Chris Dunmire : 10 Creative Art & Craft Projects

Fall in Love with Autumn!

10 Creative Arts & Crafts to Inspire Your Fall Season

By Chris Dunmire

Celebrate the onset of autumn this season with a creative harvest of your own! Take advantage of the bursting colors and rough textures this transitional season offers by transforming your sensory experiences into joyful expressions of creativity and play. Whether you enjoy creating small pieces of art or decorative crafts, writing and sharing your poetry or prose, or engaging in playful activities with others, these 10 free creative activities on Creativity Portal® will help you get started:

• Fall-Inspired Mixed Media Painting: There's no more immediate source of inspiration than the Master Paintings of Nature during the fall season. Discover its unlimited depth of color and texture in this fall-inspired mixed media painting project.

• Natural Fall Leaf Wreath: Autumn is the perfect time to decorate with natural materials, and you can bring some of the beautiful colors of the outdoors inside by making a natural fall leaf wreath.

• Fabric Fall Tree Collage: Recycle your fabric or paper scraps into unique works of art. This tutorial shows you how to cut out and arrange a multi-colored fabric or paper autumn tree collage.

• Polymer Clay Pumpkins with Fabric Fall Leaves: Add a bit of creative clay play to your leftover material scraps to create a decorative set of polymer clay pumpkins and fabric fall leaves.

• Autumn Soap Bars: These colorful autumn soap bars are the perfect way to add a seasonal touch to your bathroom decor.

• Cozy Season Autumn Note Cards: Inspire others with your fall sentiments. These printable autumn note cards are patterned with images from the fabric fall tree and polymer clay pumpkin crafts above.

• Fall 'Leave Behinds' Inspiring Autumn Quote Cards: These thinking of you fall leave behind gift cards feature fall-inspired quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert Camus, and Stanley Horowitz. Quote-free cards can also be printed to write in your own personalized message.

• Fall Leaf Cutouts: These fall leave templates can be printed on any kind of paper to make cards, gift tags, name tags, bulletin board decor, scrapbooking elements, and anything else leafly imaginable. Choose from 10 different styles of fall leaf cutout templates.

• Autumn Word Search Puzzle: Can you find all the hidden words in this printable autumn word find puzzle before the trees lose all their leaves? We'll leaf you to try!

• Tree-mendous Memory! Autumn Card Game: Help this tree lose its leaves by remembering where matching pairs of cards are placed. Pick the most to win the game. This autumn version of Tree-mendous Memory! plays best between September and November!

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10/10/12