50 Fun Family 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:

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 best displays)
5. Change batteries in your smoke alarms
6. Stage a family fire drill
7. Read Pilgrim Stories
8. Build a bird or squirrel feeder
9. Go to the State Fair
10. Compete in a creative arts competition
11. Play Scrabble
12. Attend a high school football game
13. Host a Shoebox Stuffing Party for Operation Christmas Child
14. Go on a scavenger hunt
15. Make homemade granola or trail mix
16. Go to a drive-in 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: tulips, daffodils, 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 & mail it
22. Pass out candy & Halloween tracts to trick-or-treaters
23. Invite a lonely college student for Thanksgiving
24. Sing praise songs around a campfire
25. Feast as Pilgrims and Indians
26. Make popcorn balls
27. Clean house with all the windows open
28. Rake leaves
29. Watch Dan in Real Life
30. Jump in a leaf pile
31. Run a Turkey Trot or 5K
32. Carve a pumpkin
33. Build a bonfire
34. Start a leaf collection
35. Work a jigsaw puzzle
36. Go mountain biking
37. Roast pumpkin seeds
38. Pick apples at an orchard
39. Watch Martin Luther
40. Sing A Mighty Fortress
41. Learn the Five Solas
42. Bake a pecan pie
43. Visit a science museum
44. Make pumpkin bread
45. Bake an apple crisp
46. Read D’Aulaire’s Columbus
47. Make cranberry sauce
48. Camp out under the stars
49. Make s’mores
50. Shell pecans

That should keep us busy for at least a couple of months! What are your favorite fall activities? Anything you’d add to our list?