Our Fall and Winter Fun List is done!
60 fun things we will be doing in the next six months:
- Draw faces on leaves
- Make an apple pie
- Make fall leaves spice art
- Go to local apple orchard
- Make a leaf book
- Play in a pile leaves
- “Marble” painting using an apple
- Drink hot cider
- Leaf printing
- Go to a pumpkin patch
- Leaf rubbing
- Make Thankful trees
- Hay ride
- Caramel apples
- Melted crayon leaf sun catchers
- Deer hunting (really just watching this year)
- Hand print turkeys
- Go trick or treating
- Carve pumpkins
- Roast pumpkin seeds and use them to make a pumpkin craft
- Make an autumn sparkle tree
- Children’s museum
- Girls road trip
- Donate food to the food pantry
- Build a fort (in the house)
- Treasure hunt
- Have a pajama movie night with Super Friend and her family
- Bake a cake
- Go to open swim at the YMCA
- Make a bucket craft to go with this book
- Make muffins
- Have a picnic in the living room
- Go to story time at the library
- Have a family slumber party
- Make a pinecone garland
- Write a letter to Santa
- Buy Christmas gifts for needy children
- Bake Christmas cookies
- Drive through the park to see the Christmas lights and visit the reindeer
- Set up nativity
- Have a Christmas music dance party
- Decorate the Christmas tree
- Make salt dough ornaments
- Visit Santa
- Sing Christmas carols
- Make hot glue and glitter snowflake ornaments
- Catch snowflakes
- Make snow angels
- Go Skiing
- Make paper snowflakes
- Blow ice bubbles
- Make a snow fort
- Drink hot chocolate
- Read books by the fire
- Make a snowman
- Have a snowball fight
- Snowman ice cream sundaes
- Make Valentine hearts with handprints (something like this, maybe even with glitter)
- Make kid-friendly tiramisu
- Make Valentine flower arrangements
Of course there is a lot more crafting and cooking on this list than there was on our summer list. Something about fall gets me in a super crafty mood. Leaves, apples, pumpkins, turkeys, Halloween… It’s all just so perfect making stuff. We already did marble painting with an apple (#7) and the girls loved it.
And don’t even get me started on Christmas crafts… I’m a little giddy thinking about it.
I decided to put more projects that involve glitter or other loathesome materials on the list so I will have to do them (for example see #3, #15, #21, #46 above). I really detest glitter, but the girls LOVE working with it. We made glittery firework art this summer (only because I put it on our list and we did it outside) and it was such a treat for them. So, it’s on there. Multiple times.
It will be fun.
I will meditate prior to doing crafts that involve glitter or other finely powdered substances (Spices? Sounds awesome for crafting. And a little bit horrible).
I didn’t make separate fall and winter lists because around here it’s usually hard to tell where one season ends and the other begins. Winter weather typically starts long before the solstice. Plus, plenty of the activities could be done in either the fall or winter, so I just combined them.
If you want to use some of this stuff for separate lists, the items are organized like this:
- Fall #1-21
- Either Fall or Winter #22-34
- Winter/Christmas #35-46
- Winter/General #47-57
- Winter/Valentine’s Day #58-60
I can’t wait to get into the activities with my girls.
What fall and/or winter activities are you looking forward to?
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