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Fall Craft Night Ideas
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items Planning a cozy fall craft night with friends? Here are 5 easy and fun fall crafts for adults that are perfect for a girls' night in. From painted pumpkins and handmade candles to pressed flower lanterns, dried orange garlands, and air-dry clay trink...
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Paint Your Own Fall Pumpkins
Make Your Own Fall Candles
Make a Dried Orange & Cinnamon Garland
Make Fall Leaf Air-Dry Clay Trinket Dishes
Crochet a Pumpkin
Paint Your Own Fall Pumpkins
Set up a little pumpkin painting bar with mini pumpkins, warm fall colors, paint pens, and brushes. Everyone can make their own design—from simple neutral pumpkins to floral, checkered, or cute Halloween-inspired designs.
Grab a few per person so everyone can experiment with different designs. I love using a mix of white, orange, and neutral pumpkins.
Craft Pumpkins
These are SO much easier than trying to paint tiny details with a brush. Use them for florals, names, little leaves, bows, dots, and patterns.
Crafts 4 All Acrylic Paint Markers Set - 12, Fine-Tip ...
Add tiny gold details to make the pumpkins look more expensive—especially on cream, black, or terracotta-colored pumpkins.
Metallic Fine Tip Multi-Surface Premium Oil-Based Paint ...
Keep a few brushes available for anyone who wants to do larger painted sections instead of using paint pens.
Art Brushes for Painting and Craft Projects
Put this down BEFORE everyone starts painting. Future-you will be very happy you did.
Plastic Tablecloths | Disposable Table Covers in Various ...
Make Your Own Fall Candles
Make your own cozy fall-scented candles with friends. Everyone can choose their own scent, color, and jar and leave with a handmade candle to take home.
This is the easiest option if you don't want to individually source every candle-making supply. It includes soy wax, fragrance, wicks, centering tools, and wick stickers.
Hearth & Harbor Soy Candle Making Kit - Bulk Supply Kit
Set out a few fall scents like apple, cinnamon, pumpkin, vanilla, cedar, or caramel and let everyone make their own combination.
Fragrance Oils | Perfect Scents for Candle Making
Have everyone name their candle. “Pumpkin Chai,” “Cozy Cabin,” and “October Morning” are way more fun than leaving them unlabeled.
Candle Labels
The prettiest little jars for a DIY fall candle night! The amber glass already gives them that warm autumn look, so all you really need is your wax, fragrance, wick, and a cute label.
8oz. Amber Glass Candle Jars, 2ct. by Make Market®
These keep the wick centered while the wax sets and make the whole process much less annoying.
Wick Centering Tool, 10ct. by Make Market®
Make a Dried Orange & Cinnamon Garland
Create a beautiful dried orange garland using citrus slices, cinnamon sticks, and twine. It's inexpensive, smells amazing, and everyone gets to take home a handmade fall decoration. Bonus: Once you are done with the garland throw it in a pot of boili...
This saves you from having to dry dozens of oranges yourself before the party. You can also make your own if you want to keep the craft extra inexpensive.
Dried Apples and Citrus | MakerPlace by Michaels
Thread these between the orange slices for that classic fall look and smell.
Cinnamon sticks for sale | Buy online - various sizes
Use natural brown twine to keep the garland looking rustic and neutral.
Hemp Rope
You'll want a larger needle so you can easily thread the twine through the dried orange slices.
50 Pack Premium Large Eye Needles for Hand Sewing ...
Optional, but I LOVE adding a few wooden beads between the oranges for a more finished-looking garland.
Wood Beads
Make Fall Leaf Air-Dry Clay Trinket Dishes
Make little handmade clay dishes for rings, earrings, keys, or other small things. Press real fall leaves into the clay for a natural pattern, then add a little gold paint for an elevated autumn look.
This is the main material. Roll it flat, press a real leaf into it for texture, then shape the edges into a little dish.
Sculpey® Model Air® Air Dry Modeling Clay, Color: White
You can use one rolling pin for the whole group. The goal is simply to get the clay evenly flat.
Wooden Rolling Pin
This is my favorite part. Go on a little fall walk beforehand and collect pretty leaves. Different leaf shapes give everyone a completely different dish.
Fall Leaves
Once the clay dries, brush a tiny amount of gold around the edge or into the leaf impression. It makes the finished dishes look SO much more expensive.
Acrylic Metallic Paint | Individual Paints & Sets
Seal the finished dishes after they're completely dry to give them a more finished look.
Mod Podge® Clear Acrylic Sealer, Gloss
Use these for the gold details and little touch-ups. You will also want these for the sealer so make sure to get various sizes
Art Brushes for Painting and Craft Projects
Crochet a Pumpkin
Make your own cozy crochet pumpkins for the perfect handmade fall decor! This beginner-friendly DIY is a fun craft to do with friends and makes adorable little pumpkins for your shelves, coffee table, tiered tray, or fall centerpiece.
Get your yarn for your pumpkins. I use all sorts of thicknesses, textures, and colors for my pumpkin project. Its nice to have options for your craft night as well
Lion Brand Wool Ease Thick & Quick 133A Pumpkin (170g)
A great hook set for chunky crochet projects! With sizes from 6mm all the way up to 20mm, you can use these for everything from chunky pumpkins and baskets to blankets and other oversized fall projects.
Froggod 8 Sizes Large Crochet Hooks Set
Your pumpkins will need to be stuffed for that plump cozy look. Whether or not you are making a small pumpkin for your mantel or a big pumpkin for your bed this stuffing is perfect for it all.
Pillow Stuffing for Crafts and Sewing
Needed for those final details of your crochet pumpkin. Makes the job a lot easier.
Tapestry Needle
These are my favorite begginer friendly youtube videos for crocheting a pumpkin. They make it so easy to follow and each video gives you a little bit different size and style.
How to Crochet Pumpkin | Beginner Friendly Amigurumi tutorial