Looking for some fun fall activities? Here are a variety of suggestions for things to do in the fall. These activities also help you and your children spend quality time together after school and on weekends.
- Take a nature hike with your children. This is a great opportunity for your children to collect leaves for a special leaf project. It’s also a perfect time for you and your children to talk about their day/week at school.
- Plant bulbs with your children to enjoy next spring.
- Go on a hayride to a pumpkin patch and have your children pick their own pumpkins.
- Make corn husk puppets with your children.
- Go horseback riding on a scenic trail.
- Wander through an apple orchard or pumpkin patch. Pick apples, make apple cider or pumpkin pie from the stash you bring home.
- Check out fall-themed books from the library and read with your children. You read some to them, they read some to you.
- Create a scarecrow from leaves, straw and old used clothes.
- Help your children press fresh fall leaves and make a pressed leaf scrapbook.
- Bike through a national forest with your children.
- Take a canoe ride by colorful fall scenery.
- Visit a local fall craft fair, Oktoberfest or farmer’s market.
- Show your children how to create a summer memories scrapbook filled with photos and mementos from last summer.
- Have your children rake leaves from your yard into a big pile and jump in them!
- Let your children finger-paint a fall scene on construction paper. They can even make fall-themed cards for friends and family.
- Make a fall wreath using collected leaves, pine cones, acorns and paper plates and hang it on your front door to greet visitors.
- During a walk in the woods, look for animal tracks and help your children identify them.
- Take your children to a football game.
- Make smores in a fire pit on a cool fall night