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Family Autumn / Fall Bucket List
Our Family Bucket List for Autumn 2014! Autumn is one of my favourite times of year and I often find that it provides lots of opportunities for family activities and fun times together! Below you will find our bucket list of 15 things we hope to do in the coming months! What’s on your Fall Bucket List for 2014? Let us know if you have anything planned or special family traditions for this time of year! Have fun! Ciara x For lots and lots of activities, ideas, crafts, decor ideas etc take a look at our Autumn themed Pinterest boards, a full list list can be found here!
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Autumn / Fall Themed Pinterest Boards – Lots of Activities, Crafts, Books and Décor Ideas!
Pinterest – one my favourite little spots on the web! I love Pinterest, in fact Pinterest is probably one of the reasons I started this blog! This time of year Pinterest is overflowing with ideas for Autumn, Halloween and dare I say, Christmas! Today I am sharing some of our Autumn / Fall themed boards that are packed with tonnes of amazing crafts, activities, books, ideas etc. Please feel free to check them out and follow any or all that catch your eye! I also have a number of collaborative boards which are all open to new contributors at the moment. If you would like to join, simply, follow the…
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Scarecrow Wooden Spoon Puppet – Autumn / Fall Crafts for Kids
Our list of autumn / fall crafts and activities is growing by the day. Why not try our latest – a cute Harvest Scarecrow Puppet! My kids love puppets and putting on their own puppet shows. They also love scarecrows. And they absolutely love this scarecrow puppet I made while Doodles was at school and O was taking a nap as a follow on activity from our Scarecrow Collages. Now I have to go and buy some more wooden spoons so that we can make more for a show they want to put together!!!!! What we used: felt scraps hessian/burlap scraps buttons wooden spoon 3 drinking straws pieces of straw…
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Hedgehogs – Leaf and Paper Collages – Autumn / Fall Preschool Craft
Hedgehogs always remind me of Autumn, and these collages are a lovely, simple preschool Fall activity to celebrate the season. We have a hedgehog who regularly helps himself to our cat’s food at night before hibernating for the winter, so my kiddies were delighted to create their own paper version of “Hedgy”, our little prickly buddy! We have lots of other autumn activities for you to try in our Seasonal section of the blog. What we used: card – flesh coloured and blue sugar paper in autumnal colours glue sticks leaves buttons crayons scissors What we did: I helped the children to draw a rough shape of a hedgehog using…
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Scarecrow Collages – Autumn / Fall Crafts for Kids
Scarecrow collages are a great Autumn/Fall craft for younger children. Hope you have as much fun making these as we did! Continuing with our autumn theme we have been looking at scarecrows and using a variety of materials to make collages. My little girl Oodles (2.5yo) and I made these but they are suitable for preschoolers and children in the younger classes at school. What we used: variety of coloured paper and card straw buttons googly eyes PVA non toxic glue paper plates pre-cut face templates fake sheafs of wheat stickers stapler and staples What we did: We started by gluing some straw onto the top of a paper plate…
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6 Autumn/Fall Crafts for Kids
6 Autumn/Fall crafts for kids. Autumn is a great time of year for inspiring arts and crafts. Here’s 6 crafts we have done recently, perfect for kids of all ages. Lots more on the way in the coming weeks! Click through on each picture for full details on how to do each project! 1. Finger Print Autumn Trees 2. Felt Collages – Autumn Trees 3. Handprint Sunflower Art 4. Handprint Sunflower Art 2 5. Cotton Wool Autumn Trees 6. Clay Leaf Print Hanging Decorations Share photos of your Autumn/Fall crafts with us on our Facebook page or on Instagram (@ourlittlehouseinthecountry). If you are a blogger, you are more than welcome…
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Clay Autumn Leaves – Fall Crafts for Kids
Clay Autumn Leaves – a great, simple Fall craft for all ages. It’s amazing what you can make with a little clay, glue and glitter! Disclosure: I received the clay used in this activity from ArtMaterialsCo.com as a free sample in return for a fair and honest review. All thoughts are my own. I often get my inspiration for our craft and art activities from the materials themselves and when this pack of clay arrived in the post the beautiful rich colour of it immediately made me think of all the lovely autumn activities we had been doing over the past few weeks. We have spent a lot of time…
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Cotton Wool Autumn Trees – Fall Art Activities for Kids
Another quick and easy Autumn/Fall art activity for kids of all ages. Continuing our theme of autumn arts and crafts, Oodles (2.5 y.o) had lots of fun with this collage activity. What we used: blue, green and brown paper cotton wool balls PVA non toxic glue paint – autumn colours glitter What we did: tear the green paper to create hills and stick to the lower half of the blue sheet. next tear the brown paper into strips to create a tree trunk and stick onto the green and blue paper. dip the cotton balls into the glue and stick all over the top of the tree trunk dab paint…
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Sunflower Handprint Art 2 – Autumn/Fall Art Activities for Kids
Sunflowers are such a cheerful flower and what better way to celebrate the ending of summer and coming of autumn with a handprint art sunflower, a perfect craft for preschoolers We love sunflowers and last week we had a lot of fun making a giant sunflower with our handprints. Today we decided to use our favourite flowers as inspiration again for a craft activity. What we used: Pre-cut card handprints Paint PVA non toxic glue Glitter Paper Plate A2 White card Stapler and staples What we did: We painted each of the pre-cut handprints with autumnal colours, sprinkled them with a little red and gold glitter and left to dry…
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Sunflowers – Handprint Art for Kids
Sunflowers are one of my favourite flowers and each year we try to grow them. We haven’t been very successful this year but still managed these lovelies in the picture below. So using these cheerful, sunny flowers as inspiration we set about our most recent art activity – again this is quick and simple and suitable for all ages from 2.5yrs up. What we used: large sheet of paper/card poster paint paint/printing tray plate pencil paint brushes What we did: Doodles (5) placed a plate on the sheet and drew around it with a pencil to make the centre of our flower He then painted a long green stem and…
