Kids will love making these beautiful and truly unique Indian Corn Crafts using mum flowers and cardboard. This corn craft for kids makes a lovely decoration for fall, Thanksgiving, or any time of the year. Plus, this fall craft for preschoolers is such an easy autumn crafts for kids in preschool, pre-k, toddler, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd grade students.
Indian Corn Craft
Corn and mums are two things you see often in the fall. Both corn and mums are used for decorations and crafts, especially as a thanksgiving corn craft! Corn is typically harvested late August or early fall. Mums can be seen budding in the same timeframe. You will begin to see mums bloom in the fall with vibrant colors such as orange, yellow, pink, and purple. Have you ever thought of combining corn and mums? The effect of this flower corn crafts is truly quite beautiful and a lovely decoration your toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, grade 1, and grade 2 students to make.
Corn Crafts for Preschool
This activity uses cardboard to create a corn shape, while the blooms on mums become beautiful kernels! This activity is really easy to set up! It requires minimal supplies. You probably have these supplies in your house right now! Use this activity with your preschooler, kindergartener, or elementary age kiddos. This activity provides not onlt a great fine motor workout but it exposes kids to the many beautiful colors that both corn and mums can have!
The best part about this activity? You can reuse the cardboard shape over and over again!
Fall Craft for Toddlers
To create your Cardboard and Mum Corn, you will need:
- Cardboard
- Mum blooms (with stems)
- Pencil
- Green paper
- Scissors
- Glue stick
Draw a basic corn shape on your cardboard with your pencil. Now cut out the corn shape. Trace around the cardboard corn on your green paper. Cut out the green corn shape.
Flower Crafts for Kids
Remove the center of the green piece to create the husk of the corn. It will be on the outside perimeter of the corn cob. See picture for more.
Glue the husk to the outer portion of the cardboard with a glue stick.
Using the sharp end of a pencil or a pointy object such as a skewer, poke holes in the cardboard. The holes need to be large enough to hold a mum stem.
Fall Crafts for Preschoolers
Pick the mums off the stems, leaving a piece of the stem to insert into the cardboard. Have the child place them randomly to appear as corn kernels.
Autumn Crafts for Kids
Enjoy this activity! The results are always beautiful!
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This makes such a lovely fall art projects.
This makes a particularly fun thanksgiving craft for kids to make to decorate the home for the holiday dinner.
If you like this activity, you may enjoy these other flower activities:
Leaf Crafts for Kids
Looking for more fun fall craft projects? Check out these fun ideas:
- Autumn Watercolor Salt Painting Leaf Craft
- Crayon Resist Fall Leaf Art
- EASY Fall Leaf Crafts for Preschoolers
- Stunning Suncatcher Fall Leaves Craft for Preschoolers and Kids
- Lots of Fall Crafts for kids of all ages
- Edible Candy Corn Playdough
Fall Crafts for Kids
- Fall Crafts for Preschoolers
- Printable Hat Fall Craft for Preschool
- Wreath Fall Craft with free printable leaves template
- Fall Leaf Printing Activity for kids with markers
- Cute Cereal Fall Tree Craft for Kids
- Styrofoam Peanut Fall Tree Craft
- 100+ Fall Crafts for Kids
- Kadinsky Inspired Fall Leaf Art Project
Fall Printables
- Scarecrow Printable CVC Word Mats Fall Activities for Kindergarten
- FREE Fall Worksheets for Kindergarten
- Printable Scarecrow Pronoun Game
- Scarecrow Worksheets Pack with 50+ pages of math and literacy skills
- Fall Sequencing Cards and Sequencing Worksheets
- Learning Colors Printable Fall Games
- Letter Matching Leaf Printable Activity
- Fall Worksheets Pack with 50+ pages of math and literacy skills
- Fall Theme or Fall Theme Preschool
- Cute Fall Playdough Mats
- Fall Do a Dot Printables
- Color Word Fall Worksheets
- Fall Books for Preschoolers,these fall picture books, or these fall books for kids
- Simple Fall Coloring Pages
Fall Activities for Kindergarten
- Alphabet Fall Printable
- Scarecrow Short O Words Printable
- Fall Sight Words Game
- Alphabet Candy Corn Math Puzzles – Fall Activities for Kindergarten
- Nonsense Words Fall Activities for Kindergarten
- Color by Letter Fall Worksheets
- Squirrel Fall Worksheets for kids
- Cute Fall Worksheets for Preschoolers
- Nature Fall Scavenger Hunt or this Fall Leaf Scavenger Hunt
- Beginning Blends Fall Activity
- Syllable Clip Cards Fall Activity for Kindergarten
- Free Fall Writing Prompts
- Leaf Alphabet Letters Matching Activity
- Color Words Fall Emergent Reader
- Fall Science ideas for kids
- EASY Why do Leaves Change Color Experiment
- Fall I Spy Printable
- September Activities for Kids
Fall Math
- Counting Fall Worksheets for Preschoolers
- Fall Playdough Mats – Counting Leaves
- Skip Counting Fall Math Worksheets
- My Fall Counting Book – Fall Activity for Kindergarten
- Fall Nubmer Words Donut Worksheets
- Fall Counting Book for Pre-K
- Acorn Counting Game
- Multiplication Candy Corn Math or Addition/Subtraction Candy Corn Math Puzzles or Candy Corn Fall Math Number Puzzles
- Count and Clip Fall Math Activities for Preschoolers (or this pumpkin set)
- Fall Math Counting Crows Activity
- Addition Fall Worksheets with Stickers (sticker alphabet fall worksheets or number recognition fall worksheets or color recognition fall worksheets)
- Fall Activities sorting pretty leaves by shape
- Printable Fall Number Game for Preschoolers
- Fall Color by Number
- Number Tracing Fall Worksheets
Pumpkin Activities for Kids
- Phonics Printable Pumpkin Activities
- Pumpkin Activities Printable Shape Matching Game
- Parts of a Pumpkin Craft
- Pumpkin kindergarten sight word games online
- Number Bonds Pumpkin Math
- Pumpkin Matching Game
- October Crafts for Kids
- Counting Free Pumpkin Activity Printables
- Candy Count and Trace Pumpkin Activities
- Pumpkin Printables Counting Mats
- Learning Shapes Pumpkin Playdough Mats
- Word Family Pumpkin Activities
- Shape Game – Pumpkin Activities for Preschoolers
- Counting Spider Activities
- Pumpkin Traceable Letters
- Printable Pumpkin Math for Kindergartners
- Letter Find Pumpkin Worksheets
Apple Activities for Kids
- Find the Letter Apple Worksheets
- Number Apple Coloring Pages
- Apple Sight Words Tree
- Apple Browning Experiment with FREE Oxidation Worksheet
- Stunning, Easy Apple Craft for Preschoolers and Kids
- Fun Paper Plate Apple Craft for kids
- Easy Apple Core and torn paper Paper Plate Apple Craft
- Hole-Punching, Count to 20 Apple Activities for Preschoolers – free printable
- Alphbet Puzzles – Apple Activities for Preschoolers
- A is for Apple Printable Book for working on beginning sounds – print in black and white or color
- Skittles Apple Science Experiment for Kids
- Free Printable Apple Experiment Worksheet
- Yellow Fluffy Apple SLime
- Scented Apple Playdough Recipe
- Paper Plate Apple Craft for Preschoolers
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