Preschool Crafts

4 Scarecrow Crafts for Preschoolers (Easy Ideas)

4 scarecrow crafts for preschoolers, each with a picture and simple steps. Easy ideas for ages 3 to 5 using paper, paint, and glue.

Kindergarten Prep Team
Oct 11, 2026

A triangle nose, a hat, and straw hair sticking out at the sides, and a child knows it is a scarecrow. The paper plate scarecrow is the scarecrow craft preschool classes make in October. Here are four scarecrow crafts for preschoolers, each with a picture, the supplies, and the steps.

Scarecrows fit a fall week, a farm visit, and the weeks before Thanksgiving. A three-year-old glues a face onto a paper bag puppet. A five-year-old builds the shape scarecrow from circles, triangles, and rectangles and names each piece.

Start here: three scarecrow crafts that always work

Paper bag scarecrow puppet, an easy scarecrow craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5Paper bag scarecrow puppetGlue a face on a bag, playPaper plate scarecrow, an easy scarecrow craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5Paper plate scarecrowThe one most classes make in fallShape scarecrow, an easy scarecrow craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5Shape scarecrowShape names, no scissors for the child

4 scarecrow crafts for preschoolers, with pictures

Paper plate scarecrow, an easy scarecrow craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5

1. Paper plate scarecrow

The child colours a paper plate face, then glues on a paper hat, yarn or paper straw hair and a triangle nose.

Cut and glue

You need: 1 white paper plate, brown paper, green paper, yellow yarn, orange paper, black and pink markers, glue

How to make it
  1. You cut a hat from brown paper and a green strip.
  2. Glue the strip across the bottom of the hat, then glue the hat over the top edge of the plate.
  3. Your child glues pieces of yarn under the hat on each side as straw hair.
  4. Cut an orange triangle and glue it in the middle as the nose.
  5. Draw 2 round eyes and a stitched smile in black, and colour 2 pink cheeks.
Shape scarecrow, an easy scarecrow craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5

2. Shape scarecrow

The child builds a scarecrow from pre-cut circles, triangles, squares and rectangles and names each shape.

Cut and glue

You need: 1 sheet of light blue paper, yellow, brown, red, blue and orange construction paper, 2 googly eyes, black marker, glue stick

How to make it
  1. You cut the shapes from the coloured paper.
  2. Your child glues the yellow circle near the top of the blue sheet as the head, then the brown triangle on top as a hat with a thin strip as a brim.
  3. Glue the red rectangle under the head as a shirt and the 2 blue rectangles as legs.
  4. Glue small yellow rectangles at a sleeve and a trouser end as straw.
  5. Glue on the 2 eyes and the orange nose, then draw a stitched smile.
Paper bag scarecrow puppet, an easy scarecrow craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5

3. Paper bag scarecrow puppet

The child glues a hat, hair and face onto a paper lunch bag to make a hand puppet.

Puppet

You need: 1 brown paper lunch bag, brown paper, yellow yarn, orange paper, red paper, black marker, glue

How to make it
  1. Lay the bag flat with the folded bottom flap at the top as the face.
  2. You cut a brown hat. Your child glues it on the top edge of the flap.
  3. Glue short pieces of yarn under the hat on each side as hair.
  4. Your child draws 2 dot eyes and a stitched smile. Cut an orange triangle and glue it on as a nose.
  5. Cut a red square and glue it below the flap as a patch.
Toilet paper roll scarecrow, an easy scarecrow craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5

4. Toilet paper roll scarecrow

The child wraps a tube in paper, draws a face and adds a hat and straw hair.

Build it

You need: 1 toilet paper roll, tan paper, yellow yarn, brown paper, orange paper, black marker, glue

How to make it
  1. Your child wraps the roll in tan paper and glues it down.
  2. Glue pieces of yarn at the top edge on each side so they hang down as hair.
  3. You make a cone hat from brown paper. Your child glues it on top.
  4. Cut an orange triangle and glue it on the front as a nose.
  5. Draw 2 dot eyes and a stitched smile with the black marker.
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Scarecrow crafts with a 3 year old: hats, straw and shapes

No paint on this page. Cut hats, noses and shapes the night before, set out glue sticks and yarn, and the setup is a tray and a wipe.

A three can glue a hat, hair and face onto a paper bag and a plate on their own. Wrapping the tube and placing small shapes in the right spots needs an adult beside them.

The shape scarecrow is the one for shape names. Hand over one shape at a time and say it: circle head, triangle nose, rectangle body.

The paper plate scarecrow goes on the front door for fall. The paper bag puppet goes in the toy basket, and the tube scarecrow stands by the Thanksgiving table.

What you need for scarecrow crafts

Most of these use the same handful of supplies: brown paper, yellow yarn, orange paper, glue, black marker, white paper plate, green paper, black and pink marker. Everything else is named on the craft it belongs to.

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