50 Fun Activities for Fall (Free Printable)
It may be hard to believe it, but fall officially starts this Friday. The year is nearly ¾ over! But the remaining quarter packs lots of potential for making great memories, if we’re intentional about doing so.
Start by making a list of the activities you don’t want to miss, then check them off as you go. If you are drawing a blank, here are 50 of our family’s favorite things to do during the fall season, plus a few new activities we plan to try this year:
50 Fun Family Activities for Fall
1 – Visit a farm or a pumpkin patch
2 – Attend a fall festival
3 – Go for a drive through the country
4 – Admire the changing colors
Head to the Northeast for the most spectacular displays.
5 – Change batteries in your smoke alarms
6 – Stage a family fire drill
7 – Read Pilgrim Stories
I used to read this collection aloud to my children every autumn as part of our homeschool studies.
8 – Build a bird or squirrel feeder
9 – Go to the State Fair
Eat a corny dog or funnel cake and enjoy some fresh-squeezed lemonade while you’re hear.
10 – Compete in a creative arts competition
Our kids win a bundle of ribbons and premiums by entering their arts and craft projects in the East Texas State Fair every year.
11 – Play Bananagrams or Scrabble
We love word games — and these are two of our favoirites!
12 – Attend a high school football game
13 – Stuff a shoebox
Consider hosting a Shoebox Stuffing Party for Operation Christmas Child
14 – Go on a scavenger hunt
We have printables for all kinds of scavenger hunts: Scavenger hunts you can play outside or right at home, around the neighborhood or with a camera or even with your Bible.
15 – Make homemade granola or trail mix
Drench it in milk and eat with a spoon or eat it dry as a healthy snack.
16 – Go to a drive-in movie
If you can’t find an outdoor theater near you, hang up a sheet in your backyard and gather there for a family movie.
17 – Take a family photo
Check out these 6 tips for taking portraits you’ll be proud of.
18 – Find your way through a corn maze
19 – Plant bulbs for spring
Fall is the season to plant tulips, daffodils, narcissus, etc.
20 – Watch a cranberry harvest
If you can’t see it in person, watch a YouTube video — it’s facinating!
21 – Write a thank you note
You can even print your own thank you cards from our website. Then, when you’re finished writing them, stamp, seal, and drop them in the mail, or deliver it by hand.
22 – Pass out treats + tracts for Halloween
In addition to to really good candy, print some of our Halloween tracts to give to trick-or-treaters
23 – Invite a lonely college student for Thanksgiving
24 – Sing praise songs around a campfire
If you can strum along on a guitar, so much the better. If not, just sing acapella.
25 – Feast as Pilgrims and Indians
26 – Make popcorn balls
27 – Clean house with all the windows open
28 – Rake leaves
If you have a lot of leaves, you can rake a maze through them first for playing tag.
29 – Watch Dan in Real Life
Another family favorite!
30 – Jump in a leaf pile
31 – Run a Turkey Trot or 5K
32 – Carve a pumpkin
Get one for everyone and stage a pumpkin carving contest. Give prizes prettiest, funniest, scariest, most unusual, etc.
33 – Build a bonfire
34 – Start a leaf collection
Or use your leaves for cool craft projects.
35 – Work a jigsaw puzzle
36 – Go mountain biking
Pack plenty of water if you plan to ride far.
37 – Roast pumpkin seeds
38 – Pick apples at an orchard
39 – Watch Martin Luther
What more fitting way to celebrate Reformation Day than to watch a biopic of the man who started it all?
40 – Sing A Mighty Fortress
Martin Luther wrote this beloved hymn.
41 – Learn the Five Solas
Salvation is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone according to Scripture alone for the glory of God alone!
42 – Bake a pecan pie
43 – Visit a science museum
44 – Make pumpkin bread
…or maybe pumpkin muffins or even pumpkin chocolate chip cookies.
45 – Bake an apple crisp
… or apple pie, apple turnovers, or apple cobbler.
46 – Read D’Aulaire’s Columbus
Or, at a very minimum, read what Columbus himself had to say about his purpose and calling.
47 – Make cranberry sauce
48 – Camp out under the stars
49 – Make s’mores
For an extra-special treat, try one of our yummy s’more variations.
50 – Shell pecans
That should keep us busy for at least a couple of months! Click on the image or button below to download a free printable version of this list. What are your favorite fall activities? Anything you’d add to our list?
Print More of Our Bucket Lists
Once you’ve finished doing the activities that interest you on our “50 Frugal Ideas for Family Fun” list, try another of our free printable bucket lists.
- Spring Bucket List: 50 Fun Ideas for Spring
- Summer Bucket List: 50 Things to Do for Summer Fun
- Winter Bucket List: 50 Things to Do for Winter Fun
- Holiday Bucket List: 50 Fun Things for Your Family to Do this Christmas
- Back to Nature Bucket List: 50 Ways to Enjoy the Great Outdoors
- Economical Bucket List: 50 Frugal Ideas for Family Fun
- Edible Bucket List: 50 Wholesome, Quick, and Easy Snacks
Another Great Autumn Activity
If you’d like to kindle more gratitude and appreciation for the blessings in your own life (and celebrate Thanksgiving all season long), my Count Your Blessings devotional journal is a thoughtful and effective method for doing so. I’d urge you to grab a copy of my journal and try it out for yourself!
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