81 Simple Fall Crafts for Adults to Help You Celebrate the Season in DIY-Style

Choose any color flowers you like to make this simple yet charming wreath.

To make: Make or buy felt flowers and leaves. Hot-glue flowers and leaves to a grapevine wreath form and hang with a length of ribbon.

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Bundle up with an embellished blanket while enjoying cool nights on the front porch.

To make: Topstitch chenille letter and numbers onto the blanket or adhere with iron-on fusible tape.

The neutral tone of this twine wreath makes it the perfect choice if you want a one-and-done wreath for the whole season.

To make: Wrap a wire wreath form in thin jute rope. Cut six long lengths of the same rope you used to wrap the wreath form. Hot-glue one end of three lengths together. Repeat with the second set of three lengths. Braid rope bundles together. Hot-glue braid to the wreath form. Attach an oversize bow, made from upholstery jute webbing, with hot-glue.

Forget the ho-hum glass vase and opt for a vintage football helmet filled to fill with fall blooms. To keep it steady, wrap a 3-inch embroidery hoop with jute ribbon, and center the helmet upside
down on it. Fill a glass vase with water and place in the helmet; add flowers to vase (here, butterfly ranunculus, chamomile, and brown-eyed Susans).

Napkin rings, that is. As the cool weather sets in and sports ramp up set a table with school spirit by using old buttons.

To make: Wrap an unfinished wood ring with thin neutral twine. Open each pin back and thread the spear through a few strands of the twine, then close.

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Turn your favorite collection into spectacular pumpkin decor! Here, inspired by antique brown transferware, pumpkins get a Mod Podge makeover.

To make: Color copy your favorite transferware plates and platters. Tear or cut the copies into strips, about 1/2- to 1-inch wide then use Mod Podge (any finish will work) to attach strips to white pumpkins.

Stack vintage aluminum colanders to create a picture-perfect kitchen display.

To make: Cut pieces of floral foam to fit in the bottom and middle colanders. Push colanders into foam to help them stay in place. Place pumpkins around the bottom and middle colanders and completely fill the top colander. Add bittersweet sprigs throughout.

Pumpkins displayed in vintage glass cloches add a dramatic pop to fall decor. Round out the setting with vase full of fall leaves and a cozy wool blanket for keeping the chill away.

Enjoy this fall wreath on the front door or above the buffet all season long.

To make: Make six to eight bundles of dried wheat and/or dried pampas grass, holding the ends together with brown floral wire. Starting at the bottom, use wire to attach bundles to a beaded wreath form (each subsequent bundle will cover up the wire of the previous bundle). Cover the wire of the last bundle with jute ribbon. Use a second length of ribbon to hang the wreath.

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This display just screams fall! Decorate the front steps or stoop with a menagerie of flat, wide pumpkins and mums perched on crocks.

Take inspiration from a country classic—vintage French grain sacks —for this years pumpkin decor. Display on the front porch, maybe next to a bench with pillows covered in grain sacks, to create a warm fall welcome.

To make: Simply Mod Podge striped ribbon either vertically or horizontally around white pumpkins. Display stacked on pumpkins, benches, or stools.

Greet trick-or-treaters and well-wishers with a wheelbarrow stuffed full of painted on and decoupaged leaf motif pumpkins. Bulk up the display with no extra work by including loads of varying size and color pumpkins

Make decoupage leaf pumpkins: Cut out leaves and flowers from new or vintage wallpaper or wrapping paper. Decoupage to pumpkins using Mod Podge.

Make painted leaf pumpkins: Use a leaf-shaped stencil to paint fall colored leaves on green, blue, or white pumpkins. Once dry use a white paint pen to outline the leaves, add veining, and decorative details.

Using two different types of wheat to create added texture and color to the ubiquitous wheat wreath.

To make: Attach pieces of dried wheat (trimming the ends as needed) to a wooden craft ring with hot-glue, overlapping the pieces as you work your way around the form.

Craft your own personal pumpkin patch using old quilts and fabric scraps. To make, start with a round piece of fabric and a ball of batting (about the size you want your finished pumpkin to be). Gather up the fabric around the batting and hot glue it together in the center. Collect dried stems, or purchase faux stems, and attach with hot glue for a realistic touch. Line the middle of a long farmhouse table with a runner, then pile on your creations and other seasonal greenery. These would be an adorable accent to a mantel or buffet as well.

These DIY shimmering leaves look great on blue-hued or green pumpkins such as Jarrahdale, Blue Doll, Blue Moon, and Fairytale.

Make the pumpkins: Attach silver leaf with sizing to one side of fake or real leaves (alternatively, you can spray paint leaves silver). Once dry, spray adhesive spray on the back of the leaves and attach to pumpkins.

Oak-shaped leaves cut from scraps of fabric get tied up with mini pine cones that have been spray painted gold. Tie around corresponding color napkins for an on-point table setting.

This simple craft, which is perfect for decorating your fall table or front porch, only takes three supplies and just a few minutes to make. If you can’t find bittersweet vine, try using grapevine and attaching berries with hot glue.

Make the pumpkins: Wrap white pumpkins with bittersweet vine, holding it in place with T-pins and hot glue.

Create a grouping of these tabletop topiaries to display as a centerpiece or on a buffet.

Make the nut topiaries: Lightly spray styrofoam craft balls with brown paint. Once dry, hot glue nuts to styrofoam balls in an orderly pattern, as shown. For the walnut topiary, start with a middle equator row and add rows up and down from there. Add hazelnuts to fill any gaps. For the raw almond topiary, start at the top and work your way down, gluing horizontal rows around the perimeter and overlapping slightly for full coverage. Leave space at bottom to rest on top of candlestick bases. Attach with hot glue, as needed.

Make the pumpkin and squash topiaries: Remove stems, except for the top pieces. Stack two pumpkins and secure using small wooden skewers or toothpicks. Skewer the bottom piece and place into crocks filled with floral foam. Cover foam with Spanish moss, and finish with grapevine accents.

The perfect sophisticated decor for greeting guests to your front door. Place directly on the porch or layer on a vintage ladderback chair with different color plaid blankets.

Make the pumpkins: Purchase one large, one medium, and one small pumpkin (any color combo works) that stack nicely. Remove the stems from the large and medium pumpkin. Lightly sketch a vine pattern on a pumpkin with a pencil. Use a linoleum carving tool to etch out the pattern. Once complete attach red berries or beads with hot glue.

The hues of fall are on display in this warm and cozy table setting. Start by cutting a vintage wool blanket into placemats. Drill holes in nuts and thread with wire or twine to create napkin rings. Finally pen guests names on new or vintage wooden spoons to create sweet place cards.