Easy Pumpkin Crafts for Kids

September 23, 2023 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

Pumpkins are such a fun and easy shape to use for all sorts of craft projects. Even little kids can make super cute crafts with pumpkins like these.

For the littlest kids, this mess-free pumpkin painting project from Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds is a great one. The post includes a printable pumpkin shape you can use to make the project.

This paper strip pumpkin is one of the easiest for little kids to make and gives them a chance to practice their gluing skills. Get the DIY from Color the Moon.

A suncatcher is another easy one for little kids because it looks great almost no matter how you do it. Get the instructions from Fantastic Fun and Learning.

Painting with baking soda is a fun STEAM craft that makes a cool effect. You can find all the details at Inspiration Laboratories.

Using paper strips to make a pumpkin (or an apple if you make it with red paper) is a classic quick and easy craft. You can make this a Thanksgiving craft instead of a Halloween craft by adding things the kids are thankful for to the strips. This idea is from One Little Project. They’ve also got a good post about making yarn pumpkins, which also could be apples if you use red yarn, or you can just make yarn balls in any color you like (add an LED candle to make a super cute lantern).

Speaking of paper pumpkins, another fun three-dimensional paper pumpkin project is this one from Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls. Use plain orange paper, Halloween themed scrapbook paper, or let kids draw on whatever paper you use to make these fun little pumpkins.

Get out your felt and make these little jack o’lantern softies, which can be made no sew as Sunny Day Family shows them, or you can let kids practice their sewing skills on this simple shape.

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Suncatchers for Kids to Make

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Learning about Snow

Not all of us live where there is a lot of snow in the winter (or even where it is winter as I write this, but it can still be fun to learn about snow, what it is and why it falls, so let’s get into it!

First, let’s talk snowflake science with The Homeschool Scientist. They have a free prinatble snowflake science less that’s more than 60 pages long and good for multiple grade levels. The blog post linked here includes some fun snow facts, information about how snowflakes form and why they are both six-sided and (probably) all different.

Expressive Monkey has a great post about how snowflakes are formed and why they have six arms, and also shows some of the pictures taken by W. A. Bentley in the 1920s (more on him below).

You can also grab a free snow facts worksheet with space for kids to draw their own unique snowflakes from Education.com. Simple Living Creative Learning also has a paid snow study resource set that includes things like different types of snowflakes, the snow cycle, symmetry drawing with snowflakes, tips for snow safety, snow-related vocabulary and more.

Homeschool Superfreak has another great page for learning about snowflakes, which includes information about Snowflake Bentley, a great book to read (and person to learn about). It includes lesson plan ideas and links to activities.

Speaking of activities, if you happen to have snow around you can make snow ice cream or maple candy, paint on snow or with snow, or do some snow science experiments. If you get a ton of snow you could maybe even build an igloo or snow structure.

If you don’t get snow you can learn about how animals keep warm in the snow and cold temperatures with this experiment from I Can Teach My Child. Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls can help you learn why big paws (or snowshoes) make it easier to walk in the snow. Or make a snowstorm in a jar like this one from MomBrite.

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