Homeschool Fall Bucket List – Fall Activities for Kids
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The start of a new season is a great time to make a list of everything you want to accomplish. It is really easy to spend weekends checking off chores and ignoring fun family activities, but that is no fun! A low-key educational homeschool fall bucket list helps me be intentional with my time. . . which goes by way too fast!
We definitely do not do all of these activities every year, but they are a fun addition to our fall schedule. Some years we make a poster with these fun fall activities listed so we have a fun way to track which of our favorite fall activities we do.
So many regular everyday activities can be educational. There are opportunities to practice academic skills all around us. With a little intention, we can add language arts, math, and science to just about anything. Reading books about a topic is a great way to add a little homeschool spin on traditional fall activities for kids.
In many places, fall is the perfect time to spend time outside. The cooler temperatures are a welcome relief after a hot summer!
Low-Key Educational Homeschool Fall Bucket List – Fun Activities for Fall
When I am creating bucket lists for my own family I try to think in terms of categories for the fall season. I want to include a variety of activities and seeing them organized that way helps me make sure we don’t just spend the entire season baking apple and pumpkin treats while neglecting other fun things.
My family also enjoys Halloween and Thanksgiving during the fall, so I group those items too. It would feel a little silly doing a Thanksgiving activity in September.
Most of these activities can be enjoyed by the entire family!
Outdoor Activities
Go for a family hike and check out the fall leaves
Jump in a pile of leaves
Plant mums (or any fall flower)
Visit a pumpkin patch and find the perfect pumpkin
Go apple picking at an apple orchard
Visit the zoo
Try to find your way through a corn maze
Tour a historical site – they frequently have special programs in the fall
Go on an alphabet walk at a local park
Check out hay rides – if you don’t find them too itchy
Visit a botanical garden – the fall plants might be different than at other times of the year
Do a little bird-watching in your own backyard
Go to a football game
Art
Paint pumpkins
Make new seasonal DIY coasters
Learn how to make leaf rubbings
Baking
Roast pumpkin seeds
Make pumpkin spice doughnuts or apple cider doughnuts
Make a pie – whatever your family enjoys
Make homemade hot chocolate
Make caramel apples
Halloween
Decorate a gingerbread haunted house – increase the educational value by asking kids to write about their gingerbread house
Do Halloween-themed science experiments
Participate in an online pumpkin-themed book club
Thanksgiving
Take kids to the grocery store to collect food for a local food bank
Read Thanksgiving books
Reread A Long Walk to Water and do a few of the related activities – we read this book just about every year
Do Thanksgiving-themed science experiments
Have a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
Try a new Thanksgiving craft
What is on your homeschool fall bucket list?
I hope these activities help you enjoy the autumn season with your whole family!
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