40 Fall Activities for Kids Bucket List

So school has just started again and it seems all the parents are a bit taken aback by how fast the summer went by! Even those without kids can feel the change and feel so bewildered at how the season just changed so fast. It may still be warm outside, but gone are the beach days and lazy summer cookouts from the lack of organized activities for kids. Here is a list of 40 Fall Activities for Kids that you can use as your own autumn bucket list for after-school and weekend fun this season!

40 Fall Activities for Kids Bucket List

Don’t you just love this season? Every year I feel rejuvenated by autumn. The smell, the coolness, everything feels new…it’s just a wonderful time of year. My mom always loved this time of year so very much, so I guess it’s appropriate that she passed away in October. I’ve learned now that it is important to enjoy these little things in life. This is what my mom did. She was in the hospital after brain surgery and she felt so much joy just seeing the sun peek out of the clouds.

Read on for the list of 40 Fall Activities for Kids Bucket List and then print it out and keep it up as a reminder checklist this season!

Fall Bucket List

1. Visit an apple orchard
2. Make apple pie (here’s the best and simplest recipe!)
3. Build a scarecrow stuffed with newspaper
4. Have an apple cider tea partyJump into a leaf pile
5. Paint $1 wooden crafts from craft store
6. Make popcorn balls



7. Create leaf rubbings
8. Stuff leaves into bags that look like pumpkins
9. Make a necklace with Halloween-colored beads
10. Take a hayride
11. Get lost in a corn maze
12. Visit a pick-your-own pumpkin patch
13. Have a pumpkin-carving party
14. Toast the pumpkin seeds from your carved pumpkin



15. Make homemade applesauce
16. Decorate pumpkins with paint, markers or stickers
17. Decorate trick-or-treating bags with spooky faces
18. Dress each other up as toilet paper mummies
19. Use white tissues, a black marker and rubber bands to make miniature ghosts
20. Make caramel apples
21. Host a fall-themed scavenger hunt
22. Attend a local harvest festival



23. Take a drive or a walk to view the colorful foliage
24. Plant spring bulbs
25. Make spider decorations using black construction paper and googly eyes
26. Make a classic handprint turkey
27. Use tissue paper to create “stained glass” windows in fall shapes
28. String popcorn and cranberries into garlands for decorating
29. Create a thankfulness tree for your dining room
30. Make fall slime
31. Bake up these amazing pumpkin muffins
32. Create and play with pumpkin stress balls
33. Make a fall sensory bottle
34. Churn your own homemade butter



35. Make warm spiced tea in crockpot so your house smells amazing!
36. Create some leaf lanterns
37. Decorate with a cat face garland
38. Make pompom pumpkins to hang around the house
39. Make a fall leaf suncatcher
40. Go to your local library and borrow some fall or autumn-themed books like these

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Click here to download the autumn activities checklist!

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