This free printable fall garland is a whole harvest on a string: a pumpkin with its curly vine, corn stalks, fall leaves and acorns, a friendly scarecrow, a basket of apples, sunflowers, a wheelbarrow of squash, canning jars, and the red tractor pulling a hay wagon, plus a Pilgrim girl and boy for Thanksgiving. Print it in watercolor or in black and white for children to color, then cut, punch, and hang it.
There are two sets: in color, ready to hang, and color your own, in black and white for children to color. Click any pieces you like from either set. You can even mix them.
Pictures print blank? Click Accept and continue on the cookie bar at the bottom of the page, then print again.
Use white 65 lb cardstock. Choose Actual size or Scale 100%, and turn off headers and footers. Cut on the gray lines, punch the two circles with a ¼ inch hole punch, and string the pieces on twine or ribbon.
Little ones can color, and a grown-up can help with the cutting. The smooth cut line goes quickly, and older children can cut out their own pieces.
Choose "Color your own" to print the same pieces as black and white outlines. Children color them with crayons, colored pencils, or markers, then cut them out.
Teachers: give each child one piece to color. String them all together, and the whole class has made one long harvest garland for the room. It's a fine project for a fall science unit on seeds and harvest, or for the week before Thanksgiving.
Fall is harvest time, and every piece on this garland comes from the garden or the farm: pumpkins and winter squash, corn stalks, sunflowers gone to seed, a basket of carrots, beets, and potatoes, apples from the orchard, and a hay wagon pulled by the old red tractor.
The canning jars belong here too. Tomatoes, peaches, and green beans put up in September taste like summer all winter long. See our canning vegetables guide, and label your jars with our free printable canning jar labels.
Save a few seeds with children. Scoop the seeds from a pumpkin, rinse them, and dry them on a paper towel for next year's garden, or let the sunflower heads dry and save the biggest seeds. Tuck them into our free printable seed packets. Fall is also the time to plant garlic and tuck the garden in for winter; our winter vegetable gardening guide tells what keeps growing in the cold.