You know the fall season has arrived when leaves begin to paint the world in shades of red, orange, and yellow. In addition to their beautiful show of color, oak trees shower the ground with their tiny treasures that provide food for animals like the squirrel in the book, Little Acorn by Melanie Joyce.

Inspired by the story, we have an adorable project to do with your kids, either at home or in the classroom! This Little Acorn craft captures one of the stages of the acorn’s life when it’s buried in the ground. Also, be sure to check out more of our fall crafts your kids can do all season long!

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Little Acorn Book Activity

This activity is the perfect companion idea to the book Little Acorn. It allows children to engage with the story in a hands-on way and learn valuable lessons about the life cycle of trees, how animals depend on them to have food in the winter, and the beauty of the changing seasons.

With our free downloadable template and just a few basic supplies, your little ones can create their very own little acorn character. As they cut, color, and assemble, they’ll develop their fine motor skills and learn to follow instructions.

Supplies

Colored cardstock or construction paper
Scissors
Glue
Acorn template (click the “click here to get your freebies” image at the end of the post)

Click here to see our favorite kids’ craft supplies.

Directions

Start by downloading the acorn template and printing it out. Once you have the template printed, gather the materials needed for this fun activity. Get those scissors ready, and let’s help the kids bring this acorn to life!

hands holding printed template of little acorn craft

First, guide your child to glue the cap to the top of the acorn.

hands gluing acorn top to the body of acorn

Take the cheeks and glue them just below each of the eyes.

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Next, help your child take the grass and glue it to the front and bottom of the acorn.

hands gluing the paper grass to he bottom of the acorn

Finally, encourage your child to glue the dirt to the back of the acorn and grass and glue it in place.

hands gluing paper dirt to background of craft

Be sure to check out our fall crafts while you’re here! Your kids will love creating more fun DIYs like this one!

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Autumn Ideas For Kids

On the hunt for ways to ignite your children’s curiosity and foster their learning this fall? Look no further! We’ve collected some fun and easy autumn ideas for kids that are sure to set them on a path of creative learning.

Discover a treasure trove of engaging projects and activities that will spark their creativity and curiosity. These activities are a fun way to celebrate and decorate for the season while blending in some educational benefits seamlessly.

Explore some of our favorite fall DIYs and activities below.

Autumn Kids’ Books

There’s no denying it – reading books with your kids is a fantastic idea. Sharing a story with your child can help to foster their imagination, increase their vocabulary, and even improve their communication skills.

Plus, as they grow older, reading together can help to promote a love of learning and a lifelong passion for literature.

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?!

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Autumn Crafts For Kids

Acorn Paper Bag Craft – “Leaf” boredom behind and fall in love with crafting. Kids can create a cute acorn puppet that’s as nutty as it is fun.

Related: Fall Connect The Dots

This project is a great way to teach them how to follow instructions and gives them a chance to use their big imaginations when they play with it.

Pumpkin Name Craft – Carve out some time this fall for a festive idea that’s personalized with your child’s name! This project is great for kids of all ages and helps little ones to learn how to spell their names.

Tissue Paper Apple Craft – Spend some time with the kids this fall by grabbing this free template to make an apple out of tissue paper. This fun way to make an apple helps kids gain fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination as they scrunch and glue each piece in place!

Scarecrow Headband Craft – Your kids will be excited to show off their latest fall fashion with this adorable scarecrow headband! This project is suitable for all ages since there’s a craft or color-in version to choose from depending on your child’s skill level.

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Autumn Activities For Kids

Coloring is such a fun and easy activity for kids to do! Bring them some fall inspiration with our printable scarecrow coloring pages! There are 3 sheets to choose from to keep kids occupied and having fun. Download and print for an enjoyable, no-prep activity.

Paper Plate Scarecrow Craft

For a fall day filled with fun, make it all about apples. Have a snack of apple slices and apple juice, then learn a little more about them with our apple worksheets.

These three worksheets will have kids label the parts of an apple, learn to write the word, apple, and uppercase and lowercase Aa’s, and recognize the letter in a letter A maze.

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Build different fall characters with our fall pattern block mats! They’re easy to use and require just a few supplies to get started.

It’s a low prep way to get kids to use their brains to solve these shape puzzles with their tangrams. This fun, independent activity is perfect to use at home or in the classroom.

Introduce kids to Johnny Appleseed and improve their cutting skills with these Johnny Appleseed cutting practice sheets. This set of printables has many apple themed pages for kids to practice using their scissors with.

They’ll cut along the dotted lines vertically and horizontally across the page to improve their fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and hand strength.

Try this fun Popsicle Stick Pumpkin Craft

Did you make this activity with your kids or students? We’d love to feature them on our social media!

For a chance to have your child’s project featured, simply snap a picture of the completed project and post it to our Facebook page, email it to us directly by clicking here, or use #simpleeverydaymom on your social media!

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