Autumn & Fall Coloring Pages (Free PDFs)

Here are 15 creative and engaging Autumn & Fall crafting activities for kids, grouped by materials and styles:

🍂 Crafts Using Leaves & Natural Materials

1. Leaf Print Animals: Kids paint the bumpy side of collected fall leaves with washable paint and press them onto paper. Once dry, they use markers to turn the prints into foxes, hedgehogs, or butterflies.
2. Glowing Leaf Lanterns: Children use mod podge or school glue to stick colorful pressed leaves onto the outside of clean glass jars. Placing a battery-operated tealight inside creates a warm autumn glow.
3. Pinecone Hedgehogs: Collect pinecones from outdoors and use brown or gray playdough to form a pointy face on one end. Add small beads or tiny playdough balls for the eyes and nose.
4. Autumn Nature Wands: Kids find sturdy sticks during a nature walk and wrap them with colorful ribbons. They tie big, beautiful fall leaves and pinecones to the top to make magical autumn wands.

🎃 Pumpkin & Apple Themed Crafts

5. Apple Stamping Art: Cut apples in half (crosswise to reveal the star pattern inside). Kids dip the halves into red, orange, and yellow paint to stamp festive autumn patterns onto paper or canvas bags.
6. Paper Plate Pumpkins: Paint a standard paper plate with bright orange paint. Once dry, kids cut eyes, a nose, and a mouth out of black construction paper and glue them on to create a classic fall pumpkin.
7. Pom-Pom Autumn Tree: Draw a simple bare tree trunk on a sheet of paper. Clasp a fluffy pom-pom with a clothespin, dip it into fall-colored paints, and dab it onto the branches to create colorful changing leaves.

✂️ Paper, Yarn & Easy Handcrafts

8. Fall Leaf Suncatchers: Place colorful autumn leaves and bits of tissue paper between two sheets of clear contact paper. Cut it into a fun shape like a leaf or pumpkin, frame it with construction paper, and tape it to a sunny window.
9. 3D Paper Strip Pumpkins: Cut orange construction paper into long, one-inch strips. Stack the strips and secure them at the top and bottom with a paper fastener, then fan them out to create a 3D pumpkin that stands up on its own.
10. DIY Leaf Crowns: Cut a long strip of heavy paper or cardboard to fit around the child's head. Wrap it with double-sided tape, and let kids stick their favorite collected leaves all around it to make a royal nature crown.
11. Yarn-Wrapped Indian Corn: Cut a corn cob shape out of heavy cardboard. Let kids wrap yellow, orange, and brown yarn tightly around the shape, finishing it off by gluing real dried corn husks to the bottom.

🎨 Sensory & Educational Crafts

12. Acorn Motion Painting: Place a piece of white paper inside a deep shoe box or baking tray. Drop in a few blobs of washable fall paint and a couple of real acorns, then let kids shake and tilt the box to roll the acorns around.
13. Autumn Sensory Bin: Fill a large plastic bin with dried corn kernels or dyed rice. Mix in real acorns, mini pumpkins, cinnamon sticks, and fake leaves, providing scoops and cups for endless tactile exploration.
14. Leaf Texture Rubbings: Place fresh, textured leaves under a sheet of plain white paper with the veins facing up. Kids hold crayons sideways and rub firmly over the paper to reveal the detailed skeletons of the leaves.
15. Salt Dough Leaf Fossils: Mix flour, salt, and water to make a simple salt dough, then roll it flat. Kids press leaves firmly into the dough to leave an imprint, bake it to harden, and paint their "fossils" once cooled.