Fork Painted Scarecrow Craft for Kids [Free PDF Template]
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Fill the table with colorful art projects like this fork painted scarecrow craft during the fall season! Your 5 to 8 year olds will love making this fall kids craft from colored paper and using a fun technique to add the textured straw by fork painting.
The project comes together in about 25 minutes (plus time for the paint to dry) and will give children opportunities to practice fine motor skills, hand coordination, and creative expression. Be sure to explore our collection of scarecrow activities for kids where you’ll find engaging games, worksheets, and hands-on projects.
Good To Know
- Themes: Scarecrows, Fall, Harvest, Farm
- Activity: Use a fork to paint textured straw hair, then add the scarecrow’s hat, face, shirt, and overalls
- Template: Includes free printable scarecrow face, clothing, and hat pieces
- Ages: Preschool through early elementary
- Time: 20–30 minutes
- Skills: Fork painting, cutting, gluing, layering, and fine motor practice
Creative Fork Painting for the Fall Season
Your little artists will enjoy making this paper scarecrow from a few common supplies and a fork! Kids will cut and assemble the scarecrow, then use fork painting to stamp textured straw onto the hat, sleeves, and hair. Each scarecrow can be personalized with their favorite colors and details.
This easy fall classroom activity is a fun way to celebrate the autumn season and work on important developmental skills like hand-eye coordination, fine motor control, and following directions.
Use our printable scarecrow template to make assembly easy. Just grab some colored paper, paint, a fork, glue, and scissors to create this fork painted scarecrow craft for kids to have a festive fall decoration.
Supplies
- Colored cardstock or construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Markers
- Paint
- Fork
- Paper Plate
- Scarecrow Template (click the “click here to get your freebies” image at the end of the post)
Directions
Start by printing the template, then gather the materials for this fun activity. Get those scissors ready, and let’s help the kids bring this scarecrow to life!
Dip the ends of a fork into paint, then press and drag it across the background paper to create patches of straw. Add painted straw near the top for the hat and on both sides for the scarecrow’s hair and arms, then set the paper aside to dry.
Glue the hat band across the middle of the hat. Let your child press along the strip to help it stay flat and securely attached.
Glue the hat patch onto the upper right side of the hat, just above the hat band.
Use a marker to draw short stitch lines around the edges of the hat patch. This is a simple way to add detail while helping little hands practice controlled lines.
Look for the scarecrow head piece and eye pieces. Glue the eyes near the top of the head, leaving space underneath for the nose and smile.
Glue the finished hat onto the top of the head so the brim rests just above the eyes.
Draw and color a small triangle nose below the eyes.
Add a cheek on each side of the smile. This cheerful detail helps bring the scarecrow’s friendly face to life.
Grab the overall straps and the overalls piece. Glue one strap onto each side of the top of the overalls, then press them down firmly to secure.
Glue the overall pocket onto the center of the overalls.
Glue the overalls onto the shirt to complete the scarecrow’s outfit.
Use a marker or crayon to add lines and patterns to the shirt and overall straps. Your child can make stripes, checks, or any design they like to personalize the outfit.
Once the painted background is dry, glue the scarecrow body near the bottom center of the paper. Position it over the lower painted straw so the straw peeks out from both sides like the scarecrow’s arms.
Finally, glue the scarecrow head above the body and over the painted straw hair. Press it firmly in place, then admire the cheerful fall scarecrow that is ready to display.
What a fun fall keepsake to display in the classroom or at home! We hope your little crafter had fun bringing this smiling scarecrow to life with fork painting and easy template pieces.
If your kids enjoyed this scarecrow activity, scroll down for more autumn crafts, harvest themed printables, and engaging learning activities that make lesson planning simple.
Fall Books for Children
There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves: The mischievous old lady swallowed a handful of leaves! Her tummy started to rumble. So she swallowed some more items. Then, even more. But as her stomach grew full, the leaves began to poke out through her mouth… when suddenly – poofffff! – it turned into a scarecrow!
Pete The Cat Falling For Autumn: Pete is not a fan of fall. But he decides to do some detective work and finds out that there are many things about this season he loves, like corn mazes, hayrides, wearing scarves, and apple picking! This story helps kids learn that even though they might not love every season of the year, there are still good parts to each one.
We’re Going On A Leaf Hunt: The seasons are changing, the days are getting shorter, and children everywhere are starting to make plans for their favorite outdoor adventures – and what could be more fun than a Leaf Hunt?!
Autumn Craft Ideas
Girl Scarecrow Craft – This scarecrow friend is a fun way to celebrate fall and build creativity, cutting skills, and fine motor coordination by getting hands on. Children will assemble her braided straw hair, floppy hat, and patched dress with colorful paper and the help of our free template.
Squirrel Name Craft – Children will love seeing their name spelled out on this little squirrel’s acorns. Our editable template lets you personalize the project with each child’s name to help them work on letter and name recognition. They’ll enjoy creating a keepsake they can show off, plus it sneaks in a little early literacy practice.
Silly Pumpkin Craft – This creative project has kids make a funny pumpkin with a goofy smile, rosy cheeks, and big eyes that’s sure to make everyone laugh. It’s a fun activity for Halloween parties, fall classroom centers, or just a rainy afternoon. Children will enjoy creating their own silly pumpkin while also practicing cutting, gluing, and following directions.
Acorn Paper Plate Craft – Kids will love breaking out the paint and paintbrushes to give their paper plate a make over and turn it into something new. It’s a fun activity for autumn classroom art, preschool and kindergarten lessons, or a cozy afternoon of getting creative at home.
Harvest Learning Activities
These pumpkin emotions flashcards help young children recognize, name, and talk about a variety of feelings through colorful pumpkin faces with different expressions.
Kids can use them for matching games, memory activities, emotion charades, or daily check-ins at home and in the classroom. They build emotional vocabulary, social-emotional learning, observation skills, and empathy. They can also encourage kids to have conversations about feelings in a fun way.
Take a bite out of learning with these fun apple activity pages! Kids will count and graph different apples, match identical apples, guide a caterpillar through a maze, and pair apples with their matching shadows.
Every page helps build important skills like counting, visual discrimination, problem solving, hand-eye coordination, and fine motor control. These printables will be a sweet addition to fall lessons, homeschool activities, or extra practice at home.
Fall fun is in full swing with these engaging fall pattern worksheets! Children will look at colorful autumn pictures and determine what comes next by recognizing and completing a variety of repeating patterns.
Learning to identify patterns strengthens critical thinking, sequencing, prediction, and visual discrimination skills while laying the foundation for early math concepts. These festive printables will fit well into fall classroom activities in preschool, kindergarten, or home.
Kids can continue seeing their favorite characters on the pages of these Acorn Was A Little Wild activities. These book companion activities will have kids building story comprehension and learning through sequencing, character and vocabulary activities, beginning sound practice, tracing, matching, patterns, and more.
These engaging printables help reinforce early literacy, fine motor, and critical thinking skills, so they’re a great choice for preschool and kindergarten classrooms, homeschool lessons, or keeping the fun going after reading the book.
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Free Fork Painted Scarecrow Craft Template
Fork Painted Scarecrow Craft
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Materials
- Colored cardstock or construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Markers
- Paint
- Fork
- Scarecrow Template
Instructions
- Print the template and gather the materials for this fun activity.
- Begin by dipping a fork into paint and stamping straw shapes near the top and on both sides of the background paper, in the areas outlined by the shapes.
- Look for the hat band and glue it across the middle of the hat. Trim off any paper that falls off the sides.
- Glue the hat patch onto the hat.
- Draw short stitch lines around the hat patch.
- Glue the eye pieces in the middle of the head, above the mouth.
- Take the completed hat and glue it onto the top of the head.
- Using a marker, draw the triangle nose below the eyes.
- Next, use a pink marker to draw the cheeks on the sides of the mouth.
- Glue one overall strap onto each side and back of the top of the overalls.
- Glue the overall pocket onto the center of the overalls.
- Optionally, use a marker to draw a checkered pattern on the shirt.
- Take the overalls and glue it onto the shirt to complete the scarecrow’s outfit.
- Using a marker, draw buttons on the top of the overalls, right below the straps.
- Glue the scarecrow’s body near the bottom center of the painted background.
- Finally, glue the head above the scarecrow’s body.
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