorable easy fall crafts for preschoolers includes more than 40 fun fall craft ideas for toddlers, preschoolers, pre-k, and kindergarteners. There’s something for everyone this fall season, including fall-themed acorn crafts, apple crafts, pumpkin crafts, leaf crafts, and scarecrow crafts.

These fall preschool crafts ideas incorporate a lot of skills including painting, lacing, cutting, gluing, tying, and more! Whether you use these ideas at home, school, or daycare, your kids will be busy and happy making crafts all season long.

Best Scarecrow Preschool Fall Crafts

These autumn crafts for preschoolers are a great way to talk about the different seasons and make the perfect activities for any fall crafting time or learning unit.

1. Scarecrow Popsicle Craft

Simple popsicle sticks, craft paint, googly eyes, and construction paper come together to make an adorable fall-themed craft for kids.

A craft stick scarecrow face with googly eyes, a triangular orange nose, and a stitched smile. It has a wide-brimmed hat made of craft sticks, adorned with a yellow sunflower on one side and yellow paper strips for hair, set on a white and orange background.

2. Torn Paper Scarecrow Craft from Crafty Morning

Turn kids’ love of tearing paper into a productive (and fun!) crafting activity with this fall preschool craft idea.

3. Scarecrow Paper Plate Craft from Coffee Cups And Crayons

Paper plate crafts are also great for making at home and work well for groups of kids, which make them ideal for play dates and classroom activities or parties. Provide the supplies and let kids create their own unique and adorable paper plate scarecrows!

Leaf-Themed Preschool Fall Crafts

4. Fold Over Leaf Painting from No Time For Flashcards

This fall leaf painting activity is super simple, and there really is no way to mess it up. It’s perfect for young kiddos who just love getting messy, and it’s a great learning activity for those kids interested in symmetry.

5. Mess Free Autumn Leaf Painting from Kids Craft Room

There’s a time and place to let kids have free reign and get messy. Then there are those times when it’s better to keep the mess contained. With this preschool fall craft, the paint is sealed away behind leaf cut outs, so little hands don’t get messy!

6. Fall Leaf Sun Catchers from The Artful Parent

What a way to incorporate nature into fall art to hang in the windows! This preschool fall craft is perfect for toddlers too!

If you love this idea, it’s very similar to these Nature Mandalas, which you can adapt for any season of the year!

7. Autumn Leaf People from Thimble And Twig

This simple craft uses whatever crafting supplies you have plus a toilet paper roll and a leaf. Add some paint or googly eyes to create the most unique people!

8. Fall Tree With Wine Cork from Attachment Mummy

This easy fall tree craft uses a wine cord and cardstock, is suitable for toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarteners, and will entertain kids as they make and display their creations.

9. Easy Fall Painted Leaves from No Time for Flash Cards

If it’s snowing or raining outside, forget about going outside to pick out leaves and just create your own! Painter’s tape and paint create veins on this fall leaf craft.

10. Fall Leaf Button Art from Artsy Karma

Pull out the buttons and make beautiful art with this preschool fall craft idea. Follow the easy instructions and helpful tips to create a unique masterpiece!

11. Fall Leaf Suncatcher from The Best Ideas For Kids

Fall is the perfect time to brighten up your windows with some beautiful fall arts and vibrant colors. Grab the templates and have fun making some eye-catching suncatchers!

12. Fall Handprint Tree Craft

This Fall Handprint Tree Craft is a fun and easy preschool fall craft project to do with your children as the weather begins changing outside. Give them the supplies and let them show you how they view fall through their eyes!

A fall-themed craft project with a tree made from paper cutouts and colorful stamp prints for leaves in red, orange, and green. It is placed on floral-patterned paper with plastic acorns and leaves as decorations.

13. Leaf Monsters from Busy Blooming Joy

This awesome monster craft is no mess and fuss-free and its best. Transforming real leaves into monsters will keep your toddler or preschooler busy while they make it – then they get to play with it!

14. DIY Leaf Coasters from Family Focus Blog

DIY leaf coasters are practical and decorative pieces that preserve the intricate details of leaves throughout the fall!

15. Tissue Paper Leaf Sun Catcher from Fantastic Fun and Learning

A colorful fall craft for kids to make after talking about the changing leaves. This sensory craft is full of learning, perfect to start the school year this fall!

16. Crayon Leaf Rubbings from EDventures With Kids

I remember doing this classic fall craft as a kid – and my kids love this fun project! There’s just something so exciting about watching the details of the leaves appear on the paper.

17. Leaf Lantern Craft For Kids from Red Ted Art

This gorgeous leaf decoration is the perfect addition to your seasonal decor that kids can create this fall or Thanksgiving. Come and make this beautiful Leaf Lantern Craft today.

Best Pumpkin Fall Preschool Craft Ideas

18. Stamped Lego Pumpkin Painting Craft

Here’s a different craft your kiddo will love! Let your little artists use their favorite Lego pieces to create adorable Stamped Pumpkin Lego Paintings while adding their own personality and creativity. It’s a great fun fine motor activity!

A child's Easy Stamped Pumpkin Lego Painting Craft of a smiling jack-o'-lantern painted in orange on white paper, surrounded by colorful LEGO bricks in green, yellow, red, blue, and gray. The pumpkin has black eyes and a mouth, with a single green LEGO piece at the top representing the stem.

19. Pumpkin Turkey Craft from In The Playroom

This Pumpkin Turkey is a super cute preschool fall craft idea for autumn and even Thanksgiving. You can make these with the kids using mini pumpkins as a Thanksgiving table centerpiece, or as fun and cute decor for the house!

20. Pumpkin String Art from Red Ted Art

This fun paper plate craft combines two activities many kids love: painting and string art. It’s the perfect fall preschool craft to make any time during the fall!

21. Handprint Pumpkin Craft from In The Playroom

If you want to enjoy those autumn vibes, this pumpkin handprint preschool fall craft adds a personal touch to your seasonal decorations.

22. Turkey Pumpkin Craft from Mommy Made That

This Turkey Pumpkin Craft is a cute and creative way for kids to dress up their pumpkins for fall or Thanksgiving! Grab the free printable and make a mess-free alternative to pumpkin carving.

23. Easy Preschool Pumpkin Craft from In The Bag Kids Crafts

This easy preschool pumpkin craft uses a few different patterns of orange washi tape, but you can totally customize this cool idea to make white pumpkins…or pink or purple…or any color!

Amazing Apple Preschool Crafts For Fall

24. Tissue Paper Apple Preschool Fall Craft from Fox Farm Home

This tissue paper apple craft uses bleeding tissue paper to create beautiful apple art that has a fun watercolor effect! It’s a perfect craft for younger kids and a great classroom activity!

25. Fall Tree Apple Stamping

Watch art come alive as you turn apples into stamps for crafting. This apple stamp craft helps little kids learn that leaves change color and is one of those fall art projects that kids LOVE to make again and again.

26. Apple Pumpkin Stamping from In The Kids Kitchen

Use apple slices and acrylic paint to make pumpkin shapes! This easy craft is one of those preschool fall crafts that your kids will ask to do again and again. Create an entire pumpkin patch and a little orange paint!

27. Torn Paper Apple Craft from Little Ladoo

Kids will have a blast making this cute Torn Paper Apple fall craft for preschoolers! The addition of Big Eyes makes simple fall crafts like this one extra adorable.

28. Apple Core Paper Plate Craft from 123Homeschool4Me

This adorable paper plate apple craft is easy-to-make and helps improve fine motor skills through a fun fall craft activity with an apple theme.

29. A Is For Apple Hand Art from Kindergarten Worksheets And Games

This fun activity is perfect for kindergarten and preschool ages, or any child who enjoys making handprints.

Acorn Fall Crafts For Preschool

30. Acorn Paper Plate Craft from Parenting Chaos

This acorn paper plate craft for preschoolers is a simple fun fall activity! Isn’t it adorable?

31. Acorn Lacing Preschool Fall Craft from Kids Craft Room

If your family is anything like mine, then your kids probably love collecting real acorns, pinecones, buckeyes, and more at this time of year. Go on a nature hunt them make acorns!

32. Button-Covered Acorn Craft from Glued To My Crafts Blog

This Button & Paper Acorn craft is absolutely perfect for fall, super easy to make within minutes, and it’s relatively inexpensive too!

33. Thumbprint Acorn Craft from Fun Handprint Art Blog

This adorable thumbprint acorn craft is fun to make and is easy enough for kids of any age to get involved in.

More Adorable Preschool Fall Crafts

34. Handprint Fox Craft from Little Ladoo

I love any good excuse to make a handprint craft and capture this precious little hands while they’re still little! This adorable fox craft is perfect.

35. Folded Sunflower Paper Preschool Fall Craft

This Folded Paper Sunflower Craft is so fun and easy to make, and it’s the perfect way to celebrate summer turning into fall! Your kids will love decorating the house with them.

Note: older kids shouldn’t have any problems, but younger kids may need a little help with this one.

A paper craft of a sunflower made with yellow petals arranged around a brown center, green leaves, and a stem, is placed on a sheet of white paper against a light wood background.

36. Fork-Painted Hedgehog from Taming Little Monsters

Grab the free printable template to make hedgehog preschool fall crafts to put all around the house!

And if fork painting is a hit, try this Lion Fork Painting or Fork Flower Painting!

37. Fall Dot Printables from Marley Dooley Digital

These do-a-dot worksheets are such a fun way to entertain young children while letting them practice their fine motor skills and color recognition skills.

38. Fall Leaf Potato Stamping from How Wee Learn

This fall craft for preschoolers is addictive, so I recommend having oodles of potatoes ready to use on any given day!

39. Four Seasons Tree Craft

As you look at this four seasons tree craft, you’ll notice that each season (or tree) is painted using a different technique. It’s a great hands on activity for preschoolers to work on fine motor skills with different materials!

four seasons tree craft for preschoolers

40. Autumn Wreath Preschool Fall Craft from Two Pink Peonies

This paper plate wreath with leaves is a super easy preschool fall craft to do. It’s also a low prep and no mess craft project which is a huge win!

41. Paper Plate Corn Cob Craft from A Little Pinch Of Perfect

Kids can make their corn craft as part of a farm unit or they can dap on some orange and brown for a perfect fall harvest craft. It’s one of my kids’ favorite preschool fall crafts!

I hope you found some great preschool fall crafts for your kiddos (or class) in this collection of fall crafts! Don’t just stop with one or two – try them all!

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