16+ Fall: Craft Ideas
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Get crafty this fall with natural, sustainable fall craft ideas. From essential oil diffuser bracelets to homemade dipped candles, you’ll love making your own useful, beautiful home goods this season.
We're a summer girl through and through, but it’s hard not to get excited for all that fall has to offer!
Every year, as the leaves change and the weather cools down, we can’t wait to start lighting candles, playing cozy music, and get crafting.
Our daughter and we love to craft, and we’ll often invite friends and family to join us. Over the years, we’ve worked on quite a few awesome projects together! One being our fall air fresheners! But today we are getting pretty creative, so settle in and let’s get started!
If you have the crafting itch this fall, we have lots of exciting ideas for you. See our list below of fall craft ideas. You’ll find everything from jewelry to candles to body scrubs!
Why You’ll Love These Crafts
- Affordable: These crafts are not only affordable to make, but many of them will actually save you money. By making your own natural candles, soap, or bath bombs, you can avoid paying for pricey store-bought options!
- Natural: Every craft we share is made with 100% natural ingredients. You can feel good about the ingredients that are going on your skin and in your air.
- Sustainable: Making useful, natural crafts is eco-friendly! The ingredients are sustainable, and you can reuse different containers and supplies rather than purchasing new.
- Great for all ages: Don’t get me wrong, we love making paper crafts and gluing leaves together with our kids. But when we're planning a girls’ night or want some crafts that have a little more utility, this is what we're looking for! These crafts are fun and functional for adults, and most of them are still easy enough for the kids to get involved.
Rosemary Mint Candles
These rosemary mint soy candles smell incredible and are made without any artificial fragrance or synthetic wax. With our simple crockpot method, making them is easy and mess-free! Is there anything more cozy than lighting a scented candle as the weather gets cooler?
DIY Coffee Candles
These candles make a lovely gift for all of the coffee-lovers in your life. We always find myself craving coffee as fall approaches, and the smell filling our home is so comforting. These coffee candles give your home a mild coffee smell, and the coffee beans in the jar are simply charming!
Candle Wax Melts
If pets or children make lit candles a bit too dangerous, homemade wax melts are the perfect solution! You can customize the shape, scent, and wax variety when you make your own wax melts, and it is such an easy craft.
Hand-Dipped Candles
They make a beautiful centerpiece on our dinner table, and they’re a great all-natural alternative to store-bought taper candles. Our kids and we had so much fun making these hand-dipped candles. Dipping candles is such a relaxing way to spend time with friends or family!
DIY Wax Air Fresheners
Another flameless way to scent your air, these wax air fresheners release the scent as they sit; no warmer required. You’ll have a blast choosing your dried flowers and mold shapes, and the air fresheners will make a sweet decoration around your house!
Homemade Stovetop Potpourri
Learn how to make a stovetop potpourri for yourself or as a lovely handmade gift. Stovetop potpourri is a fun and cozy way to scent your home naturally in the fall and winter. It smells even better when you add some essential oils!
DIY Dried Potpourri
Get creative by choosing different colors and textures for your potpourri and making a one-of-a-kind scent. This is a great craft for kids and adults alike. Did you know you can make your own potpourri scented with all-natural essential oils?!
Essential Oil Diffuser Ornaments
Once your new ornaments are dry, drop essential oils on them for a simple but effective diffuser. Get ready for Christmas or make some rustic window hangings with this essential oil diffuser ornament tutorial. You can get creative with your shapes and even paint your ornaments for a more involved craft.
Essential Oil Diffuser Necklace
These essential oil diffuser necklaces are a great craft for a girls’ night, and they make lovely gifts for the women in your life. Made with absorbent clay, they allow you to add essential oils to have aromatherapy right on your neck all day long.
Essential Oil Diffuser Bracelet
A different take on the essential oil diffuser jewelry, these bracelets are lovely and useful. You can start by making your own clay beads, then thread up a bracelet with whichever accent beads you like. It’s an engaging craft that you’ll get a lot of use out of! And if you are still dealing with bugs, you can even turn it into an insect repellent bracelet.
Essential Oil Reed Diffuser
Reed diffusers are as beautiful as they are useful, and making your own is a fun and easy project! They diffuse all of your favorite fall essential oil blends through the wooden reeds, making a long-lasting diffuser that doesn’t use any electricity. You’ll have fun choosing a lovely bottle and making unique essential oil blends!
Homemade Beeswax Wraps
Beeswax wraps are one of our favorite simple swaps for cutting back on waste in the kitchen. We like using scrap fabric to make them, especially since it gives leftover material a practical second use.
Instead of constantly reaching for plastic wrap, we can reuse these over and over again for covering bowls, wrapping snacks, or storing leftovers. They’re easy to make, practical to keep on hand, and fit perfectly into a more reusable kitchen routine.
Pumpkin Spice Soap Bars
It’s the perfect seasonal soap to have in the bathroom this fall. With cute pumpkin and leaf shapes and a delicious pumpkin spice scent, you just might want to make this soap year-round. You’ll have all the autumn feels after making this 20-minute pumpkin spice soap!
Soap on a Rope
This soap on a rope is an easy melt and pour recipe that is endlessly customizable. Add a string to the soap bar, and you have a handy, all-natural soap to use and gift. Making your own soap is the ultimate craft that is both enjoyable and rewarding.
Fall Body Scrubs
Make one of each and savor all the season has to offer! These 3 fall body scrubs are so cozy and fun to use! They gently exfoliate your skin, leaving it soft, smooth, and refreshed. We have a recipe for pumpkin spice scrub, gingerbread scrub, and apple spice scrub, and they all smell incredible.
Homemade Sugar Scrub Bars
Add your choice of colors and scents, and be sure to make extras for gifting. These sugar scrub bars are a blast to make and such a pleasure to use. Your skin feels incredible after exfoliating with a homemade sugar scrub bar!
Ultimate Relaxing Bath Bombs
Anyone who loves baths will enjoy a relaxing bath bomb! These are perfect for relaxing on chilly nights, and making them is a treat in itself. These homemade bath bombs have dried lavender and lavender essential oil to give you the most soothing bath ever. If you have kids, get them involved and make our homemade rainbow bath bombs for kids, too!
Homemade Pine Tar Soap
No floral scents here, just a bold, masculine bar that smells like it was made for him (because, well, it was). This soap is, without a doubt, perfect for the man in your life! This is the one soap in the house that our husband actually claims as his.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long do these crafts take?It definitely depends a lot on the craft, but most of them take 15-30 minutes once your supplies are assembled. If you want a lengthier crafting day, you can make more than one or focus on a more involved craft, like the soap on a rope or hand-dipped candles.
Where do you get the ingredients for these DIY crafts?Some of them you can get at a craft store or health food store, but the most widely available source is Amazon. We have all of our go-to ingredients listed in our Amazon storefront.
Do you have any more soap recipes?Yes! We LOVE making soap, and we share a lot of different recipes on here. A few of our favorites are cold process herbal soap or melt and pour loofah soap. You can find a full list in our homemade soap recipes post.
Let me know which one you are going to try in the comments, and if you loved it, we'd be so grateful if you’d leave a 5-star review on the recipe. Happy crafting! We hope these fall craft ideas sparked your creativity and got you excited for the season!
