Fall Seasonal Activities

As I strive to be more intentional with the time I have with my children, I recently decided to make a list of fall seasonal activities that I am wanting to do with my family. My 10yr old gave me his input, and then I found more recipes and craft ideas on Pinterest.


Here is the list we came up with:

• Nature walk (weekly)- collect fun things for crafts & enjoy the outdoors
  
• Visit the pumpkin patch
• Make crockpot applesauce
• Make bean mosaics (pumpkin & leaf shapes)
• Make construction paper pumpkin faces
• Check out fall-themed books from the library
• Make roasted pumpkin seeds
• Make pumpkin spice cake
• Carve pumpkins
• Make pumpkin seed mosaics
• Make pumpkin pie play dough
• Attend a fall harvest party
• Go trick-or-treating in our neighborhood
• Paint pumpkins
• Play in the leaves
• Make pumpkin scones
• Make fall leaf coasters
• Make fall leaf paintings in baggies
• Decorate mini pumpkins with craft supplies
• Fall paper plate wreaths
• Make hot apple cider
• Make streusel-topped pumpkin custards
• Cinnamon apple spice play dough
• Popsicle stick scarecrows
• Make spiced yogurt pound cake
• Tissue paper turkeys
• Celebrate Thanksgiving
• Make pumpkin pie
• Paint pine cones
• Play Apples to Apples game

After making the list, I divided everything up between the next six weeks (thru the end of November). Then during naptime yesterday, I got out some scrapbooking paper & made a 12x12 chart to hang on the wall so the whole family can see what is planned for each of the weeks.


I really need accountability if I'm going to keep up with something like this, so hopefully this chart (& putting it on my blog here) will help me with the follow-through. I'm only breaking things down by week, that way I still have some flexibility as to which day we actually do them. And I'm sure I'll still move things around a bit, but for the most part, I think it should work well.

I also left a few blank spots since I couldn't come up with anything else, but wanted to get going on it rather than wait till I have it perfect. lol I can always fill it in as I come across more fun ideas.

Here's a closer look:

I'll post pictures as we complete some of these. And if it works well for us, I plan to do one for Christmas time too.

In fact, today, we did our first nature walk & we couldn't have asked for a more gorgeous fall day. My 10yr old doesn't really enjoy collecting leaves & things anymore (he says he's too old for that...sigh). Yeah, he was sort of embarrassed carrying a bag around the park (lol), so he just went along for the walk. I was just happy to have him there with us.