Free Printable Acorn Templates: Large, Medium & Small
Looking for a free printable acorn template? This PDF collection includes an acorn coloring page, large and medium acorn outlines, and a page of nine small acorn cutouts for fall crafts, classroom displays, stencils, writing activities, and decorations.
Choose the acorn size that best fits your project, then have the complete PDF sent to your inbox using the form near the bottom of the post. You can print one page or select several sizes for a coordinated fall activity.
The simple outlines are easy to color, trace, cut, paint, collage, or decorate with natural materials. They work well for preschool and elementary activities, but they can also be used for scrapbooking, banners, party decorations, and seasonal displays.
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What’s Included in the Acorn Template PDF
- Large acorn coloring page: One oversized acorn with plenty of open space for crayons, paint, collage materials, or patterns.
- Large acorn outline: A roomy template for writing activities, faces, bulletin boards, and larger craft projects.
- Medium acorn templates: Multiple acorns on one page for garlands, classroom labels, and matching activities.
- Small acorn templates: Nine acorns on one page for counting, sorting, collages, scrapbooks, and small decorations.
Acorn Template Size Guide
- Large templates: Best for coloring pages, story writing, painting, playdough mats, window decorations, and individual student projects.
- Medium templates: Useful for banners, bulletin boards, name labels, classroom displays, cards, and craft stations.
- Small templates: Ideal when you need several acorn cutouts for counting games, collages, table decorations, or scrapbook pages.
Acorn Craft Ideas
These printable acorn outlines can become much more than coloring pages. Children can color them with crayons or markers, paint them with watercolors, cover them with torn paper, or use decoupage techniques to create textured fall designs.
- Glue brown and yellow leaves onto the acorn cap and color the lower section brown.
- Fill the outline with small pieces of tissue paper, construction paper, or magazine pictures.
- Add a face, yarn hair, and paper accessories to create an acorn character.
- Laminate a large template and use playdough to cover or outline the acorn shape.
- Decorate several acorns in different styles and string them together as a fall garland.
Classroom and Bulletin Board Ideas
Teachers can use the different sizes together for a fall bulletin board or classroom door. Give each child a large acorn to decorate, then surround the finished projects with medium and small acorn cutouts.
The open space inside the large acorn also works for names, sight words, vocabulary, gratitude prompts, short stories, or facts about oak trees. Small acorns can be numbered for counting and ordering activities, while medium acorns can serve as labels or writing-prompt cards.
How to Make Acorn Cutouts and Reusable Stencils
- Print the acorn outline on regular paper for a one-time craft or on cardstock for a sturdier pattern.
- Cut around the outside edge carefully. Adults can prepare the shapes for younger children.
- For a reusable tracing template, laminate the cardstock acorn before cutting it out.
- Place the finished template on paper, felt, cardboard, or another craft material and trace around the edge.
- Repeat the tracing process to create as many matching acorn shapes as your project requires.
If you want to paint with the template, secure it gently so it does not move and use a small amount of paint. Lifting the template straight up helps keep the edges clean.
How to Print the Acorn Template PDF
The high-quality template PDF is sent by email through the form below. Printing from the PDF—rather than right-clicking one of the preview images—keeps the acorn outlines sharp and prevents blurry results.
- Open the PDF and select only the template pages you want to use.
- Choose Actual Size or 100% when you want the templates at their intended dimensions.
- Use regular printer paper for coloring and simple cutting projects.
- Use cardstock for tracing patterns, banners, stencils, or decorations that need extra strength.
- Print one test page before making multiple classroom copies.
Printable Acorn Templates
Free Acorn Coloring Page
This large acorn coloring page has plenty of open space for crayons, markers, paint, dot markers, or collage materials. It is also a good choice for a single-page fall art project.
Large Acorn Printable Template
Use the large acorn template when children need room to write, draw a face, add patterns, or attach textured craft materials. Its size makes it especially useful for bulletin boards and window displays.
Medium Acorn Templates
The medium acorns provide several shapes on one page while still leaving enough space for decorating. Use them for banners, cards, labels, classroom games, and small group craft projects.
Small Acorn Templates
The small-acorn page contains nine shapes, making it convenient for projects that need many acorn cutouts. Try them in fall collages, counting activities, scrapbook layouts, table decorations, or matching games.
More Free Fall Templates and Crafts
Build a complete fall activity collection with our corn templates, pumpkin templates, and leaf templates. For an acorn-themed pairing, try the squirrel coloring pages or our paper-bag squirrel craft.
Acorn Template FAQ
The collection contains large, medium, and small acorn templates. It also includes a large coloring page and a sheet with nine small acorns.
Regular printer paper works well for coloring and basic cutting. Cardstock is better for reusable patterns, banners, stencils, and crafts that need to hold their shape.
Yes. Adjust the scale percentage in your printer settings to make a template smaller. Print a test page first, since resizing changes the finished dimensions.
Yes. You may print as many copies as you need for your own home or classroom. The templates may not be sold, redistributed, or used commercially.
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What will you make with your printable acorns? Share your idea in the comments to inspire other readers.
Thank you for the free downloadable acorn. I will have my kindergarten students color and cut one out, then we will glue a picture of themselves inside of their acorn for the bulletin board. A writing activity about what they love, or don’t love, about fall will be alongside their acorn and picture. This will be perfect for small motor skills, writing, and social/ emotional activities. So much to integrate with one acorn!
That sounds like a wonderful idea! Im so glad you are using them!
I teach a children’s class at my church. I love having the printables for fun and easy projects for the kids. Thank you for sharing.
i like your templates
I’m glad you’re enjoying them!