61 Sensational Fall Activities For Toddlers

🍎 Apple Stamping

Cut apples in half, dip them in paint, and use them as stamps to create simple art. For fun, add green pipe cleaner pieces for stems and googly eyes.

Benefits: Encourages creativity and fine motor skills.

Supplies: Apples, non-toxic paint, paper, googly eyes and pipe cleaners (optional), smocks.

Tip: Experiment with different apple shapes (try cutting them in half horizontally for a star-shaped center) and paint colors.

🏡 Birdhouse Crafting

Build or decorate a birdhouse together. Hang it in your yard and watch for birds that may visit during the fall.

Benefits: Encourages creativity and a connection with nature.

Supplies: Birdhouse kit or materials, paint, brushes.

Tip: Use non-toxic paint and add birdseed inside to attract birds.

🍁 Handprint Fall Trees

Trace your child’s hand on a piece of paper and let them decorate it like a tree in the fall.

Benefits: Encourages creativity and fine motor skills.

Supplies: Paper, markers, paints, crayons.

Pro Tip: Use real leaves or tissue paper for added texture.

🍂 Leaf Rubbings

Collect leaves (fresh are better), place them under paper, and rub crayons over the paper to create beautiful leaf patterns.

Benefits: Explores textures and builds fine motor skills.

Supplies:  Leaves, white paper, crayons (wrappers removed), tape.

Tip: Tape the paper to an outdoor surface and use the length of the crayon for the best results. Explore different leaf shapes and colors for a more vibrant art project!

🎨 Nature Collage

Take a fall nature walk and collect items like twigs, acorns, and pinecones. Then, use glue and paper to create beautiful nature collages.

Benefits: Encourages creativity and fine motor skills.

Supplies: Collected natural items, glue, and paper.

Tip: Frame the collages as seasonal decorations for your home.

🖼️ Nature Portrait

Create a self-portrait using only items from nature. Let your child gather leaves, sticks, and pinecones to design their own masterpiece.

Benefits: Encourages creativity, fine motor skills, and a connection with nature.

Supplies: Natural materials like leaves, pinecones, and sticks.

Tip: Challenge your child to find specific colors or textures to make their artwork even more unique!

🌰 Painting With Acorns

Collect acorns and use them to create unique paintings. Place white paper in a shallow box or old cookie sheet. Add a few paint drops to the paper, then drop in the acorns. Let your child shake the box or cookie sheet to roll the acorns around and make art.

Benefits: Encourages creativity and provides a fun, sensory experience.

Supplies: Acorns (or other fun things found in nature), paper, paint, an old cookie sheet, or a shallow box.

Tip: Use different colors of paint for varied effects, and consider adding a few drops of water to make the paint spread more easily.

🎨 Pinecone Painting

Collect pinecones and use them to create unique fall art activities. Dip the pinecones in paint and press them onto paper to make textured patterns and designs. You can also paint and decorate the pinecones as ornaments for your fall decor.

Benefits: Encourages creativity, develops fine motor skills, and introduces children to texture in art.

Supplies: Pinecones, washable paint, paper, and paintbrushes (optional for detail work).

Tip: Experiment with different colors and painting techniques. Let kids explore how different pinecone shapes create various patterns on the paper.

🎨 Rock Painting

Painting rocks is a fun and creative outdoor activity for kids. They can create kindness rocks with encouraging messages or thankful rocks with pictures of things they’re grateful for. Let them find some rocks, clean them off, and paint away!

Benefits: Enhances creativity, allows outdoor art exploration, and promotes positive messages and gratitude.

Supplies: Rocks, paints, paintbrushes, and water for cleaning rocks.

Tip: Clean the rocks with a hose before painting for a smoother surface. Use rocks of different sizes and shapes to add variety to their creations.

🧩 Autumn Puzzle

Cut a fall-themed picture into pieces and let your child put it back together to create a simple puzzle.

Benefits: Encourages problem-solving and fine motor skills.

Supplies: Fall-themed picture, scissors.

Tip: Laminate the picture before cutting for durability.

🌰 Fall Sorting and Counting Activities

Gather items like leaves, pinecones, and acorns. Sort them by size, color, or type.

Benefits: Enhances sorting and categorization skills and promotes fine motor development.

Supplies: Collected natural items and containers for sorting.

Pro Tip: Incorporate counting songs or games to make it more engaging

📚 Fall-Themed Storytime

Read fall-themed books together inside or outside, like in a hammock, under a tree, or in the garden. Cozy up with favorites like “The Leaf Thief,” “Fletcher and the Falling Leaves,” or “Apple Farmer Annie.”

Benefits: Promotes literacy and seasonal awareness.

Supplies: Fall-themed books, a cozy reading spot.

Tip: For added fun, act out scenes from the books or create simple crafts based on the stories!

🍂 Leaf Garland

Collect lots of leaves and string them together using jute twine or yarn to create a fall garland for your home. You can attach them using tiny clothespins or staple them to the twine, or, if sturdy enough, just staple the leaves together.

Benefits: Strengthens fine motor skills and adds a festive touch to the home.

Supplies: Leaves, string, hole punch, tape.

Tip: Suggest pressing the leaves first to keep them flat and vibrant.

🧵 Leaf Lacing or Threading

Collect some sturdy leaves with holes and then use jute twine, colorful shoelaces, or yarn to create simple “needles.”. Encourage your child to thread the lace through the holes for a fine motor skill workout.

Benefits: Develop hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills, and sensory exploration.

Supplies: Sturdy leaves, jute twine, shoelaces, or yarn.

Tip: Use natural holes in leaves or punch your own to make threading easier. Let kids choose and collect the leaves to add a fun nature element!

🎯 Ring Around The Pumpkin

Using the pumpkins you picked at the pumpkin patch (before you carve them), play a game of ring around the pumpkin stem. Cut empty toilet paper paper towel rolls into 1″ – 2″ strips for the rings. Group the pumpkins together in a tray. Then, let your toddler toss the rings onto the pumpkin stems.

Benefits: Support gross motor development and eye-hand coordination

Supplies: Empty paper towel or toilet paper rolls, pumpkins, tray (optional)

Tips: If tossing the rings is too tricky, let them stack them on the pumpkin stems.

🍏 Caramel Apples

As a classic fall treat, caramel apples can be challenging for toddlers to eat. Try this toddler-friendly option. Instead of using whole apples, cut them into slices, put them on a stick, dip them in caramel, and add toppings like chocolate chips, granola, or crushed pretzels for a fun, hands-on dessert.

Benefits: Promotes creativity and fine motor skills while making a tasty treat.

Supplies: Apples, caramel, lollipop sticks, assorted toppings.

Tip: Set up a caramel apple bar with various toppings so everyone can create their perfect apple slice!

🥧 Homemade Applesauce

Use those extra apples from your apple-picking adventure to make delicious homemade applesauce! Simply peel, core, and chop the apples, then cook them down with some water and cinnamon. This easy, unsweetened, or sweetened recipe is a great way to enjoy the taste of fall and get kids involved in the kitchen. You could add another level of learning by reading the book “Applesauce Day.”

Benefits: Provides a hands-on cooking experience, helps kids learn about measuring and mixing, and allows for a tasty treat made from fresh ingredients.

Supplies: Apples, water, cinnamon (optional), peeler, knife, pot, spoon.

Tip: Make this recipe with any extra apples leftover from apple picking. It’s a great way to enjoy the fruits of your harvest and create a delicious snack or side dish!

☕ Hot Apple Cider

Nothing beats a warm mug of apple cider on a crisp fall day. Heat apple cider and add cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves for a delicious autumn treat.

Benefits: It provides a comforting and seasonal drink that warms up the family.

Supplies: Apple cider, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves (or pumpkin pie spice), mug.

Tip: For extra fall fun, make it over a campfire and sip under a blanket!

🎃 Roast Pumpkin Seeds

After carving pumpkins, save the seeds and roast them! Preheat your oven to 350°F, have the kids help separate and rinse the seeds, toss with seasoning (savory or sweet), and bake on a cookie sheet for 25 minutes for a tasty fall treat.

Benefits: Encourages hands-on cooking and trying new flavors.

Supplies: Pumpkin seeds, cookie sheet, seasoning of choice (try ranch, BBQ, salt and pepper, cinnamon sugar, maple syrup, honey, or pumpkin pie spice), and oven.

Tip: Turn it into an outdoor adventure by roasting the seeds over a campfire or grill!

🥜 Trail Mix

Use your roasted pumpkin seeds and other favorite ingredients to create a fall-inspired trail mix. It’s perfect for a quick snack during any outdoor fall activities.

Benefits: Encourages healthy eating and simple cooking skills.

Supplies: Roasted pumpkin seeds, nuts, dried fruit, and other favorite mix-ins.

Tip: Let kids customize their mix with their favorite ingredients!

🍎 Other Fall Treats

Bake pumpkin muffins or chewy gingerbread cookies together. Let your child measure and mix the ingredients.

Benefits: Cooking activities for toddlers develop expressive language skills and support sensory exploration.

Supplies: Baking ingredients, measuring cups, mixing bowls.

Tip: Keep the recipes simple and focus on the fun of the process.

🍁 Autumn-Themed Block Sorting

Use blocks in fall colors (red, orange, yellow, brown) and have your child sort them by color. You can also create patterns with the blocks.

Benefits: Promotes color recognition and pattern-making skills.

Supplies: Blocks in fall colors.

Tip: Encourage your child to create their own patterns with the blocks, and then sort them according to the patterns they’ve made.

🌽 Build a Barn

Encourage your child to build a barn using blocks, then use small animals, tractors, and fences to play in and around the barn, simulating a fall farm setting.

Benefits: Enhances creativity and storytelling.

Supplies: Blocks, small animals, and other props like tractors and fences.

Tip: Create a story about the farm and its animals to make the playtime more engaging. Let your child create their own story to add more creativity.

🏰 Fall Harvest Tower

Encourage your child to build the tallest tower using blocks, then “decorate” the tower with small fall items like acorns or mini pumpkins.

Benefits: Develop spatial awareness and balancing skills.

Supplies: Building blocks, acorns, mini pumpkins.

Tip: Set up a mini competition with family members to see who can build the tallest and most creatively decorated tower.

🍂 Leaf Maze Building

Use blocks to create a maze on the floor, then add leaves or small fall-themed objects as obstacles. Let your toddler navigate a small car or toy through the maze.

Benefits: Encourages problem-solving and fine motor skills.

Supplies: Building blocks, leaves or small objects, toy cars or figures.

Tip: Vary the path widths and add more obstacles to make the maze more challenging. Use different types of leaves to create diverse textures for added sensory fun.

🎃 Pumpkin Patch Block Play

Create a pretend pumpkin patch by building small “pumpkins” with orange blocks. Use green blocks for vines and leaves. Encourage your child to “harvest” the pumpkins.

Benefits: Enhances imaginative play and fine motor development.

Supplies: Orange and green blocks.

Tip: Add a small basket or container to collect the “harvested” pumpkins, making the play experience more interactive and fun.

🎃 Pumpkin Sensory Bin

Create a sensory bin filled with pumpkin seeds, small pumpkins, and fall-themed items.

Benefits: Supports sensory development and imaginative play.

Supplies: Plastic bin, pumpkin seeds, small pumpkins, scoops, cups.

Tip: Suggest adding fall-scented elements like cinnamon sticks for an extra sensory layer.

🍂 Fall Sensory Bins

Fill a bin with dried corn, acorns, and leaves for sensory play. Then, let your child explore textures and colors.

Benefits: Supports sensory exploration and fine motor skills.

Supplies: Bin, dried corn, acorns, leaves, small tools for scooping.

Tip: Add items like cinnamon sticks or pinecones for various textures. Add small animals, cars, and people for imaginative play.

🧴 Fall-Themed Sensory Bottles

Fill clear bottles with water (clear or colored), glitter, and small fall-themed items for a calming sensory activity. Seal them tightly, let your child shake, and observe the swirling contents.

Benefits: Encourages sensory exploration and can be used as a calming tool.

Supplies: Clear plastic bottles, water, glitter, and small fall-themed items.

Tip: Seal the bottles with hot glue to prevent leaks.

👃 Make Fall-Scented Playdough

Make playdough with fall scents like cinnamon, apple, or pumpkin. It’s an easy, fun sensory activity that will keep kids entertained for hours.

Benefits: Promotes sensory play, creativity, and fine motor skills.

Supplies: Playdough ingredients, fall-scented spices (cinnamon, pumpkin spice, etc.), and airtight containers. The recipe is available here.

Tip: Store the playdough in airtight containers to keep it fresh for future play!

🪵 Cinnamon Stick Playdough Rolling

Use cinnamon sticks (the longer ones work better) to roll out playdough, adding a fall scent to the activity.

Benefits: Combines sensory play with fine motor development.

Supplies: Playdough, cinnamon sticks.

Tip: Pair this activity with apple-scented playdough for a complete fall sensory experience.

🎃 Edible (Taste-Safe) Pumpkin Slime

Make jiggly pumpkin pie slime with coconut milk, pumpkin, and spices. Perfect for pretend cooking and sensory pumpkin activities!

Benefits: Enhances sensory exploration and imaginative play.

Supplies: Use this recipe.

Tip: Use a mini pie tin and rolling pin for extra fun while “baking” with your slime!

🌿 Nature  Scavenger Hunt

Create a simple list of fall items (e.g., acorns, leaves, pinecones) for your toddler to find in your backyard or a nearby park.

Benefits: Enhances observation skills and promotes outdoor exploration.

Supplies: A basket or bag for collecting items, a printed scavenger list (optional), or check out this done-for-you scavenger hunt set.

Tip: Use a picture scavenger hunt checklist. Grab your free printable checklist here.

📸 Fall Photo Scavenger Hunt

Give your kids a camera and a list of items to find and photograph on a fall scavenger hunt. They’ll love capturing the season’s beauty through their own lens.

Benefits: Encourages creativity, independence, and observational skills.

Supplies: Camera, list of scavenger hunt items.

Tip: Mix the list with specific and vague prompts to inspire creativity!

🐦 Make a Bird Feeder

Create a simple and fun bird feeder with your kids to attract and feed local birds. A favorite method is to coat a pinecone with peanut butter and roll it in birdseed. You can also use an extra pumpkin or gourd by removing the top and filling the base with birdseed for a natural feeder.

Benefits: Learn about local wildlife, experience outdoor observation, and promote creativity and hands-on activities.

Supplies: Pinecones, peanut butter, birdseed, an extra pumpkin or gourd, and a knife (for adult use only).

Tip: Hang the bird feeder in a visible spot near a window so your kids can watch the birds that come to visit.

🐦 Backyard Bird Watching

Set up a bird feeder (make or buy) outside in your backyard and observe the different birds that visit during the fall. Start by listening to their calls and using a local guide to identify them. For a better variety, bird watching can be done near water.

Benefits: Teaches about local wildlife and encourages a connection with nature

Supplies: Bird handbook, bird feeder (see below), bird seed.

Tip: Keep a simple bird guidebook handy to identify different species. If live birds are hard to find, look for signs of bird activity, like nests or feathers.

☀️ Shadow Play

On a sunny day, use chalk to trace the shadow of your toddler or other objects on the ground. Talk about how the sun’s position affects the shadows.

Benefits: Encourages curiosity about nature and spatial awareness.

Supplies: Chalk, leaves, and other objects.

Tip: Pair this activity with a story about the sun and shadows.

🌈 Fall Color Walk

Take a walk and search for fall colors in nature. Use a color chart to find items that match each hue, from red to brown—and maybe even purple! I love to pick up paint swatches for color matching. Want some activities that are not seasonal? Check these color activities.

Benefits: Encourages observation, color recognition, and outdoor exploration.

Supplies: Color chart or paint sample cards.

Tip: For added fun, challenge your child to find the rarest colors, like purple or black.

🍁 Fall Leaf Collection Walk

Go on a walk to collect different types of leaves for fall activities and crafts or sensory play. Find as many different colors and shapes as you can.

Benefits: Promotes outdoor exploration and nature.

Supplies: Containers to collect all the leaves.

Tip: Discuss the changing seasons and colors with your toddler.

🍂 Leaf Pile Playtime

What’s fall without jumping into a pile of leaves? Rake leaves into a pile and let your toddler jump, roll, and explore. It’s a classic fall activity that kids love. We have 25 more gross motor activities you can explore here.

Benefits: Great for gross motor skills and sensory play.

Supplies: Rake and bag for leaves (for cleanup after playtime is over).

Tip: Suggest layering the ground with a tarp to make cleanup easier.

🧙‍♀️ Make A Potion

I loved making mud stew in the backyard as a child. Here’s a twist: Let your kids mix up a witch’s potion using items they find in nature. Add vinegar, dish soap, and food coloring for a bubbling, spooky effect.

Benefits: Promotes creativity, sensory exploration, and a fun science twist.

Supplies: A jar, natural items (grass, twigs, leaves, etc.), vinegar, dish soap, food coloring, and baking soda.

Tip: Do this outside—it can get messy, but that’s part of the fun!

🌧️ Paint with Mud

Turn a rainy fall day into a creative adventure by making and using mud paint! Mix mud with powdered tempera paint, water, and dish soap to create a fun, textured paint for your kids to use outdoors.

Benefits: Encourages creativity, allows for sensory exploration, and provides an opportunity for fall outdoor activities, even on rainy days.

Supplies: Mud, powdered tempera paint (or liquid watercolor, liquid tempera, or food coloring), water, Dawn dish soap, containers, paintbrushes, sturdy paper (cardstock, poster board, or cardboard), and old clothes so you don’t have to worry about staining.

Tip: If you’re concerned about staining, leave out the coloring and let the kids paint with plain mud. Send them out in old clothes.

🎃 Pumpkin Patch Excursion

Explore a pumpkin patch, and choose your pumpkins to take home.

Benefits: Promotes decision-making and provides a rich sensory experience.

Tip: Check out some pumpkin activities for toddlers below to use the pumpkins later.

🎃 Pumpkin Carving

Pumpkin carving is a classic fall activity where you scoop out the pumpkin guts and carve cute pumpkin designs or faces. It’s an excellent way for kids to get creative and enjoy a hands-on Halloween tradition. Consider this kid-safe carving set for family fun

Benefits: Encourages creativity and provides a festive family activity.

Supplies: Pumpkins, carving tools, spoons for scooping, and a candle or LED light for lighting the pumpkin.

Tip: Let younger kids draw their design on the pumpkin first, then you carve it yourself. They can help with scooping and decorating.

🎨 Pumpkin Decorating

Decorate pumpkins with stickers, markers, or non-toxic paint to create unique jack-o’-lanterns. Pumpkin painting for toddlers is a great way for them to get creative with decorating their pumpkins safely. If appropriate, turn it into a friendly contest.

Benefits: Inspires self-expression and creativity.

Supplies: Pumpkins (mini or regular), markers, stickers, paint, googly eyes, or small fabric scraps.

Tip: Avoid sharp tools; stick to toddler-safe decorations.

🎃 Pumpkin Guts Sensory Bag

Fill a plastic ziplock bag with the slimy insides of a pumpkin, including the seeds, and seal it up for a mess-free sensory experience. Your toddler can squish, squeeze, and explore the texture of the pumpkin guts without getting their hands dirty.

Benefits: Encourages sensory exploration and fine motor skill development.

Supplies: Pumpkin guts, plastic ziplock bags.

Tip: Double-bag the pumpkin guts to prevent leaks, and tape the bag to a table or floor for added stability during play.

🦠 Pumpkin Oobleck

Turn your carved pumpkin insides into a fun sensory activity by making pumpkin oobleck! This non-Newtonian fluid is a mix of water and cornstarch that acts like both a solid and a liquid. Blend the gooey pumpkin guts with water and cornstarch to create a squishy, pumpkin-themed oobleck, perfect for messy pumpkin play.

Benefits: Provides a sensory-rich experience, introduces the concept of non-Newtonian fluids, and encourages creative play.

Supplies: Pumpkin insides (minus the seeds), water, cornstarch, and a blender. Try this simple recipe here.

Tip: Adjust the cornstarch and water ratio to achieve the desired consistency. If the oobleck is too thick, add more water; too thin, add more cornstarch.

🎃 Pumpkin Volcano

Transform a used pumpkin into a fun science experiment. Add dish soap and food coloring to the pumpkin, then pour vinegar in to create an exciting eruption.

Benefits: Engages kids in hands-on science and encourages observation and experimentation.

Supplies: Pumpkin, food coloring, dish soap, vinegar.

Tip: For a more dramatic eruption, use a larger pumpkin and pour in extra vinegar and dish soap.

🧪 Apple Oxidation Experiment

Cut an apple into slices and watch how they change color over time. Use different methods to keep them from turning brown. Try these simple processes:

• Lemon Juice: Mix one part lemon juice with three parts water and sprinkle or soak the apple slices in this mixture.

• Salt Water: Soak apple slices in one quart of water mixed with half a teaspoon of salt for about three minutes. Rinse thoroughly in fresh water afterward to remove any salty taste.

• Honey Water: Mix one cup of water with two tablespoons of honey and soak the apple slices for 30 seconds.

Compare the results to see which works best.

Benefits: Introduces basic concepts of chemical reactions and oxidation.

Supplies: Apples, knife, lemon juice, salt, honey, water, and plates.

Tip: Use a timer to check the apple slices regularly and see how quickly they change.

🛠️ Building with Acorns and Playdough

Description: Use playdough as a base and challenge your toddler to build structures using acorns, twigs, and leaves.

Benefits: Encourages engineering skills, creativity, and fine motor development.

Supplies: Playdough, acorns, twigs, leaves.

Tip: Ask questions encouraging problem-solving, like “How can we make this taller?”

🍎 Exploring Gravity with Apples

Description: Use apples of different sizes to explore how gravity works. Drop them from various heights and observe which one hits the ground first.

Benefits: Introduces basic physics concepts like gravity and acceleration.

Supplies: Apples of different sizes and measuring tape (optional).

Tip: Ask your toddler to predict which apple will fall fastest and then test the prediction.

🌱 Planting Apple Seeds

Planting apple seeds is a fun and educational activity. After picking apples, use the seeds to start your own apple tree. It’s a great way to see how plants grow from seeds and is an excellent follow-up to apple picking.

Benefits: Teach kids about plant growth and care, encourage patience, and give them a hands-on science project.

Supplies: Apple seeds, paper towels, a plastic bag, a gallon pot, and potting soil.

Tip: Before planting, store the seeds in the fridge, wrapped in a moist paper towel in a plastic bag for 6 weeks to mimic winter conditions. This will help the seeds sprout better.

🧪 Pumpkin Sink or Float Experiment

Description: Use pumpkins of different sizes and shapes to explore buoyancy. Ask your toddler if they think each pumpkin will sink or float, then test it out in a large tub of water.

Benefits: Teaches basic concepts of density and buoyancy.

Supplies: Pumpkins, large tub, water.

Tip: Extend the activity by trying other fall items like apples or gourds.Building with Acorns and Playdough

🍎 Apple Picking Adventure

Pick apples and enjoy the crisp fall air in a local orchard. Encourage your child to help select the apples and discuss the different varieties.

Benefits: Encourages physical activity, teaches about where food comes from, and supports sensory exploration.

Supplies: Wagon and gloves (optional).

Tip: Bring a wagon, visit during off-peak hours, and plan an apple-based snack afterward.

🍎 Bobbing For Apples The Safe Way

Fill a tub with water and add the apples (they should float to the top). Use kitchen tools like spoons, ladles, and strainers to scoop the apples out—no face-dunk required!

Benefits: Enhances fine motor activity and hand-eye coordination while keeping the classic activity safe.

Supplies: A plastic tub, apples, water, and kitchen utensils (spoon, ladle, strainer, pots).

Tip: Add a twist by timing how long it takes to scoop all the apples out!

🎉 Attend A Harvest Festival

Visit a local harvest festival to enjoy a day of fall-themed fun! Festivals often feature activities like pumpkin carving, corn mazes, hayrides, and live music. It’s an excellent opportunity to experience the season’s best and enjoy community events with your family.

Benefits: Provides a fun family outing, encourages outdoor activity, and offers a chance to experience local traditions and seasonal foods.

Supplies: Comfortable clothing for outdoor weather, a camera for photos, and a small amount of cash for food and activities.

Tip: Check the festival’s schedule ahead of time to plan which activities you’d like to participate in and avoid missing out on any special events or performances.

🌽 Get Lost In A Corn Maze

Corn mazes are a fall favorite! Challenge your kids to navigate the twists and turns. Let them decide which way to go; if they get stuck, they can double back and try again.

Benefits: Builds problem-solving skills, encourages teamwork, and promotes outdoor exploration.

Tip: Turn it into a game by timing how long it takes to find the way out!

🍁 Go On A Hay Ride

Enjoy a fall hayride, where you ride on a hay-filled trailer pulled by a tractor. It’s a great way to experience the crisp autumn air and maybe see local wildlife. Evening rides are especially exciting, with flashlights to spot animals like deer and raccoons.

Benefits: Provides a fun family outdoor adventure.

Supplies: Flashlights, warm clothing (if going in the evening), and optional snacks like the trail mix you made.

Tip: Bring a blanket or a warm jacket for cooler evening rides, and consider a bonfire with s’mores to extend the fun!

🎃 Decorate Your Front Door & Porch

Decorate your front door or porch with some fall fun. Use some of your kids’ fall artwork and crafts, pumpkins, gourds, or mums, and let your kids help with the decorations!

Benefits: Enhances the fall season’s fun and involves kids in festive decorating.

Supplies: Kids decorations, pumpkins, gourds, mums, corn stalks,  twinkle lights.

Tip: Let your kids choose and place decorations to make it a fun family activity!

🚂 Take A Fall Train Ride

Enjoy a scenic train ride this fall, where the journey is as exciting as the destination. Take the train to a new place to explore for a few hours. Whether it’s a charming town, a park, or a museum, your kids will love the experience of getting their tickets punched, watching the scenery roll by, and exploring a new place.  One of our favorites is the Georgetown Loop Railroad in Colorado. 

Benefits: Provides a unique adventure, enhances excitement for travel, and offers new perspectives on the landscape.

Supplies: Train tickets, snacks, and a camera (optional).

Tip: Choose a route with scenic views and an exciting destination with kid-friendly activities or attractions to make the stop as enjoyable as the ride.