Fall Activities for Kids
It's finally feeling like fall here! Â The trees are changing colors, the squirrels are hoarding nuts (and oh so entertaining to watch), and the temps are dropping. Â Looking around on Midwest Modern Momma, it's easy to tell Fall is my favorite season. Â There is so much to do, both inside & out, to celebrate the changes occurring in nature and incorporate a little learning along the way!
I may be getting ahead of myself, but I'm ready for autumn.  Chilly nights, red & orange leaves, hot apple cider, corn mazes (I am from Iowa, after all), and pumpkin patches.  Every year, we round up the kids and head to a nearby farm to pick out pumpkins for decorating & I buy quite a few for baking.  The boys love the recipes, jumping in leaves, and all the fun crafts we get to do!  Here are a few of our favorite fall activities!
Fall activities for the family
- Create an autumn yard collage –Â An outdoor collage is a great way to clean up your yard & utilize the vivid colors found in nature. Collect materials that symbolize fall: pumpkins, scarecrows, cornucopias, hay, mums & other fall flowers. Arrange the hay bales to create the background for your collage. Next, set up a scarecrow on a bale of hay & arrange your other materials around him.
- Make a haunted tree – Show your little ones that cleaning up can be fun!  Rake up the leaves & use them to stuff a ghost.  Simply take small white trash bags and stuff half with leaves from your yard. Twist & tie the bag into a knot. Turn it upside down and you have a ghost! Make a bunch & tie them to tree limbs. As the fall winds blow your ghosts will move around, haunting your tree.
- Happy Autumn Cards –Â Create autumn cards for your extended family instead of waiting for Christmas cards. Â Cover the kitchen table & let the kids go crazy with their favorite artistic mediums: stickers, glue & glitter, markers, etc.
Need more ideas? Check out these fun activities I found online & enjoy a chilly fall day as a family!
- Paper Bag Scarecrow Craft
- Leaf Sun Catcher
- Colorful Leaf Printing
- Free Fall Coloring Pages
- Pumpkin Chuckin' Painting
- Edible Jello Craft
- Acorn Painting
- Coffee Filter Leaves of Change
- Laminated Leaf Magnets
- Leaf Threading
For more fall recipes, crafts, decorating, and activity ideas, follow our Fall Pinterest board!
What a great collection of fall activities! Thanks SO much for including my coffee filter leaves!