Fall Paper Crafts

As I was thinking of fall crafts to make last weekend, I had a little idea. I had just bought my son some new origami paper, and my daughter was busy taking all of the pink sheets to make paper snowflakes. I looked at all of the beautiful fall colors in the package and I realized that snowflakes shouldn’t be only celebrated in the wintertime! And suddenly I was folding and cutting away to my heart’s content.

I cut three fall snowflakes – one with owls and bats, one with acorns and maple leaves, and a third with pumpkins. The leaf doilies I got at my local dollar store (aren’t they purty?!). There’s a link here with a tutorial on how to make paper snowflakes, and for the most part, I cut out the shapes freehand.

For the owl in the top center I used this Fiskars Owl Squeeze Punch, but I shall warn you now that as awesome this paper punch is, it cannot get through six layers of origami paper at once. I ended up having to unfold the snowflake and punch the owl out of two layers of paper (three times) instead. I also used a regular hole punch for the small circles, and those were easy to cut though all the layers of paper at once.

I tried adding the snowflakes to a garland with fall colored ribbon and hanging it from my fireplace, too. But I liked the way they looked in our front window much better!

For more fall activities, try these fall pomanders, applesauce recipes, or these fall mad libs.

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