Today we are making a magnetic fall craft for kids! Kids of all ages will have fun making these fall magnets! All you need is some simple craft supplies to make this fall craft. It’s easy, fun, and budget-friendly! You can make this magnetic fall craft at home or in the classroom.

Magnetic Fall Craft For Kids- Scarecrow, farmer's market stand, and orange pumpkin made with paint and popsicle sticks on blue background with text- Kids activities blog
Let’s make fall themed magnets!

Fall Craft For Kids

Fall is here, and it is indeed a wonderful time of year. And alongside fall comes fun fall art projects like this magnetic fall craft for kids. All you need for these easy fall crafts are some popsicle sticks, hot glue, paint, and a few other art supplies!

Younger kids may need a little help using hot glue, but over all this craft isn’t just fun and festive, but it’s great fine motor skill practice as well. Plus, you can hang your fall art on the fridge and use it all autumn long! These diy magnets are great and can be used as decorations whether they are just fall decoration or for Thanksgiving.

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Related: Let’s make even more magnets with these fun crafts.

Supplies Needed For This Fun Magnetic Fall Craft For Kids

How To Make This Fall Craft For Kids

Let’s make our magnets now by creating some iconic fall things! What a fun way to celebrate fall.

Scarecrow Magnet

Step 1

Fall Craft For Kids- Step 1- Scarecrow- 3 popsicle sticks on a gray background- kids activities blog
Grab 3 jumbo popsicle sticks.

Cut 1 popsicle stick in half and cut off the ends. Glue 3 jumbo popsicle sticks together by diagonally gluing a jump popsicle stick across the back of the 3 sticks.

Fall Craft For Kids- Step 1.5- Cut a popsicle stick and use the halves to glue the 3 jumbo sticks together on a gray background- Kids Activities Blog
Cut a popsicle stick in half and use them to glue the 3 jumbo sticks together.

Let it dry.

Step 2

Fall Craft For Kids- Step 2- Red popsicle stick glued across the vertical 3 popsicle sticks- kids activities blog
Cut the ends off a regular popsicle stick and glue it onto the jumbo sticks. This is the scarecrows hat.

Cut the ends off a regular popsicle stick, cut that stick in half, and glue it to the top of your 3 jumbo popsicle sticks.

Craft Notes:

We only had colorful popsicle sticks on hand so we painted the red popsicle stick white to make it easier to paint later.

Step 3

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Paint the scarecrow’s hat brown!

Paint the scarecrow’s hat brown.

Step 4

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Paint the scarecrow’s face white.

Now, paint the scarecrow’s face white.

Fall Craft For Kids- Step 4.5- Scarecrow-Bottom of the scarecrow painted blue- Kids Activities Blog
Paint the bottom half of the scarecrow blue.

And now we paint the bottom half of the scarecrow blue.

Step 5

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Glue your googly eyes using Elmer’s glue or any other craft glue.

Let’s decorate his face. Glue on your googly eyes and paint a mouth adding lines to look like stitches.

Fall Craft For Kids- Step 5.5- Scarecrow- Paint on a stitched mouth and rosy cheeks- Kids Activities Blog
Paint on a stitched mouth and rosy cheeks!

Use pink paint to make rosy cheeks!

Step 6

Fall Craft For Kids- Step 6- Scarecrow- Paint on a yellow shirt and outline with black paint- Kids Activities Blog
Paint on a yellow shirt and out line it with black. Add details too like a pocket!

Add yellow on the blue overalls to be a shirt. Use black paint to outline the yellow and top of the overalls. Add clips on the shoulder and a bib pocket if you’d like.

Step 7

Hot glue a magnet to the back of the scarecrow. And you’re finished! We love scarecrow crafts.

Pumpkin Magnet

Step 1

On to our next easy craft which is the pumpkin magnet!

Fall Craft For Kids- Step 1- Pumpkin-Grab 5 jumbo popsicle sticks -Kids Activities Blog
Grab 5 jumbo popsicle sticks and place them vertically.

Grab 5 jumbo popsicle sticks and place them vertically.

Fall Craft For Kids- Step 1.5- Pumpkin-Glue jumbo popsicle stick diagonally across other popsicle sticks -Kids Activities Blog
Use 1 jumbo popsicle stick and glue it diagonally across the other 5.

Hot glue 5 jumbo popsicle sticks together by hot gluing 1 jumbo popsicle stick across the back of the others.

Fall Craft For Kids- Step 1.75- Pumpkin- Cut popsicle stick in half and glue to the back on both sides of diagonal stick -Kids Activities Blog
Cut 1 jumbo stick in half and use it to glue the opposite sides of the diagonal popsicle stick. This will keep your base together.

Cut 1 jumbo popsicle down and glue it to the back to keep your base together.

Step 2

Fall Craft For Kids- Step 2- Pumpkin- Popsicle sticks painted orange-Kids Activities Blog
Paint your popsicle stick orange.

Paint the popsicle sticks orange.

Step 3

Fall Craft For Kids- Step 3- Pumpkin-Piece of stick hot glued to orange popsicle sticks -Kids Activities Blog
Hot glue a piece of a stick to the back of your orange popsicle sticks. This is the pumpkin’s stem.

Hot glue a piece of stick to the top of the pumpkin.

Step 4

Fall Craft For Kids- Step 4- Pumpkin- Curled green pipe cleaner glued to stick stem -Kids Activities Blog
Cut your pipe cleaner in half, wrap it around your finger so it’s curled, and hot glue it to the pumpkin stem.

Cut a pipe cleaner in half and roll it around your finger and then hot glue it to the back of the stick.

Step 5

Fall Craft For Kids- Step 5- Pumpkin-Glue on googly eyes and paint a smiley face on your pumpkin -Kids Activities Blog
Details! Glue on your large googly eyes using craft glue or Elmer’s glue and paint on a: smile, eye brows, and nose!

Now, use some Elmer’s glue on some large googly eyes to your pumpkin and then paint on a smile, nose, and eyebrows.

Step 6

Finally, use hot glue to glue on a magnet. And you’re finished.

Farmer’s Market Stand Magnet

Step 1

Fall Craft For Kids- Step 1- Farmer's Market- Grab 3 popsicle sticks and place them horizontal, 3 on bottom 1 on top with space -Kids Activities Blog
You will need 4 popsicle sticks. 3 on the bottom and 1 on the top.

Grab 4 popsicle sticks. There should be 3 on the bottom and 1 on the top.

Fall Craft For Kids- Step 1.5- Farmer's Market- 2 vertical popsicle sticks glued to the bottom 3 -Kids Activities Blog
Hot glue a popsicle stick on the left and right sides.

Hot glue 3 jumbo popsicle sticks together by gluing to jumbo popsicle sticks on the left side of the horizontal 3 and on the ride side.

Step 2

Hot glue 1 jumbo popsicle stick horizontally at the top. Now you have your stand.

Step 3

Fall Craft For Kids- Step 3- Farmer's Market-Farmer's market stand painted brown -Kids Activities Blog
Paint your farmer’s market stand brown.

Paint your stand brown.

Step 4

Fall Craft For Kids- Step 4- Farmer's Market- Trace and cut out orange paper pumpkins-Kids Activities Blog
Trace some pumpkins on orange paper and cut them out.

Trace out pumpkins on an orange piece of construction paper.

Fall Craft For Kids- Step 4.5- Farmer's Market- Glued pumpkins on farmer's market stand -Kids Activities Blog
Glue your pumpkins to your farmer’s market stand using a glue stick.

Cut them out and glue the paper pumpkins to your stand with the glue stick.

Step 5

Fall Craft For Kids- Step 5- Farmer's Market- Green glitter added for pumpkin stems -Kids Activities Blog
Use green glitter glue to make stems for your pumpkins.

Use your green glitter glue stick to make stems. Draw some black lines to give the pumpkins details.

Step 6

Fall Craft For Kids- Step 6- Farmer's Market- Add lines to pumpkins and farmer's market sign on brown construction paper to the pop of the stand -Kids Activities Blog
Cut out a rectangle from your brown construction paper and write Farmer’s Market on it. Glue it to the top of your stand.

Cut out a long rectangle from your brown construction paper and write Farmer’s Market on it. Use your glue stick to stick it to your stand.

Step 7

Use hot glue to glue a magnet on the back. You’re finished!

Make This Fall Craft Your Own

Just like all our other crafts you can make this one your own! You can do things like:

  • Adding more details. Add some straw hair, arms, and legs to the scarecrow.
  • Make a lady scarecrow and pumpkin.
  • Add more fall icons like woodland creatures (foxes, owls, and the such), acorns, pinecones, turkey, etc.
  • Apples, acorns, squash, corn, would be great additions to a farmers market stand.
  • Change up the scarecrow’s outfit.
  • Instead of magnets use twine to hang them on the wall instead of the fridge.
  • Make a fall wreath magnet.
  • Forget the magnets, add another stick at the bottom and make puppets.
  • Use Halloween icons instead and turn these into Halloween crafts.
  • Make some that are leaf shape to make this into fall leaf crafts.
  • You could make some fall trees with red, orange, and yellow leaves to make this a fun magnetic fall tree craft.
Finished Fall Craft For Kids- pumpkin, scarecrow, and farmer's market magnets on steel fridge- kids activities blog
We had so much fun making these autumn themed magnets.

Our Experience With This Magnetic Fall Craft For Kids

We had so much fun making these fall magnets. This fall craft was so easy and fun to do. I did have to go ahead and glue some bases for the younger kids. But they were able to decorate them just fine.

I think this would be a fun craft for any season or holiday really. Make magnets based on popular icons. I think if we do this fall craft again, we would add some woodland critters, acorns, and maybe even leaves. We will see.

I like this idea, because I’ve been looking for some fresh fall craft ideas. Don’t get me wrong the handprint fall tree and fall garland is fun to make, but we’ve done it. I’m ready for new fun fall crafts and I think my kiddos (all of them the toddlers, preschoolers, and older kids) appreciated it.

Either way, we have some fall festive magnets on the fridge now, and we all love them. And we hope you love this craft as much as we did.

DIY Fall Magnets Craft

DIY Fall Magnets Craft

Let's make autumn themed magnets! This fall craft will show you how to make a scarecrow, pumpkin, and farmer's market stand magnet using paint and popsicle sticks and some hot glue alongside other basic art supplies.

Materials

  • Magnets
  • Large Popsicle Sticks
  • Regular Sized Popsicle Sticks
  • Construction Paper (We used orange and brown)
  • Glitter Glue Sticks
  • Glue Sticks
  • Elmer’s Glue
  • Hot Glue Gun
  • Googly Eyes
  • Paintbrushes
  • Acrylic Paint
  • 1 Green Pipe Cleaner
  • A Stick
  • Black Marker
  • Scissors

Instructions

  1. Scarecrow- Cut 1 popsicle stick in half and cut off the ends. Glue 3 jumbo popsicle sticks together by diagonally gluing a jump popsicle stick across the back of the 3 sticks.
  2. Let it dry.
  3. Cut the ends off a regular popsicle stick, cut that stick in half, and glue it to the top of your 3 jumbo popsicle sticks.
  4. Paint the scarecrow’s hat brown.
  5. Now, paint the scarecrow’s face white.
  6. And now we paint the bottom half of the scarecrow blue.
  7. Let’s decorate his face. Glue on your googly eyes and paint a mouth adding lines to look like stitches.
  8. Use pink paint to make rosy cheeks!
  9. Add yellow on the blue overalls to be a shirt. Use black paint to outline the yellow and top of the overalls. Add clips on the shoulder and a bib pocket if you’d like.
  10. Hot glue a magnet to the back of the scarecrow. And you’re finished! We love scarecrow crafts.
  11. Pumpkin- On to our next easy craft which is the pumpkin magnet!
  12. Grab 5 jumbo popsicle sticks and place them vertically.
  13. Hot glue 5 jumbo popsicle sticks together by hot gluing 1 jumbo popsicle stick across the back of the others.
  14. Cut 1 jumbo popsicle down and glue it to the back to keep your base together.
  15. Paint the popsicle sticks orange.
  16. Hot glue a piece of stick to the top of the pumpkin.
  17. Cut a pipe cleaner in half and roll it around your finger and then hot glue it to the back of the stick.
  18. Now, use some Elmer’s glue on some large googly eyes to your pumpkin and then paint on a smile, nose, and eyebrows.
  19. Finally, use hot glue to glue on a magnet. And you’re finished.
  20. Farmer's Market-Grab 4 popsicle sticks. There should be 3 on the bottom and 1 on the top.
  21. Hot glue 3 jumbo popsicle sticks together by gluing to jumbo popsicle sticks on the left side of the horizontal 3 and on the ride side.
  22. Hot glue 1 jumbo popsicle stick horizontally at the top. Now you have your stand.
  23. Paint your stand brown.
  24. Trace out pumpkins on an orange piece of construction paper.
  25. Cut them out and glue the paper pumpkins to your stand with the glue stick.
  26. Use your green glitter glue stick to make stems. Draw some black lines to give the pumpkins details.
  27. Cut out a long rectangle from your brown construction paper and write Farmer’s Market on it. Use your glue stick to stick it to your stand.
  28. Use hot glue to glue a magnet on the back. You’re finished!

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How did you enjoy this festive fall craft for kids? How did your magnets turn out?



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