Fall is the perfect time to get crafty and decorate your home with some DIY fall crafts for adults. Whether you want to make a pumpkin, a scarecrow, or a leaf garland, there’s a craft for everyone in this list. These crafts are easy, fun, and budget-friendly. You’ll love how they make your home cozy and festive!
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DIY Fall Projects for a Beautiful and Budget-Friendly Home
Fall is one of my favorite seasons. The air is crisp, the leaves are colorful, the drinks are warm, and the flannels are cozy. All of those reasons make for great inspiration when it comes to making your own DIY fall crafts. I enjoy creating something with my hands, especially when it matches the season. That’s why I’ve collected these 27 DIY fall crafts that you can do yourself with some simple materials and tools. You can make a pumpkin, a scarecrow, a leaf garland, or anything else from this list. These crafts are easy, fun, and cheap. They will make your home cozy and festive!
Add some color and texture to your fall decor with these DIY ombre pinecones. You’ll need some pinecones, paint, brushes, and a cardboard box. Paint the pinecones in gradient shades of your favorite color and let them dry. Display them in a bowl or a vase for a simple and chic centerpiece.
Capture the beauty of fall leaves with this frugal fall craft. You’ll need a glass jar, some glycerin, water, glitter, and artificial maple leaves. Fill the jar with glycerin and water and add some glitter. Drop in some maple leaves and shake well. Enjoy your maple tree leaf globe as a festive decoration or a gift.
Turn a plain metal bucket into a DIY farmhouse pumpkin bucket with this easy craft. You’ll need a bucket, some spray paint, twine, and a branch. Spray paint the bucket in orange and let it dry. Wrap some twine around the handle and glue a branch to the top. Fill it with flowers or candy for a rustic and charming pumpkin bucket.
Make your own wood slice owl with this fun and easy craft. You’ll need some wood slices, felt, glue, scissors, and a marker. Cut out some felt shapes for the eyes, beak, wings, and feet. Glue them to the wood slice and draw some details with the marker. Hang your wood slice owl on your wall or door for a cute and whimsical decoration.
Create a fall banner with book page leaves with this simple and elegant craft. You’ll need some old book pages, leaf templates, scissors, glue, twine, and clothespins. Cut out some leaves from the book pages using the templates. Glue them to the twine and secure them with clothespins. Hang your fall banner on your mantel or window for a cozy and literary touch.
Learn how to paint acorns with this quick and easy tutorial. You’ll need some acorns, paint, brushes, and a paper plate. Remove the caps from the acorns and paint them in different colors and patterns. Let them dry and glue the caps back on. Use them as vase filler or table scatter for a colorful and natural accent.
Recycle your mason jar lids into mason jar lid pumpkins with this clever craft. You’ll need some mason jar lids, spray paint, cinnamon sticks, burlap, and hot glue. Spray paint the lids in orange and let them dry. Thread them onto a piece of twine and tie them into a circle. Glue a cinnamon stick to the center for the stem and add some burlap leaves.
Make your own DIY fall acorns with this creative craft. You’ll need some plastic eggs, twine, glue, scissors, and acorn caps. Cut the eggs in half and wrap them with twine. Glue an acorn cap to the top of each half. Display your DIY fall acorns in a basket or a jar for a lovely autumn decoration.
Turn a mason jar into a fall owl mason jar with this adorable craft. You’ll need a mason jar, paint, brushes, felt, glue, scissors, googly eyes, and a battery-operated candle. Paint the jar in brown and let it dry. Cut out some felt shapes for the eyes, beak, wings, and ears. Glue them to the jar along with the googly eyes. Place the candle inside and light it up for a cozy and cute owl mason jar.
Make your own pom pom spider garland with this fun and easy Halloween craft. You’ll need some black yarn, scissors, pipe cleaners, googly eyes, glue, and twine. Make some pom poms from the yarn by wrapping it around your fingers and tying it in the middle. Cut four pipe cleaners in half and twist them around the pom pom to make the legs. Glue two googly eyes to each pom pom spider. String them onto the twine and hang your pom pom spider garland on your wall or fireplace for a spooky and fuzzy decoration.
Decorate your home for fall with these fall jars with dollar store flowers. You’ll need some glass jars, paint, brushes, sandpaper, twine, dollar store flowers, scissors, and glue. Paint the jars in fall colors and let them dry. Lightly sand them to create a distressed look. Wrap some twine around the necks of the jars and glue some flowers to it. Fill the jars with water and more flowers for a simple and beautiful fall arrangement.
Create an owl craft with fall tree with this easy and fun craft. You’ll need some paper, scissors, glue, crayons, and a paper plate. Cut out some shapes from the paper for the owl’s body, eyes, beak, wings, and feet. Glue them to the paper plate and color them with crayons. Cut out some leaf shapes from the paper and color them in fall colors. Glue them to the paper plate to make the tree. Display your owl craft with fall tree on your wall or fridge for a cute and festive decoration.
Turn terra cotta pots into a charming scarecrow with this creative craft. You’ll need some terra cotta pots, paint, brushes, glue, straw, felt, buttons, ribbon, and a hat. Paint the pots in different colors and let them dry. Stack them together and glue them to make the scarecrow’s body. Glue some straw to the top and bottom pots for the hair and feet. Cut out some felt shapes for the eyes, nose, mouth, and patches. Glue them to the middle pot along with some buttons for the eyes and mouth. Tie some ribbon around the neck for the scarf and put a hat on the head. Place your terra cotta pot scarecrow on your porch or garden for a friendly and whimsical decoration.
Make your own fall bucket list with this fun and easy craft. You’ll need some paper, scissors, pens, a bucket, and some clothespins. Write down some activities that you want to do this fall on the paper and cut them into strips. Fold them and put them in the bucket. Decorate the bucket and the clothespins with stickers or paint. Hang the clothespins on a string or a board. Pick an activity from the bucket each day and hang it on the clothespin after you complete it. Enjoy your fall bucket list as a way to make memories and have fun this season.
Turn a dryer vent into a pumpkin dryer vent craft with this clever craft. You’ll need a dryer vent, spray paint, wire, pliers, scissors, twine, and a stick. Cut the dryer vent to your desired length and spray paint it in orange. Let it dry and bend it into a circle. Secure it with wire using pliers. Wrap some twine around the wire to hide it. Stick a stick in the center for the stem and add some leaves or ribbon if you like. Display your pumpkin dryer vent craft on your table or mantel for a unique and rustic decoration.
Make your own framed pumpkin with this simple and elegant craft. You’ll need a picture frame, some burlap, scissors, glue, paint, brushes, and a stencil. Remove the glass from the frame and replace it with burlap. Cut out a pumpkin shape from the stencil and place it on the burlap. Paint inside the stencil with orange paint and let it dry. Remove the stencil and paint a stem with green paint. Put the frame back together and hang your framed pumpkin on your wall for a cozy and chic decoration.
Make your own DIY pine cone garland with this easy and festive craft. You’ll need some pine cones, twine, scissors, glue, paint, brushes, glitter, and beads. Paint the tips of the pine cones with white paint and sprinkle some glitter on them while they are wet. Let them dry and glue some beads to them for extra sparkle. Cut a long piece of twine and tie it around each pine cone. Hang your DIY pine cone garland on your window or fireplace for a beautiful and natural decoration.
Turn wood slices into painted wood slice pumpkins with this fun and easy craft. You’ll need some wood slices, paint, brushes, glue, twine, sticks, and ribbon. Paint the wood slices in different shades of orange and let them dry. Glue a stick to the top of each wood slice for the stem. Wrap some twine around the stick and tie it in a bow. Add some ribbon or leaves if you like. Display your painted wood slice pumpkins on your shelf or table for a cute and rustic decoration.
Turn old lamps into jack o lantern lamps with this creative craft. You’ll need some old lamps, spray paint, tape, scissors, black vinyl or paper, glue, lights or candles. Spray paint the lamps in orange and let them dry. Cut out some jack o lantern faces from black vinyl or paper and stick them to the lamps with glue or tape. Place some lights or candles inside the lamps and turn them on for a spooky and glowing jack o lantern lamp.
Celebrate the fall season in New York with this lovely craft. You’ll need some paper, scissors, glue, paint, brushes, and a canvas. Cut out some shapes of buildings, trees, and leaves from the paper. Paint them in fall colors and let them dry. Glue them to the canvas to create a cityscape. Enjoy your autumn in New York as a beautiful wall art.
Make your own DIY jack o lantern string art with this fun and easy craft. You’ll need some wood, nails, hammer, orange yarn, scissors, and a template. Trace the template of a jack o lantern on the wood and hammer nails along the outline. Wrap the orange yarn around the nails to fill in the shape. Cut off the excess yarn and hang your DIY jack o lantern string art on your wall or door for a festive and cute decoration.
Create a mason jar fall luminary with this simple and elegant craft. You’ll need a mason jar, some mod podge, a foam brush, some tissue paper, scissors, twine, and a tea light. Cut out some leaf shapes from the tissue paper in different colors. Apply some mod podge to the jar and stick the tissue paper leaves to it. Let it dry and wrap some twine around the neck of the jar. Place a tea light inside and light it up for a cozy and warm mason jar fall luminary.
Learn how to make paper pumpkin craft with this easy and fun tutorial. You’ll need some orange paper, green paper, scissors, glue, and a stapler. Cut out some strips of orange paper and staple them together at one end. Bend them into a circle and staple them together at the other end. Cut out a stem and a leaf from the green paper and glue them to the top of the pumpkin. Make as many paper pumpkins as you like and display them on your table or shelf for a cheerful and colorful decoration.
Turn burlap into easy burlap pumpkins with this clever craft. You’ll need some burlap, some twine, some stuffing, scissors, glue, sticks, and ribbon. Cut out a circle from the burlap and gather it around the stuffing. Tie it with twine to make a pumpkin shape. Glue a stick to the top for the stem and add some ribbon or leaves if you like. Use different sizes and colors of burlap to make different easy burlap pumpkins for your home.
Decorate your home for fall with these fall rustic mason jars. You’ll need some mason jars, paint, brushes, sandpaper, twine, glue, and artificial flowers. Paint the jars in fall colors and let them dry. Lightly sand them to create a distressed look. Wrap some twine around the necks of the jars and glue some flowers to it. Fill the jars with water and more flowers for a simple and beautiful fall arrangement.
Make your own coffee filter candy corn with this fun and easy craft. You’ll need some coffee filters, scissors, markers, spray bottle, water, glue, and cardboard. Cut out some triangles from the coffee filters and color them with markers in yellow, orange, and white. Spray them with water to blend the colors and let them dry. Glue them to a cardboard circle to make a wreath. Hang your coffee filter candy corn on your wall or door for a sweet and festive decoration.
Turn an old book into a book page pumpkin with this creative craft. You’ll need an old book, scissors, glue, paint, brushes, twine, and a stick. Cut out some pages from the book and fold them in half. Glue them together along the spine to make a fan shape. Paint the edges of the pages with orange paint and let them dry. Tie some twine around the middle of the fan and fan out the pages to make a pumpkin shape. Glue a stick to the top for the stem and add some leaves or ribbon if you like.
Ingredients
- Ombre Pinecone Tutorial
- Maple Tree Leaf Globe
- Farmhouse Pumpkin Bucket
- Wood Slice Owl
- Fall Banner with Book Page Leaves
- Painted Acorns
- Mason Jar Lid Pumpkins
- Fall Acorns
- Fall Owl Mason Jar
- Yarn Pumpkins
- Fall Jars with Dollar Store Flowers
- Wood Slice Owl Ornaments and Owl Tree
- Charming Scarecrow from Terra Cotta Pots
- Fall Bucket List
- Pumpkin Dryer Vent Craft
- Framed Pumpkin for Fall Home Decor
- Gold Leaf Pine Cone Garland
- Painted Wood Slice Pumpkins
- Jack-O-Lantern Lamps
- Autumn in New York Crafts
- Jack-O-Lantern String Art
- Mason Jar Fall Luminary
- Paper Pumpkin Craft
- No-Sew Burlap Pumpkins
- Rustic Mason Jars for Fall
- Coffee Filter Candy Corn
- Book Page Pumpkin Tutorial
Instructions
- Select your favorite fall themed craft project.
- Gather all the necessary materials.
- Create delightful fall crafts using simple steps and ignite your creativity!
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