67 Easy Fall Crafts for Kids and Families to Make in 2023

Kids will love celebrating the home team and helping put together the game day centerpiece all fashioned using a vintage football helmet.

To make: Wrap a 3-inch embroidery hoop with jute ribbon, and center the helmet upside down on it. Fill a glass vase with water and place in the helmet; add flowers to vase (here, butterfly ranunculus, chamomile, and brown-eyed Susans).

Kids can admire their "hard work" in this simple seasonal display all Fall long. It will look great on the mantel, buffet, sideboard, or even as a holiday table centerpiece.

To make: Simple stack small and mini pumpkins on vintage sewing spools and bobbins

Enlist the littles to help craft a stunning yet simple to make grapevine and felt flower wreath.

To make: Make or buy felt flowers and leaves. Hot-glue flowers and leaves to a grapevine wreath form and hang with a length of ribbon.

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Personalize a wool blanket by “monogramming” it with chenille letters and patches. Choose patches that represent your child's school, initials, or favorite sport. Topstitch onto the blanket or adhere with iron-on fusible tape.

Help kids keep their rooms in tip-top shape by turning a vintage tennis racquet into a pin board they can use to store school memorabilia, photos, or knickknacks.

To make: Start by removing the stings in the racquet. Next, cut a piece of wood or cardboard that is the same size as the opening. Cut a piece of cork board that is also the same size as the opening. Glue the wood and cork board together then glue into the opening. Screw small hooks into the handle of the racquet for extra storage. To hang, drill a small hole in the top of the frame. Thread a piece of twine through the hole and hang from a nail.

For kids who love to braid and wrap items, this is the perfect project to enlist their help.

To make: Wrap a wire wreath form in thin jute rope. Cut six long lengths of the same rope you used to wrap the wreath form. Hot-glue one end of three lengths together. Repeat with the second set of three lengths. Braid rope bundles together. Hot-glue braid to the wreath form. Attach an oversize bow, made from upholstery jute webbing, with hot-glue.

Kids will love helping apply a few coats of copper colored paint to transform pumpkins into shimmering decor that will look right at home on the kitchen counter or shelves.

Simple and impactful, kids will love turning a plain-ole pumpkin into a colorful display.

Make the pumpkin: Fully cover a small or medium pumpkin vertically with lengths of washi tape. Once covered, attach a piece of twine around the base of the stem, holding it in place with hot glue.

Diminutive Honeynut squash make the perfect canvas for replicating vintage apothecary jars.

To make: Print copies of, or purchase, vintage apothecary jar labels. Remove the stem from the squash and dig out a cavity using a potters loop tool. Insert a wine or champagne cork into the cavity. Use matte Mod Podge to adhere the label to the squash. Once dry, proudly display!

No carving necessary to create this sweet pumpkin face. Be sure to give kids a helping hand when using a hot glue gun or have them attach the rickrack with black map tacks.

Make the pumpkin: Lightly draw a simple pumpkin face on a pumpkin. Use lengths of black rickrack to cover the drawing, attaching it with hot-glue. Attach small white buttons to the corner of each eye with hot-glue. Cut pumpkin-shaped leaves from green felt and lengths of green rickrack to create tendrils; attach at the base of the pumpkin stem with hot-glue.

Helping set the Thanksgiving table can be a real treat for kids. To create these super sweet place cards, start by sending them out in the yard to collect dry leaves then have them pen the guests' names on the leaves using a paint pen. Voila!

Is he friendly or is he not?! With rickrack spool bolts how could he be anything other than sweet & cuddly.

Make the pumpkin: Cut a length of extra-large black rickrack. Cut a piece of black felt the same length and attach it to the rickrack so that only the bottom “ruffles” are showing. Attach the top of a flat-shaped heirloom pumpkin for hair. Attach two small black buttons to the center of the pumpkin with hot-glue for eyes. Attach a length of thick black cording above the eyes with hot-glue for eyebrow. Attach lengths of medium-size black rickrack to pumpkin with hot-glue for scar and mouth. Wrap two wooden spools with green rickrack and attach to the bottom sides of pumpkin with hot-glue for bolts.

Littles will love crafting these lovable little friends. No fabric scraps? Try using patterned paper for hats instead.

Make the pumpkin: Trace hat template on wool fabric, adjusting size as necessary; cut out. Use craft glue or iron-on fusible tape to glue straight edges together. Fill hat with batting to help it stand upright; set on pumpkin. Attach a small wood craft bead to a small pumpkin with hot-glue to create a nose. Attach strands of yarn with hot glue around nose to create beard; trim as necessary.

Creepy spider made from buttons, string, and pipe cleaners slither about pumpkins. The very idea is sure to make kids skin crawl!

Make the pumpkin: Thread red string through the holes of a large or medium-size black button in a crisscross pattern; knot or glue in the back to hold in place. Cut eight 1- to 2-inch lengths of black pipe cleaner and glue to the back of the button with hot glue with four on each side; shape into legs. Attach a smaller black button with hot-glue to make a head. Repeat as desired. Attach a black string to the back of the larger button with hot-glue, and hang spider around stem or attach directly to a pumpkin with hot-glue

One in the mouth and one on the wreath..that's what we suspect happening when you recruit kids to help make this delicious fall wreath.

Make the wreath: Gather an assortment of old-fashioned candies in autumnal shades such as yellow, orange, and magenta. Wrap a 14-inch foam wreath form in white ribbon. Attach candy with hot-glue, layering and overlapping as you go. Finish with a yellow burlap bow.

These mummies are just as cute as a button!

Make the pumpkin: Wrap a small white pumpkin with strips of gauze, holding strips in place where necessary with hot-glue. Attach two differently sized black buttons with hot-glue to create eyes. Tack down a length of thin black twine with staple-gun staples to create a mouth.

Painted clothespins and a trusty ruler are a match made in heaven. Your child can pin up artwork, playdate reminders, and notes from pals.

The options are endless when it comes to molding cotton candy into funny-looking monsters. They make the perfect cupcake topper.

Get the tutorial at Super Make It.

Painted edges make these ruler necklaces extra special. Parents will have to cut the rulers into small pieces, while kids paint the edges and thread the cording. They're great teacher gifts and the perfect accessory for back to school.

Send the kids out to forage for fallen leaves, and then head indoors to make these un-boo-lievably adorable ghosts. Paint the leaves with white paint. Once dry, draw on black eyes with black permanent marker. String them together for a spooky garland, scatter them along the table, or use them as place cards.