Pumpkin Crafts for Kids

It’s been a while since I’ve done any pumpkin related content (though there’s been a lot in the past including crafts, STEM activities, sensory ideas and even pumpkin printables!) so let’s explore some more pumpkin craft ideas for kids.

Tearing paper is a great fine motor skill practice for little kids. Add in gluing, too, and this torn paper pumpkin from Little Ladoo is not only cute but building skills your little one needs. How great is that?

You can tear or cut the tissue paper you use to “paint” these mini pumpkins. Stay at Home Educator has this DIY, which is a cute alternative to painting pumpkins with a little less mess.

These easy glowing jack o’lanterns are a fun project for kids of all ages. Start with a clear plastic cup and you’ll have a bunch of glowing pumpkins in no time. Get the tutorial from Buggy and Buddy.

Make a couple of paper plates into a jack o’ lantern lit with an LED candle with this cute idea from Easy Peasy and Fun. You may already have the supplies you need for this one. Little kids can draw the face and have an adult cut it out for them.

I think kids of a variety of ages would also like this jack o’ lantern monoprint project from Kitchen Table Classroom. Monoprint sounds complicated but you just need paint and some kind of smooth, flat surface to work with and you’ll be printing pumpkins in no time!

A great one for the classroom that can be used as decoration is this goofy pumpkins art project from Mme Marissa. She shows the results from both kindergarten and a grade 2/3 classroom, so it’s great fun for everyone.

Crafters (and probably others) know that apples and pumpkins can look similar as creative motifs, and this project from In the Kids Kitchen takes that observation literally by using an apple to stamp a pumpkin shape. It’s so cute and easy, and if you cut the apples ahead even little kids can do it.

When my daughter was younger I would spend a lot of time trying to come up with activities she could do in the car on long road trips and things to entertain her when we were waiting at restaurants and things that didn’t involve screens.

But it turns out there are a lot of great activities you can do with just a piece of paper and a pen.

What Do We Do All Day has a great collection of pen and paper games, including some that can be done with just one person, though they’re all more fun if you have at least two.

There are some classics on here like hangman and dots and boxes, but there are also quite a few I hadn’t heard of before.

I don’t want to spoil the whole list for you because you should definitely click over there and look around, but I will share about the one that you see pictured above.

This game is called Bridges, and you start by making the big random shape and the dividing it into a bunch of sections (the post says 30-50 sections is ideal but I think this one is smaller than that).

Each player gets their own color marker and you take turns drawing bridges from one space to another, crossing a third. Once there’s a bridge, no other bridges can start, end or cross in those spaces. Keep going until no more bridges can be built, and the person who makes the last bridge wins.

Check out the post over at What We Do All Day for more great ideas for no or almost-no prep games you can play with your kids or that kids can play together. I’d love to know if you have a favorite paper and pen game, whether it’s on this list or a different one.

[Photo: What We Do All Day]

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