Fall Craft Ideas for Making Colorful Acorn Caps

Fall Arts and Crafts for Kids With a Nature Walk and Family Fun

Sep 23, 2008 Marcy Paulson

With autumn crafts for kids, children transform acorn shells into colorful treasures. Here are fall craft ideas and instructions for these fun preschool fall crafts.

Children are nuts about fall crafts for kids, and there are so many ways to keep the fun going. Scrounge for materials on an nature walk, and when kids finish the autumn craft, turn it into a family game night.

Preschool Fall Crafts Materials:

• Acorn tops
• Markers
• Elmer glue

Fall Craft Ideas Include a Nature Walk

Walk with your child through a wooded park, or your own backyard during the months of September and October. You shouldn’t have to look far for these common nuts.Some acorns will still be wearing their barky caps. The hats lend each nut a unique personality. Take a moment to talk to your younger child about the differences between the nuts in size and shape. Stimulate your child’s imagination by comparing the acorns to people. You can arrange a family of acorns to match your own. When you come home, make sure you bring with you a bucket of twenty to fifty acorn caps.

Instructions for Acorn Fall Crafts for Kids

Color the inside of each cap with colored markers. The amount of marker you use, will determine the shade the cap’s inside will become. For pastels, color lightly. For vibrant shades, color the inside of the cap thoroughly. After each acorn top is colored, squirt it full of Elmer’s glue before the marker dries. Allow the caps to dry overnight and then show your child the surprise. The glue will have hardened into a shiny filling, and the color of the marker hidden beneath will have crept through.

Displaying Preschool Fall Craft Set the acorn caps out on a dish to decorate for fall. Allow your child to show visitors the surprise beneath.

Two Fun Family GamesThe first game you and your child can play with the acorn caps is an autumn version of memory. Choose two caps of each color, then mix them up, colors down, in the middle of the table. Take turns trying to make a match. If you find a pair, keep it. The winner has the most pairs collected by the game’s end.

Before beginning the second game , cut a piece of paper for each marker color your child used inside the acorns. Color the scraps with marker, then put them in a paper sack or bowl. Place all the acorns, colors down, on the table. Whoever goes first will draw a scrap of paper and then turn over one acorn in attempts to find a matching color. If the color matches, he squirrels the nut away and takes another turn. If the acorn isn’t a match, flip it back over and let the next player draw a color.

In related articles, parents can find fall craft ideas for an autumn potporri or a fall leaves craft that use technology to preserve an autumn leaf collage, then come inside to create and connect with family.

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