Fall For Fun: 10 Autumn Activities For Kids

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Autumn is the perfect time to engage children with healthy outlets for their boundless energy, taking them far from their screens and into the colourful fun of the season. From cool-weather hikes to fun leaf piles, creative holiday crafts and tasty roasted snacks, it almost seems like autumn was made for keeping children entertained. Whether you’re looking to take your kids outside for new nature experiences or bring the five senses of fall indoors, we’ve got you covered. These fun and creative activities will help kids of all ages make the most of the season and their developing minds, before it gets too cold to do anything at all.

By María Elisa Gómez Sosa

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Create Pine Cone Place Cards – While you’re busy roasting the turkey, baking the pie and doing the heavy-duty prep for Thanksgiving dinner or a seasonal party, let your kids help with a fun, easy project: crafting these cute critter place cards will keep them occupied while you’re tackling the more demanding tasks, and will also make them feel included and helpful during the preparations – an instant confidence booster! With a few pine cones and a couple of other items, they can create animal place cards to give your dinner table an adorable seasonal touch. As an alternative, this idea is even easier and more toddler-friendly, but still a fine addition to the décor.

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Brew Some Butterbeer – Got any mini Potterheads at home? Autumn is the time of the year to rewatch all the Harry Potter films – and wish our own school year at Hogwarts was just starting. Since we didn’t get our letters, we offer a muggle-friendly alternative: make a homemade replica of Hogsmeade butterbeer. Your petite Potter fans will have fun making it, and will love the sweet butterscotch flavour – perfect for a cosy movie marathon or a themed holiday party. Feel free to add a shot of single malt to your glass. Parenting is hard, you deserve it.

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Have A Seasonal Picnic – While many consider picnics more of a blue-sky, warm-day kind of activity, late autumn in many places still offers nice, crisp weather that you’ll want to enjoy as long as you can. Pack a dew-proof mat or a couple of camping chairs, add extra blankets to wrap up warm, let the kids pick their favourite picnic dishes and treats – including pre-made s’mores and hot chocolate – and have your spooky stories or board games at the ready. They’ll not only get their much-needed dose of fresh air, but it’s also a simple way for you to bond as a family without the usual distractions.

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Fashion Natural Wreaths – Get your kids crafting something you can proudly display on your front door with an easy-to-make natural fall wreath. Take them out to collect a few colourful leaves, branches, flowers or even corn leaves – already a fun expedition activity – and then decorate a plastic plate, cardboard ring or embroidery hoop with your found items. Since there’s no right way to make a wreath, this activity lets kids be as creative and free as they want, and the colours of the season’s elements will guarantee a beautiful result, regardless of your little ones’ chosen aesthetic. For a less traditional and more rustic style, use acorns, mini pinecones and dried flowers instead.

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Do A Holiday-Themed Scavenger Hunt – Once the costume parties and trick-or-treating are over, offer some extended holiday fun with a late Halloween or Thanksgiving scavenger hunt. Download a simple printable with holiday-related items for the kids to check off, or make it a bit more challenging with clues and riddles for them to solve. As they go around the neighbourhood – or the house, if you have enough space – they’ll strengthen their observational skills, develop curiosity and learn to collaborate in teams. Plus, you can reward them with fun prizes!

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Tell A Story With Scarecrow Puppets – When it comes to arts and crafts, little ones will enjoy the process a lot more when they’re making something they’ll actually get to play with later. Make it fall-friendly and fun with brown bag scarecrow puppets. Using a few simple materials, they’ll unleash their creativity and self-expression and reinforce their fine motor skills, while you’ll gain new storytime ideas with an autumn theme. Or, even better, just let them play by themselves and come up with their own stories as a great way for them to learn about emotions and social relationships and improve their speech and language skills.

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Roast Pumpkin Seeds – Carving pumpkins is a must in every autumn enthusiast’s household. Extend the fun, add a nutritional element, and help kids develop additional skills with a pumpkin seed roast-off. While the recipe for roasted seeds is pretty straightforward, they’ll have fun scraping, washing, seasoning and experimenting with different flavours. Make different batches, from cinnamon-sweet to buttery and salty or ginger-spicy, all while sharpening their senses, discovering new flavours and smells, and enjoying a healthy and tasty snack afterwards.

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Get Planting – Prep your spring garden in advance – and get the kids into the basics of gardening – by planting bulbs. Any gardening activity helps young ones connect with nature, improve their gross motor skills, and get a hands-on science experience, but bulb planting in particular gets them all the more excited, with the chance to see how – with time and care – a dry bulb turns into a beautiful flower. Get a few extra (non-toxic) bulbs for them to cut open and peek inside as a bonus natural science lesson. Bonus: if you plant onions and shallots, knowing they grew them will make the kids more likely to want to eat them!

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Design A Thankfulness Tree – Being thankful for what we have is especially relevant during this season’s holidays, but still an important practice for us to pass on to our little ones all year. Turn the habit into a fun experience they’ll want to take part in with a handcrafted ‘thankfulness tree’. Arrange some sticks in a container, make them write things they’re grateful for in cut-out leaves, and attach the leaves and other decorating elements, such as flowers and seeds, to the tree. Pro tip: Use colours and textures that’ll match your home décor, so you can then happily display it as a centrepiece on your dinner table or as decoration on your living room shelves.

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Play A Leaf-Matching Game – Kids might not enjoy a scenic stroll or a leaf-peeping trip as much as we do. One way to make it fun when they’re done jumping on leaf piles? Have them play a leaf matching game. Gather a few leaves (the more dissimilar, the better) and ask them to look for the tree that each leaf belongs to. This simple activity will keep them entertained for long spans of time, help them connect with nature, get them learning about the different types of trees, and even improve their attention to detail and analytical skills. And you get some peaceful outdoors time to yourself.

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