Costumes for the Autumn Festival in kindergarten: 30 ideas for boys and girls
Autumn for adults is coffee, a blanket, and beautiful yellow leaves.
Autumn for preschool parents is a message in the parent chat:
«Good evening! Costumes are needed for the morning party. Mariika — Squirrel, Maksym — Mushroom, Sofiika — Autumn. The festival is next Thursday».
And somewhere at this moment, the active search begins: where to find a costume for the Autumn Festival in kindergarten in Kyiv?
In fact, autumn morning parties are some of the most interesting in terms of costumes. You don't have to be just another princess or superhero here. At one party, a Fox, a Tomato, a Sunflower, a Mushroom, and a Zucchini can meet quite organically. And no one even asks any extra questions. 😄
We have collected 30 ideas for children's costumes for the Autumn Festival — from classics to looks that look bright and modern in photos.
🍂 1. The main character of the festival — Autumn
Let's start with the obvious. If your child got the role of Autumn, you definitely shouldn't save on the effect — it is usually one of the central characters of the morning party.
For a girl, dresses in warm shades work well: yellow, gold, orange, burgundy, green. The look is completed by a wreath of leaves, flowers, or berries and small autumn decor.
And no, gluing real maple leaves to a festive dress at 11:40 PM the night before the morning party is no longer necessary. Civilization has moved a little further. 😉
Look ideas:
Beautiful Autumn
Golden Autumn
Autumn Fairy
Autumn Leaf
🍎 2. Fruits and berries
Is the child playing an Apple? Great. A Pear? Also clear.
But when the teacher writes: «Your daughter will be a Blackberry», parents' imagination sometimes takes a little vacation.
That is why ready-made carnival costumes of fruits and berries for children are a very convenient story. You dress the child, add tights or leggings of the right color — and the look is ready.
For the Autumn Festival, the following are suitable:
Apple
Pear
Grape
Strawberry
Cherry
Blackberry
By the way, the costume doesn't necessarily have to look like a huge round berry with arms. For girls, stylized dresses and skirts in matching colors look especially nice.
🥕 3. Vegetables — a classic of the autumn morning party
Here, the imagination of children's party scriptwriters is practically limitless.
Carrot, Beetroot, Cabbage, Pumpkin — these characters have been appearing at autumn festivals for many years and, it seems, are not retiring yet.
Popular vegetable costumes for kindergarten:
Carrot
Tomato
Cucumber
Cabbage
Beetroot
Pumpkin
Corn
And there is an important point here: for a small child, the costume must be not only beautiful but also comfortable.
If a three-year-old Pumpkin cannot sit on a chair, and a Cabbage takes up half the assembly hall — the designer went a bit too far.
🍄 4. Mushrooms
Another immortal hit of children's morning parties.
A Mushroom costume for a boy is one of those looks that is sought after every autumn. Most often, a vest or a cape and a characteristic hat are enough.
But mushrooms can also be different:
Porcini mushroom
Boletus
Fly agaric
The fly agaric, of course, is poisonous. But photogenic. 😄
For a children's party, this is one of the brightest options: the red-and-white hat is immediately visible both on stage and in photographs.
🐿️ 5. Forest animals
If the script takes the children to an autumn forest, you can't do without its inhabitants.
And this, by the way, is a very successful category of costumes: the child can use such a look not only for an autumn festival but also for a New Year's party, a theatrical performance, or a themed event.
Squirrel
Fox
Hedgehog
Bunny
Teddy bear
Wolf
For the youngest children, soft costumes and jumpsuits look especially cute. For older ones, you can choose more stylized looks — vests, skirts, dresses, masks, ears, and tails.
🌻 6. Flowers and plants
Not all roles at the Autumn Festival must have a tail or be edible.
Autumn flowers look great in group performances, and bright costumes are clearly visible from the stage.
Sunflower
Chrysanthemum
Rowanberry
Autumn flower
An especially effective option is a Sunflower costume for a girl: yellow, green, and brown colors combine perfectly with autumn decorations.
And if the teacher just said: «We need an autumn costume»?
Oh, that's actually good.
Because you have a choice.
For the younger group, we would look primarily at simple and recognizable images: Mushroom, Apple, Carrot, Squirrel, Bunny.
For children aged 5–6, you can already choose a more interesting look: Fox, Sunflower, Autumn Fairy, Grape, Fly agaric.
And if you want a costume that will look especially effective in photos, pay attention not only to the character but also to the color. Yellow, orange, red, green, and burgundy look very beautiful against the background of autumn decor.
To buy or rent a costume for the Autumn Festival?
And here it is worth calculating how many times the child plans to be a Beetroot over the next few years.
Most likely — once. 😄
It is for such cases that children's carnival costume rental exists.
There is no need to buy a full-fledged outfit that the child will wear for 40 minutes, and then it will live for several years on the top shelf of the closet next to a box of Christmas decorations.
For rental, it is especially convenient: chose a character → selected the size → booked the required date → used it at the festival → returned it.
And next time the child can be a Fox, a Prince, or a Cactus. Children's scripts are unpredictable.
How to properly choose a children's costume for rent
First of all, look not only at the age but also at the child's height.
Two five-year-old children can differ in height by 10–15 centimeters, so the label «for 5 years» does not guarantee a perfect fit.
Also check:
what exactly is included in the set;
whether an additional T-shirt, shirt, tights, or shoes are needed;
whether it is comfortable for the child to move;
whether the headwear covers the eyes;
whether you can sit comfortably on a chair in the costume.
The last point sounds funny right up to the moment when the morning party begins and twenty little vegetables simultaneously try to sit down. 😄
Where to get a costume for the Autumn Festival in Kyiv?
At Sonechko, you can select and book a children's carnival costume for rent in Kyiv for kindergarten, school, a performance, a photoshoot, or another festival.
The catalog contains costumes of fruits and vegetables, mushrooms, forest animals, flowers, fairy-tale characters, and many other children's looks.
And most importantly — if you were written:
«Good evening. Tomorrow your child is a Zucchini».
Don't panic.
First, check the catalog. 😄
