Acorn is just a simple nut but here we have come up with some extraordinary craft ideas for this nut. You would have never imagined that we can turn this tiny nut into some beautiful DIY thing or we can create our acorn nut out of paper. Continue reading this article, you’ll find many interesting crafty projects using acorn. By Utilizing certain things accessible to you at home, we can create many innovative products out of this small nut and some simple things. Try out these activities in your leisure time. Acorn craft ideas for small kids are given as under:-

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Acorn Craft Ideas For Kids

Acorn Dolls

Image Source/Tutorial: Molly Moo Crafts

Materials required:

• Wooden dolls
• Acorn caps
• Colours
• Paintbrushes
• Fabric
• Button
• Sketch pens

Procedure:

• Get some wooden dolls and colour them as shown in the image.
• Wrap the dolls using fabric and buttons by making shrugs out of fabric.
• Draw the eyes, nose and lips using sketch pens.
• Place the acorn caps over the head area.

Acorn Painting

Image Source/Tutorial: Glued To My Crafts

Materials required:-

• Paper
• Googly eyes
• Glue
• Colours
• Glitter tubes
• Brushes

Procedure:-

• Take a plain sheet of paper and draw the shape of an acorn on it.
• Colour this with appropriate colours using painting brushes.
• Paste the googly eyes using glue and draw the lips and cheeks using colours.
• Draw the pattern around the cap area using a glitter tube as shown in the picture above.

Acorn Crystals

Image Source/Tutorial: Rhythms Of Play

Materials required:-

• Acorn caps
• Thread
• Beads
• Needle

Procedure:-

• Take a needle and pass the thread through its hole.
• Using this needle, pass the bead first then the acorn cap through the thread.
• Repeat the same step till you get the desired length of the acorn thread beads.

Acorn Strawberries

Image Source/Tutorial: Crafts By Amanda

Materials required:-

• Acorn
• Colours
• Brushes

Procedure:-

• Take an acorn nut and colour it with pink colour using a Painting brush.
• Draw the black spots of the strawberry using colour and paintbrush as shown in the image.
• Colour the acorn cap using green colour.

Multicoloured Acorn

Image Source/Tutorial: Crafts On Sea

Materials required:-

• Paper
• Colours
• Scissors
• Pencil

Procedure:-

• Take a white sheet of paper and outline acorn on it using a pencil.
• Now cut this outline with the help of scissors.
• Spread the different colours on it using your fingertips as shown in the image.

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Hand Impression Acorn

Image Source/Tutorial: Glued To My Crafts

Materials required:-

• Paper
• Colours
• Brushes
• Glue

Procedure:-

• Take a white sheet of paper and draw leaves on top of it.
• Now apply colour to one of your hands and press it’s an impression on the paper.
• Take a coloured sheet of paper and cut the acorn cap shape out of it.
• Paste this acorn cap-shaped paper using glue over the hand impression in such a way so that only half of the palm is colour with an acorn cap.
• Write down any quote and your name at the bottom of the page as shown in the picture.

Disposable Plate Acorn

Image Source/Tutorial: Craft Create Cook

Materials required:-

• Disposable plate
• Scissors
• Paper
• Glue
• Brushes
• Thread

Procedure:-

• Take a Disposable plate and cut it half into two pieces.
• Now colour these two separate pieces with brown colour.
• Take a paper sheet and cut two triangles out of it.
• Paste the half plate and the triangular paper with each other using glue in such a way so that an acorn shape is created.
• Paste a knot of thread at the acorn cap.

Acorn Mushrooms

Image Source/Tutorial: Twig And Toadstool

Materials required:-

• Acorn
• Colours
• Brushes

Procedure:-

• Collect some acorns. Remove their cap first.
• Colour acorn tops or caps as shown in the image.
• Now take the lower body of the acorn and place it upside down in such a way so that a balance is maintained and it will stand properly.
• Once the bottom balance of the acorn nut body is maintained, place the coloured caps over it.

Hand Acorns

Image Source/Tutorial: Kids Craft Room

Materials required:-

• Paper
• Scissors
• Pencil
• Just thread
• Punching machine
• Glue

Procedure:-

• Take a sheet of paper and trace your Hand on it using a pencil.
• Cut the traced outline of your hand with the help of scissors.
• Take another sheet of paper and cut it according to the shape of the acorn cap.
• Using a punching machine, punch holes on this acorn cap.
• Pass the jute thread through these holes in a Crisscross manner as shown in the image.
• Now paste this cap over the palm area of the paper hand using glue.

Acorn Photo Frame

Image Source/Tutorial: Crafts By Amanda

Materials required:-

• Acorn caps
• Glue
• Photograph
• Cardboard

Procedure:-

• Collect some acorn caps.
• Take any rectangular-shaped cardboard and paste the photograph at the centre of it using glue.
• Now paste the acorn caps around this photograph as shown in the image.

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Cute Acorn Characters

Image Source/Tutorial: Glued To My Crafts

Materials required:-

• Scissors
• Thread
• Buttons
• Fabric
• Paper
• Beads
• Glue
• Ice cream sticks

Procedure:-

• Take the fabric and cut it according to the shape of a leaf.
• Paste this leaf on the Ice-cream stick using glue.
• Now take a paper and draw the acorn on it, also draw its eyes, nose and lips using sketch pens. Paste some beads in the cap area.
• Paste the button at the centre and tie a knot around it using thread as shown in the picture.

Hanging Acorns

Image Source/Tutorial: Adventure In A Box’s

Materials required:-

• Pom poms
• Tree branch
• Thread
• Acorn caps
• Drilling machine

Procedure:-

• Collect some acorn heads or caps.
• Get some pom poms and paste these caps over the pom poms.
• Taka branch of a tree and drill some holes into it using a drilling machine.
• Tie the thread with the acorns made out of cap and pom-poms.
• Now pass these threads into the holes created in the branch.
• Our hanging is ready.

Nut Flowers

Image Source/Tutorial: Crafty Morning

Materials required:-

• Paper
• Glue
• Acorn nuts
• Scissors
• Colour
• Brushes

Procedure:-

• Take some acorn nuts and colour them in different colours.
• Now take a coloured sheet of paper and paste these nuts on it using glue in the shape of a flower.
• Take another sheet of paper and cut the stalk of the flower out of it and paste at its proper place using glue.

Paper Acorn Nut

Image Source/Tutorial: No Time For Flashcards

Materials required:-

• Paper
• Glue
• Sketch pens
• Scissors

Procedure:-

• Take a sheet of paper and draw an acorn on it.
• Using Scissors, cut the outline of the acorn.
• Take some tiny pieces of paper and paste them over the acorn with the help of glue.

Acorn Buttons

Image Source/Tutorial: Glued To My Crafts

Materials required:-

• Paper
• Buttons
• Glue
• Scissors

Procedure:-

• Take a white sheet of paper.
• Take another sheet of paper of different colours and cut it according to the shape of an acorn.
• Paste this acorn cutting over the white sheet of paper.
• Take some buttons of different sizes and shapes and paste them over the cap of the acorn as shown in the image.

Simple Acorn Craft

Image Source/Tutorial: Glued To My Crafts

Materials required:-

• Paper
• Stapler
• Disposable plate
• Glue
• Scissors
• Thread

Procedure:-

• Taka a disposable plate.
• Cut a brown coloured sheet of paper in the form of a semi-circle and paste it with the upper half of the plate using a stapler.
• Cover the remaining area of the bottom of the plate with small pieces of paper.
• Paste these small pieces of paper at the bottom of the plate using glue.
• Cut the outline of your hand out of paper and paste it at the top so that we can hang it using thread.

Here this innovative article ends but we promise to return with much more interesting crafty articles in future. These were mostly simple and budget-friendly crafty ideas that we mentioned above. I hope this one was liked by all. Share your feedback with us in the comments section box. Thank you.

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