We love Autumn crafts for kids and being inspired by the colours and natural things around us. We’re lucky enough to have a little oak tree in our garden so we just had to make some acorn crafts of course! These adorable Acorn Mice are super simple to make and just darling!
We loved our first acorn mouse craft so much that we just had to make a whole Acorn Mouse Family! The little mice from this acorn craft project are perfect pocket pals for children and just right for giving as little Fall gifts.
Some of our favourite Autumn crafts have been Colour Mix Garden Lanterns, Autumn Window Films, an Adorable Hedgehog Family and we’ve even been Leaf Sewing! You can see all our fun Nature Inspired Arts and Crafts here.
Supplies For Your Acorn Craft Project – Mouse Family:
- Acorns
- Low Temp Glue Gun
- Acrylic Paint
- Yarn
- Fine brush
How to Make Your Acorn Craft Project – Cute Mouse Family
(Remember acorns are small and pose a choking hazard!)
1 – Choose an acorn and two cups for each mouse craft. Use a low temp glue gun to secure the acorn cups into place to make each mouse’s ears. I love using glue guns for acorn craft projects like this because they set in seconds. (Glue guns can be hot please assist and supervise your children as necessary for their age.)
2 – Cut a length yarn and glue gun that into place too to make the tail. You could give each mouse a different colour perhaps?
3 – Now comes the fun bit. Your mice are ready to come alive with features! We really enjoyed choosing colours and designs to bring out their different personalities. Because the acorn mouse craft is so small you’ll need a fine paint brush. We used these Reeve Acrylic Paints. They’re my favourite set of paints for lots of nature crafts as they have a really good coverage, a great range of colours, and they’re mixable and fast drying too!
For the baby mouse we chose a small acorn for its body and used some little acorns that hadn’t developed properly for his ears. We found loads of them under the Oak tree!
I think this is such a fun Autumn craft for kids…who wouldn’t want to have these little acorn buddies in their pocket?
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Globalmouse says
October 1, 2014 at 12:58 pmAww I love these, super cute. I definitely want to make these!
Nayna Kanabar (@SIMPLYF00D) says
September 27, 2014 at 10:21 pmThese little mice look so very cute.Perfect kids activity.
Shell Louise says
September 26, 2014 at 6:23 pmAwww that baby mouse is so cute! We love acorns. The girls like making acorn bubble blowers 🙂
Jen Walshaw says
September 25, 2014 at 5:29 pmI adore these. They are so, so cute
Stephs Two Girls says
September 24, 2014 at 8:59 pmOh sooo cute! Apparently there’s fewer acorns around this year sadly, but we’ll have to go hunting 🙂
Zena's Suitcase says
September 24, 2014 at 8:45 pmHow cute are these! What a lovely little craft activity
Polly says
September 23, 2014 at 6:56 pmthese are so sweet! We’ll have to go acorn hunting
Donna @OrdCyclingGirl says
September 23, 2014 at 9:49 amVery cute and so simple to do. Now to venture out to find an oak tree…..
Sam Thurley says
September 23, 2014 at 8:08 amThese are just adorable, I only wish I had little ones again. Will be putting this in my Granny file for when I have grandchildren in the future xx xxx
Kara says
September 23, 2014 at 7:20 amThese are adorable – what a great idea!
You Baby Me Mummy says
September 22, 2014 at 9:48 pmAh these look great, very good idea x
nessjibberjabberuk says
September 22, 2014 at 9:42 pmThese are so cute! We pass some oak trees on the walk to school so I’ll be looking out for some acorns.
Nell@PigeonPairandMe.com says
September 22, 2014 at 9:17 pmAwww – so cute! I might make these for my two, and leave them by their beds as a surprise for when they wake up!
Mary Louise says
September 22, 2014 at 8:45 pmI love all of your crafts! I need a glue gun in my life and i need to post more craft based activities on my blog.
Off to check out the Toddler section.
Emma "My Little 3 and Me" Smith says
September 22, 2014 at 8:44 pmGlue guns are THE BEST aren’t they Louisa! Have fun.
Louisa says
September 22, 2014 at 7:07 pmThis is just too cute. We have lots of oak trees in the forest next to us so will collect some and try this out (any excuse to fire up my glue gun)