It's Time to Celebrate the Fall with 6 Fun Family Activities

The fall is a new season as summer ends, and nature prepares for winter.

It is a time of the year when changes are noticeable around you. Why not mark this special time of the year with some exciting fall activities?

Here are six suggestions that fit in with this time of the year. It is a time of autumn colours, harvesting, and plenty of pumpkins!

1. Autumn Leaf Threading

Autumn leaves are hard to resist. Once they start to fall, their colours are beautiful. A nature walk in the park will soon have you all collecting the different colours and sizes of leaves. Take the leaves home and take a paper punch to put a hole in the top of the leaf. Now, you can cut some coloured string or thin ribbon and thread the leaves together. Put some beads in between, and then string up your autumn leaves like a twirling fall decoration.

2. Pumpkin Sun Catcher

If you have a pumpkin farm near you, then a visit to see real pumpkins would be fun. After the farm visit, you may want to make something to remind you of the pumpkin farm. If you do not have a pumpkin farm nearby, then buying a pumpkin from a supermarket may be a good option to see a real pumpkin. Look at the shape of the pumpkin and outline black paper. Cut out the outline and then cut inside the outline to create a frame and an open section.

Glue a piece of tracing paper over the open section. Then, cut out different shapes from orange and yellow tissue paper. Stick these shapes onto the tracing paper. Thread a string to the top of the pumpkin shape and hang it up near a window. The sun will shine through and remind you of the warmth a pumpkin brings to the kitchen when it is cooked.

3. Scavenger Hunt

Now is the time of the year for a brisk walk out in the country or through your favourite park. Take a basket with you and collect all sorts of autumn treasures nature provides. Leaves, pine cones, acorns, perhaps a bird’s feather. Look out for dried grasses or bark from a tree. When you have all the fall objects, you need to take them home and play a memory game with them or set up an autumn nature tray to talk about all the beautiful things nature provides in the fall.

4. Delicious Deserts

Use the fruits of the fall to create some delicious desserts. Apples are in season, and apple pie or crumble is a popular dessert. Apple crumble is easy to make, and if you make pastry for a pie, your children will love rolling and cutting out pieces of pastry. Decorate some fun cookies to look like pumpkins and see how to make pumpkin pie.

5. A Finger Print Autumn Tree

The colours of the fall are so beautiful with their rich reds, oranges and yellows. A finger painting of an autumn tree is a great way to have a sensory activity and create a beautiful tree. You can draw a simple stick type of tree without leaves. Cut out black paper for the tree if you want something different. Mix up the autumn colours in three different bowls. Make the paint thick because your child is going to stick their finger into the paint and then dab the paint onto the tree like little leaves. Have a cloth nearby to wipe one colour off their finger before dipping it into another colour. The result will be a beautiful tree picture displaying all the lovely autumn Colours.

6. Paper Plate Sunflower

Using a paper plate to create a sunflower is an easy craft. It is so easy your child may enjoy making several sunny sunflowers. Find a white paper plate with the groves around the edge. Colour the groves in yellow. The centre will be the seed part of the sunflower. You can glue real sunflower seeds into the middle to add texture and talk about what real sunflowers do for us.

The fall is a really magical season of the year. These activities will help your family enjoy the
fall and appreciate how nature changes through the year from spring to summer and to
the fall.