Bring to life the colors of fall with decorative crafts.
As leaves change from green to rich browns and reds, signalling the arrival of fall, the new school year approaches full speed ahead. Creating engaging craft projects to represent the season can help your child appreciate all that the fall season has to offer. Fall craft projects can represent Thanksgiving, Halloween, school and your child's own imagination.
Thanksgiving Crafts
Thanksgiving is a time of bright and vibrant colors.
To many people, fall signifies Thanksgiving. During this busy time, choose craft projects that are simple enough for an eleven-year-old to work on with limited supervision, such as pine cones decorated with festive tissue paper and construction paper to create a turkey place card holder. Have your child create a mosaic out of small pieces of brown, purple, yellow, green and red construction paper in the shape of a cornucopia, fall leaves or a turkey. With a needle and thread, your child can string popcorn, dried fruits, and pieces of orange peel to make his own Thanksgiving treat necklace.
Back to School Crafts
Give your child the chance to celebrate going back to school.
Fall is a time for children to end summer fun and head back to school. Let your eleven-year-old show off her personality this school year with back-to-school crafts. With pieces of foam, pencils, wiggle eyes and glue, she can create her own pencil and pen toppers. Encourage your child's creativity by letting him make his own backpack monster using foam, wiggle eyes, pipe cleaners, pom-poms, a key chain clip and construction paper. Let your daughter create her own journal for the new school year by covering a notebook with fabrics of her choice. Gather up glitter, yarn, markers and construction paper and let the reader in your life create her own custom bookmarks.
Halloween Crafts
Halloween crafts can help your child get excited for this spooky and mystic night.
Every child looks forward to the fun and mystique of Halloween. Get your child into the spirit with a few Halloween crafts. With lollipops, felt, wiggle eyes and shrink wrap, he can make his own lollipop vampires to share with friends. Alllow your eleven-year-old to help decorate the house for Halloween by creating a pumpkin from a terra cotta pot and paint pens. Let your child draw jack-o-lantern faces on the front of her terra cotta pumpkin, then fill it with Halloween candies. Draw eyes on white plastic trash bags to make a spooky ghost door decoration. Make a custom "padded" hanger for his costume by attaching plastic bags around the shoulders of a wire hanger.
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