Exciting And Fun Harvest Festival Crafts
The Harvest Festival is a traditional annual celebration of a successful harvest.It’s great time to reflect and share our gratitude and appreciation for everything that we have. But one thing that the Harvest Festival does, is that it remind us how lucky we are to be able to have access to the foods we love. It is a great time to think about harvest themed activities – apples, pumpkins, scarecrow, corn and more! So I thought some The Harvest Festival Crafts would be in order!
The main harvest time vegetables and fruit that often feature in crafts are apple, pumpkins and sweetcorn/ corn husks. But of course there are many more you can include, such as squashes (though they are kind of like funkier pumpkins really), carrots and pears also often feature this time of year! I think these activities are suitables from late August, to September, right through to October and Thanksgiving!
Harvest Festival themed Crafts – The Pumpkin!
Pumpkins are most definitely a big part of harvest festival – and a wonderful way to decorate for the fall season. So let’s start off with some cute pumpkin crafts.
String Art Paper Plate Pumpkin Craft
This String art pumkin paper plate craft is a fun example of one of the crafting activities anyone at any age can do! Younger kids, older kids,teens or even adults can all partake in this craft! Not only are the supplies simple, but also very cheap to buy (infact you might even have all of them in your home!). This multimedia craft allows younger kids to explore more artsy skills. From painting to cutting to handling fiddly yarn, this craft has it all! The warm orange fall colors is perfect for bringing in the festive spirit to your home. This is a lovely craft for both preschoolers and older kids and a great classrom activity as well!
3D Super Easy Paper Pumpkins
These awesome paper pumpkins by Frugal Fun 4 Boys look fantastic! Would you have guessed that no skills are required at all to master this craft? With minimal suppplies needed, this super simple 3D pumpkin craft is a great opportunity for a quick and easy DIY fall decoration, perfect for fabulously festive home/classroom!
Apple Crafts for Harvest
Apple or fruit picking during harvest season is a tradition celebrated in places such as North America and Great Britain. They’re significant to The Harvest Festival so I’ll be sharing these fantastic apple crafts for you to try with your family and friends this season.
Colorful Suncatcher Apple Craft
Again, preschoolers will love this harvest activity. These Suncatcher Apple Crafts are not only super cute but also incredibly fun to make with your kids or students! They make for a fanatstic home decor, especially to highlight The Harvest Festival vibes in the classroom or your home! With water spray bottles and coloring markers, you just know how fun this craft will be for you and the kids. Quick,easy and fun!
Easy Clay Apple Pinch Pots
Aren’t these clay apple pinch pots just so lovely? This craft is beginner friendly meaning that this is the perfect opportunity to let your kids or students have a go at pottery. Super easy and super fun, you have to include this clay pinch pot to your crafts this season! Red, green or even yellow apples will definitly set the festive mood this harvest season. Pinch pots are great as a finger strengthing activity whatever the age group!
Adorable Yarn Wrapped apple craft
A lovely toddler activity that promotes some fine motor skills. These yarn wrapped apples simply look so visually pleasing! These are super easy to make perfect for anyone of all ages who wants to decorate their door knobs or even make a garland! Wrapping the yarn can also be very relaxing . Moreover, it can also help improve fine motor skills of young ones whilst being super festive at the same time!
Sweetcorn themed crafts
Sweetcorn picking and eating is a tradition followed by many since ancient times at Harvest Festivals. With this being said, I have made sure to include some fantasticly fun sweetcorn crafts perfect for anyone who is lookin to celebrate this tradition. They also all look superb!
Fun and Cute mini bubble wrap sweetcorn craft
This bubblewrap sweetcorn craft by HelloWonderful! is a fanatstic way to recycle packaging and paper tubes, meaning that little to no money will be spent! This sweetcorn craft will definitly lift the festive spirit through home/classroom decor or by through pretend play by using it as pretend play food for imaginative children. This is the perfect additon to add to your Harvest Festival crafting.
Adorbable popstical stick sweetcorn
This super cute popstical stick sweetcorn craft by Mommy Made That requires minimal materials (especially, if like us, you have you been collectiong your ice lolly sticks throughout the summer..) which makes it perfect for a quick,easy and cheap activity to keep the kids busy! You could also use leftover popsicle sticks instead of buying them which not only upcycles them but also makes this craft even more cheap! This is a quick and fun way to decorate for the Harvest Festival.
3 Different Indian Corn Crafts for Harvest Festival
This is great for toddlers, preschoolers and kids. Love the combination of nature and crafting. A perfect Harvest craft activity. In this arts and craft blog post, there is not 1, not 2 but 3 different ways to make this super cool Indian corn craft by Little Pine Learners! The variety allows for different projects so that the kids (and you) can stay occupied for longer amount of time since they won’t ever get bored exploring/experimenting with the different materials. Two of the media are naturally sourced outside, which can make for a fun pre art activity for you and the kids. However, if there’s no time to go out and source the natural media, beans is used instead! This is fantatstic and I love the idea of how you can still achieve that natural look using things from your cupboard!
Corn Dolly Tutorial
Whilst on the topic of corn.. making a corn dolly is a must! You can make these traditional corn dollies as per Nitty Gritty Life. Or have a go and make some yarn dolls instead!
Time for some Scarecrow Fun
Scarecrows are used by hundreds and thousands of farmers for hundreds and thousands of years. Infact the first scarecrows were estimated to be made 3,000 years ago! Scarecrows are used to scare off the crows and other birds that might ruin the farmer’s crops. This means that scarecrows serve an important purpose in terms of keeping enough food for us as they protect the crops from being destroyed by the birds. Although the birds may be scared of the scarecrows, we love them! And to celebrate how they help farmers and harvesting, I share with you some cute scarecrow crafts to try out for yourself this year.
Easy and Fun Toilet Paper Roll Scarecrows
These toilet paper roll scarecrows are so easy and fun to make it almost seems too good to be true! They always turn out amazing and make for a good activity in the classroom or at home for kids that needs to get busy. These scarecrows require minimal materials which makes it a super fun craft that can be done over and over again. Moreover, these scarecrows can be customized according to your kid’s preferances which mean that they can decorate them however they like. These super cute toilet roll scarecrows can be used a decorations during the Harvest Festival or play pretend scarecrows in their games.
Adorable Popsticle Stick Scarecrows
Aren’t these scarecrow sticks just so cute?! Not only are they adorable but they’re also super simple to make meaning that anyone can make these and have one for themselves. You can upcycle your leftover popsicle sticks, and if you don’t have any… this is your excuse to go enjoy a few popsicles! Stick them on your walls as decoration or perhaps let them stand in your indoor plant pots for cute home decor idea. Perfect!
Articulated Paper Scarecrow Puppet
This scarecrow paper puppet is the perfect addition to add to your Harvest Festival arts and crafts. This paper puppet can move which makes it super interesting for kids to make at home or at school. This is a great opportunity for kids to practice their fine motor skills and cutting skills whilst still having fun. The scarecrow has two printables available, one in colour and one in B&W so that you can colour it in yourself. These printables are very useful as they provide a base for your paper puppet and ensures that they turn out amazing. Moreover, they have the exact location to pin marked so that your paper scarecrow puppet can move perfectly.
Other Harvest Festival related activities
How about this set of Harvest Festival themed coloring pages? Free to download and so cute. It includes a scarecrow, a little harvest festival food stand, sunflowers and more. Cute and simple!
Farmyard Playset Printable
Though this little farm printable craft set is a more general farmyard theme.. I do think it makes for a lovely printable set for harvest festival too. Afterall.. harvest festival is all about the farm! Hand having a hay barn and tractor are perfect for this time of year!
Toddler Tractor Craft idea
Or how about this adorable craft stick tractor craft by Big Family Blessings? Love it!
Harvest Festival Basket Printable
We also have a cute and simple harvest festival basket for you to download here, color in and assemble!
I hope you have been inspired to give these Harvest Festival Themes activities a go! We have many more crafts, suitable for the Harvest season in our Apple Crafts and Pumpkin Crafts collections for you to browse:
