Harvest Wall Display Ideas
- Make harvest wall displays from found and inexpensive items.Brand X Pictures/Brand X Pictures/Getty Images
Decorating your home with harvest wall displays sets a tone for the fall season and especially for Thanksgiving. You can create harvest-theme wall decorations easily and inexpensively. If you have young children, making wall decorations is both an engaging activity and a way to add a variety of harvest wall décor items to your home. - A fall wreath to hang on a door or a wall lends a festive, welcoming air. For a base, use found materials such as vines. Braid or twist into a circle. If the vines are stiff, soak them in hot water until they are pliable. Or, use a ready-made wreath frame from a craft store. Add dried flowers, leaves, seed pods and grasses to fill in the wreath. At the wreath bottom, attach your most striking group of leaves. To finish, add a raffia or ribbon bow. If your wreath looks sparse, add more dried flowers or pods. If it looks cluttered, remove a leaf or flower at a time until you achieve the look you desire.
- A paper bowl can become a paper pumpkin wall display. Materials to have on hand to make paper pumpkins are some washable or acrylic paint in harvest colors such as gold, brown, red, green and orange, paintbrushes, scissors, hot glue or glue dots, some green felt and raffia ribbon. Cover the work surface with disposable material such as newspaper. Lay each paper bowl on its rim. Paint the outside with orange. While the paint dries, draw and cut pumpkin stems and leaves from the green felt. When the paint is nearly dry, brush line designs on the painted bowl with a darker highlight color such as brown, or add glitter paint for even more shine. To give the pumpkin a top, glue green felt leaves and a stem to the edge. Tie raffia ribbon to the top and hang the pumpkin.
- Fingerprint and handprint projects are fun and memorable children's projects. To make a colorful tree poster in fall colors, you need a poster-size piece of heavy paper stock, scissors, poster paints in brown, orange, tan, red, yellow and green, a colored construction paper mat for framing the poster, and craft glue. Use newsprint or other disposable material to protect your work surface. Spread brown paint on your child's forearm, the palm of his hand and fingers. Have him lay his paint-covered forearm on the paper to make a tree trunk design, and turn his wrist so his painted palm and fingers make the tree branches. Wash the brown paint off his arm and hand. Have him dip a finger into alternate autumn paint colors. As he presses against the paper near the brown branches, the painted fingerprints appear as autumn colored leaves. Add splashes and dabs of green paint for grass beneath the tree. When the paint is dry, glue the mat to the poster to frame it and hang the poster on the wall.
