Easy Fall Craft Ideas For Cozy And Stylish Homes
Every season is exciting. Fall brings a feeling of coziness and warmth, despite the weather getting colder.
Trees shed their leaves and nature changes colors, revealing beautiful shades of red, orange, brown, and yellow. These changes inspire us to decorate our homes. We’ve prepared fall craft ideas that will hopefully inspire you.
When is it Time to Make Fall Crafts?
Fall is an amazing season that many people wish could last all year! To align with the season, it is okay to make fall crafts in advance. The fall season usually begins in September, so you can start making your fall crafts sometime in August.
Set them aside when you are finished, and don’t display them just yet.
What Materials Do You Use for Making Fall Crafts?
Struggling to figure out what materials to use in your fall crafts? Fall crafts typically focus on the harvest and changing weather. This means that anything you would find in your yard during the changing seasons can be used in your décor.
Here is a list of the best materials for fall crafts:
– Leaves
– Twigs
– Acorns
– Pinecones
– Hay
– Sunflowers
– Pumpkins
– Squash
– Faux Crows
Additionally, don’t forget that you can incorporate items from holidays during the fall, such as jack o lanterns and skeletons for Halloween, or a cornucopia for Thanksgiving.
When can you put out fall craft décor?
Chances are you are proud of the fall crafts you have made. But if you are making them before the season, don’t put them out yet.
Instead, wait until the weather cools and the season actually begins. Generally, this is sometime between mid to late September.
Halloween is a big holiday that happens during the fall season. Therefore, Halloween crafts can be included in fall décor. But take note, these decorations should be taken down after the holiday (October 31 st ) and replaced with more general fall décor.
Are Thanksgiving crafts considered fall décor?
Thanksgiving, like Halloween, is a large fall holiday. Therefore, Thanksgiving crafts can also be considered fall crafts. If you have made Thanksgiving crafts as decorations, set them aside until after Halloween.
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How to Decorate for Fall on a Budget
This list contains many DIY fall project ideas that allow you to create beautiful fall crafts without spending any money. You can find most of the materials you need for fall crafts in your own backyard. Additionally, you can repurpose scraps from previous crafts for fall decorations.
How to Create a Cozy Home for Fall
Want to make your house cozy for the season? Not to worry, you can easily make your home cozy for fall by placing candles and swapping the summer throw on your couch for a winter one.
But when you truly want to transform the look of your home for fall, it’s time to consider some fall decor crafts. These crafts can quickly change the entire appearance of your home with just a few hours of work! Create pumpkin plush pillows for your couch, hang a fall wreath, and make your very own pumpkin spice candle.
Soon enough, your home will be the coziest on the street!
Best Simple Fall Craft Ideas to Enhance Your Home:
1. Glass Bowl Decorative Candle
A lot of the decorations we display in our homes involve candles. These decorations can be simple yet beautiful. For example, you can create a fall ornament using a glass bowl and a candle.
Place the candle in the bowl and add ornaments like pinecones, popcorn kernels, cinnamon sticks, rope, or beans of different colors.
Speaking of fall and candles, a nice idea is to upcycle jars and turn them into stylish containers for autumn-inspired decorations. Here are three ideas to consider. Decorate the jars with ribbon, leaves, or spray paint the interior.
Fill them with candles or other ornaments. 3. Twine Mason Jars
Mason jars and twine make a great combo. There are many lovely ways to decorate the jars using twine, and this is one of our favorites. The idea is simple. Take a jar, clean it, remove any labels, then wrap twine around the center and add a metal washer as a central ornament.
The jars can be used as centerpieces. Leaf Bowl Candle Holders – Alternative idea for decorating Mason jars.
Leaf bowl votive candle holders are charming and can be made at home using artificial leaves, Mod Podge, a small bowl, and plastic wrap. This creative project is surprisingly simple. Another great idea is making leaf string lights.
You likely have string lights that you use for Christmas tree decoration or other events. Now, with this project idea, you can transform them into stunning fall decorations. Create leaf string lights using shrinky dinks (flexible plastic sheets), permanent markers, leaf stencils, and a hot glue gun.
Wreaths are versatile decorations that can be customized to fit any theme or occasion. For example, a fall wreath can be created using wood rounds. Use a plate as a template and arrange the wood pieces around its edge, ensuring that they overlap for gluing. To enhance your wood slice wreath, add a burlap bow and some faux flowers.
Here is another wreath idea to consider: the brass tack wreath.
If you have extra time and don’t mind repetitive tasks, check out this fall brass and copper tack wreath. It’s made using a foam wreath form, 2,800 brass flat head thumbtacks, and copper wire ribbon. You’ll need a lot of tacks for this project, and even more if you want to cover the backside of the wreath, but it’s not worth it.
Make a rustic sign to welcome fall into your home. You’ll need hardwood, a drill, twine, white paint, a fine paintbrush, chalk, and a stencil or paper printout of what you want to paint on the sign. It can be a symbol, a message, or a silhouette.
You can also adjust this project to make something beautiful for winter or spring.
One of our favorite fall craft ideas is making beaker leaf vases. We love the simplicity, cleanliness, and freshness of these vases, as well as how easy they are to make.
All you need are beaker vases and seasonal flowers. Each vase holds only one stem, making them even more charming. They look best when displayed in groups.
10. Fall Accent Pillows
Accent pillows are effective at setting the right mood or capturing a decor’s theme. If you’re planning on prepping your home for fall, you might enjoy making foiled pillows. Use a white t-shirt or blank pillowcase, Deco Foil Hot Melt adhesive sheets, and Deco Foil in various colors and leaf templates.
Instead of painting the leaves onto the pillowcase, use the foiling method. It creates a more long-lasting effect.+
11. DIY Rae Dunn Pumpkins
If you’re looking for some fall décor, try making your own glass pumpkins. You can save money by following Single Girl’s DIY instructions and using items from the dollar store. All you need are a computer, paint, and pumpkins!
12. Coffee Filter Pumpkin Garland
When it comes to pumpkin décor, consider adding pumpkin garland to your walls. This coffee filter leaf and pumpkin garland craft from Three Kids Three Cats And A Husband is simple and fun for the whole family. Just be prepared for it to resemble a science experiment as you dye the filters.
Enjoy an afternoon of crafting with your kids!
Planning to host a fancy dinner this fall season? Make these felt acorn napkin rings from Tikkido. They’re cute, easy to make, yet they will elevate your dinner table.
Just grab acorn caps, felt balls, and twine at the craft store and you’ll have plenty of napkin rings ready in a few hours!
As the weather turns from warm to cold, your kids may be indoors more. Use this opportunity to engage them in an easy fall craft activity. Crafts By Amanda offers a simple tutorial for making suncatchers using materials found at home.
Choose shapes like pumpkins, apples, or acorns to align with the fall theme.
Need plush pumpkins for your couch? Try this easy fall craft using stuffing, drop cloth, a needle, and thread to make cute plush pumpkins. Find instructions on Hoot Shack and have fun creating these adorable cushions for your home!
Baskets and fall season are often connected. This is because fall has traditionally been associated with the time when farmers finished their harvest. Show your neighborhood that you are ready for fall by making a bountiful basket wreath for your door using the Craftivity Designs tutorial.
As long as you have a hanging basket, creating this simple fall craft is easy. You can also personalize it by filling it with your preferred faux fall vegetables.
17. Fall Snow Globe
Snow globes are typically associated with winter, but did you know you can also make a gorgeous fall snow globe? This easy fall craft can be completed in just an hour or two using a mason jar and foliage from your own backyard. Find the full guide on The Soccer Mom Blog and gather the kids for a weekend project you won’t want to miss!
When you are on a tight budget, it can be easier to repurpose items around the house instead of buying new decorations. Try this easy fall craft idea by The Honeycomb Home – recovering your favorite books for the holiday season. All you need is paper, plaid fall-themed ribbon, and creativity, and your home will have a new look.
19. Paper Pumpkins
There are never enough pumpkins each fall season. So when you’ve made all the pumpkin crafts on this list, these paper pumpkins by DIY Inspired should be your next easy fall craft. Made out of paper, tape, glue, sticks, and twine, you can spend an afternoon making these to cover every surface in your home.
And don’t hesitate to make them out of red paper and turn them into apples!
Although you’ve probably made many candles already, this easy fall craft for an autumn spice candle by Anns Entitled Life is the one missing from your collection. You’ll pour the wax yourself for this project, mixing in Apple Pie Spice, nutmeg, cinnamon, and cloves into the melted mixture to create the perfect fall scent.
You’ll want to make one for yourself, and a few extra for friends because they will definitely ask where you got it!
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