10 Fall Tiered Tray Decor Ideas – Easy DIYs

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Happy Fall block letters on a tiered tray with fall florals, orange and yellow oak leaves and tiny pumpkin picks and a decorative small wicker basket filling up the space to the back of the tray.

Beautiful Fall crafts for your tiered tray.

Decorate a tiered tray for Fall with these easy craft ideas! Make everything from a cute mini paintbrush scarecrow to farmhouse signs. Before getting started, be sure to measure your tiered tray and adjust the size of these crafts to fit!

1. Fall Mini Cutting Board Sign

Grab a small charcuterie board to make this cute Fall Mini Cutting Board sign. Decorate it with a wood slice or wood round painted pumpkin, and add lettering from the dollar store or craft store. I found this charcuterie board at Target. It’s 5″ wide x 10″ tall.

Fall Mini Cutting Board featured on tiered tray, finished with beaded tassel.
Fall Mini Cutting Board

2. Thumbtack Studded Pumpkins

Bling out foam pumpkins with metal thumbtacks. You can use spray paint or chalk paint mini foam pumpkins white (if needed). Next, push thumbtacks or decorative upholstery tacks into your pumpkin to create a design.

Photo of two white foam pumpkins decorated with gold thumbtacks placed on a tiered tray with greenery in the background.
Thumbtack Studded Pumpkins

3. Wine Cork Frame

You’ll need about 30 wine corks (more or less depending on the size of your tiered tray) to make this free-standing picture frame. Just hot glue the corks together and add twine or ribbon to hold a photo or Fall message. If you need a little inspiration, download, and print these Free Fall Printables.

Frame made out of 30 wine corks with Happy Fall sign on front.
Wine Cork Frame

4. Pumpkin Candy Jar

To make a pumpkin candy jar, cut the top off of a small foam pumpkin and glue it to a mason jar lid (or a small salsa jar as I did here). Fill it with candy and add it to your fall tray or to give as gifts.

Pumpkin candy jar on tiered tray filled with candy corn and caramels.
DIY Pumpkin Candy Jar

5. Mini Fall Leaves Topiary

This fall leaves topiary is a mini version of a slightly larger topiary that I made for a table centerpiece. To give this smaller topiary a fall feel, I decided to wrap the Styrofoam base with pages from an old book. Find the full Fall leaves topiary tutorial here.

Photo of a mini topiary tree made with fall leaves. Shown sitting on a tiered tray.
Mini Fall Leaves Topiary

6. Paintbrush Scarecrow

Grab your hot glue gun and a few supplies to make this cute paintbrush scarecrow. Here I used a 2.5-inch chip brush from the hardware store, a 1-inch (flat-sided) wood bead for the nose, 2.5-inch wide burlap ribbon for the hat— wrapped around the front and glued at the back. Last, I added a few raffia sprigs underneath the hat. Optional: finish with wood bead garland and any decorations you like.

Scarecrow made out of a dollar paintbrush. Decorated with burlap for a hat with a sunflower at the top and half of a bead for a nose. Attached to a string of natural wood beads and photographed on a dark wood table.
Paintbrush Scarecrow

7. Decorative Caramel ‘Pumpkin’ Apples

Craft small foam pumpkins into cute caramel apples that are perfect for a fall tiered tray! Find the full caramel ‘pumpkin’ apples tutorial here.

Faux Caramel Pumpkin Apples - Vertical feature image
Faux Caramel ‘Pumpkin’ Apples

8. Thread Spool Garland in Fall Colors

Grab some old wood spools or buy a few new ones here to make this cute garland. Just wrap a few thread spools with fall-colored yarn and string onto twine with wood beads between. Make tassels out of twine and yarn to decorate the ends.

Thread spool garland made using mini thread spools and wood beads in fall colors. Photo on a dark wood background.
Thread Spool Garland

9. Ball of Twine Pumpkins

This fall-tiered tray DIY couldn’t be easier. Add a cork to the center of a ball of twine and decorate with ribbon and leaves.

Two balls of twine are made into pumpkins by adding white ribbon and burlap cut into leaves with a cork for a stem.
Ball of Twine Pumpkins

10. Pumpkin Spice Sachets

These sachets smell wonderful and make a great addition to any tiered tray. Find the full pumpkin spice sachets tutorial here.

Pumpkin spice sachet, closeup shot on tiered tray. Pumpkin is mesh filled with potpourri and a cinnamon stick for the pumpkin stem. Shown sitting in a stack of small white bowls on a tiered tray.
Pumpkin Spice Sachet

11. DIY Word Blocks

These rustic word blocks are perfect for fall tiered trays and small shelves. Mix and match seasonal words, then swap them out as the seasons change. Find the full DIY and templates here.

Photo of a decorated three tiered tray with four DIY Farmhouse Wood Signs with Leaf graphics and Happy Fall Signs.
Star divider used has two hand drawn lines with a star in the center, used as a content break and signals new or different content below. This doodle style illustration is in a medium charcoal gray.

– MORE TO EXPLORE –

Fall Wire Basket + DIY Sign Ideas + Upcycled Christmas Decor

Easy Fall Wire Basket Makeover with Pom Poms - a gold Dollar Tree round wire basket with gold, cream, rust and raffia textured pom poms on the front shown on white background filled with two white coffee mugs, specialty coffee pods and a foil box of truffles to give as a gift basket.
Round man in the moon sign - Vintage style stenciled sign with a black cat singing, sitting on a knotty branch with pumkins below. The moon man face take up more than 3/4 of the round sign with the cat in the left corner. The colors are light gray for the moon, darker gray for the man face on the moon and black silhouette style for the cat scene. This fall sign was stenciled using cut stencil vinyl cut on a Cricut Maker 3.
Shown is an old wood crate and thrift store items I collected to upcycle into Christmas decor items to sell in my antique booth! There are florals, an old red handle strainer, a tin box, tart tins, and a vintage chalk board.
Easy Fall Wire Basket Makeover with Pom Poms - a gold Dollar Tree round wire basket with gold, cream, rust and raffia textured pom poms on the front shown on white background filled with two white coffee mugs, specialty coffee pods and a foil box of truffles to give as a gift basket.
Fall Wire Basket
Round man in the moon sign - Vintage style stenciled sign with a black cat singing, sitting on a knotty branch with pumkins below. The moon man face take up more than 3/4 of the round sign with the cat in the left corner. The colors are light gray for the moon, darker gray for the man face on the moon and black silhouette style for the cat scene. This fall sign was stenciled using cut stencil vinyl cut on a Cricut Maker 3.
DIY Sign Ideas
Shown is an old wood crate and thrift store items I collected to upcycle into Christmas decor items to sell in my antique booth! There are florals, an old red handle strainer, a tin box, tart tins, and a vintage chalk board.
Upcycled Christmas Decor

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