5 Acorn and Squirrel Crafts for Preschoolers (Easy Ideas)

Start here: three acorn and squirrel crafts that always work

Torn paper acornTear brown paper, glue, a three can do itLeaf tail squirrelReal leaves make the tail, five minutesAcorn rolled squirrel paintingAcorns do the painting, your child shakes

5 acorn and squirrel crafts for preschoolers, with pictures

1. Acorn rolled squirrel painting

The child drops acorns and blobs of paint into a box over a squirrel shape and shakes it so the acorns paint tracks.

You need: white cardstock, brown, orange and yellow poster paint, acorns, 1 shallow box

How to make it

1. You cut a side-view squirrel with a big curled tail from white cardstock.
2. Put the squirrel in the box and drop blobs of paint on it.
3. Your child drops in the acorns and shakes the box back and forth in every direction.
4. Take the acorns out and leave the squirrel to dry.

2. Toilet paper roll squirrel

The child paints a tube, adds a head and arms, and curls a pipe cleaner or paper tail to hold an acorn.

You need: 1 toilet paper roll, brown poster paint, brown card, light brown paper, 1 brown pipe cleaner, 2 googly eyes, black marker and glue

How to make it

1. Your child paints the roll brown and stands it up to dry.
2. You cut a brown circle with 2 small pointed ears. Glue it on the top front as the head.
3. Glue 2 googly eyes on the head and draw a nose dot.
4. Cut a small light brown acorn and glue it on the front of the roll below the head.
5. Curl the pipe cleaner into a spiral and glue it on the back as the tail.

3. Fall nature collage

The child collects leaves, seeds and twigs on a walk and sticks them onto cardboard or contact paper.

You need: 1 rectangle of brown cardboard, maple leaves, short twigs, acorns, white glue

How to make it

1. Your child glues maple leaves flat on the cardboard, spread out and partly overlapping.
2. Glue twigs between the leaves at different angles.
3. Glue acorns in the gaps.
4. Let it dry flat, with a book on top if the leaves curl.

4. Torn paper acorn

The child tears brown paper or scrunches tissue and glues it onto an acorn outline, darker for the cap.

You need: white paper, light brown construction paper, dark brown construction paper, glue, black marker

How to make it

1. Your child tears light brown paper into small pieces.
2. Glue the light pieces inside the nut part.
3. Tear dark brown pieces and glue them inside the cap.

5. Leaf tail squirrel

The child glues real fall leaves onto a squirrel outline to make a big bushy tail.

You need: brown paper, small real fall leaves, black marker, white paper, glue

How to make it

1. You cut a side-view squirrel body with a head and 2 small ears from brown paper.
2. Glue it on one side of the white sheet.
3. Your child glues leaves overlapping behind the body, curving upward as a bushy tail.
4. Draw 1 eye dot and 1 nose dot on the head.

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Acorn and squirrel crafts for 3 year olds

One of these a young three can do almost alone: Torn paper acorn. No exact cutting, no small pieces, and the glue stick does the rest.

Acorn and squirrel crafts after a fall walk

Bring a paper bag on the walk and let your child fill it. Wash and dry the acorns at home before they go in paint.

The acorn rolled painting is messy in a contained way: a shoebox lid, a paper squirrel, three blobs of paint, a few acorns, then shake. Tape the paper down first.

The torn paper acorn is the one a three year old does alone. Tear brown for the nut, darker for the cap, glue stick inside the outline.

Real leaves curl as they dry. Press them under a book overnight before the leaf tail squirrel, and glue them down with white glue, not a stick.

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