60 Kids’ Activities for Fall and Winter – The List is Done!

Our Fall and Winter Fun List is done!

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60 fun things we will be doing in the next six months:

  1. Draw faces on leaves
  2. Make an apple pie
  3. Make fall leaves spice art
  4. Go to local apple orchard
  5. Make a leaf book
  6. Play in a pile leaves
  7. “Marble” painting using an apple
  8. Drink hot cider
  9. Leaf printing
  10. Go to a pumpkin patch
  11. Leaf rubbing
  12. Make Thankful trees
  13. Hay ride
  14. Caramel apples
  15. Melted crayon leaf sun catchers
  16. Deer hunting (really just watching this year)
  17. Hand print turkeys
  18. Go trick or treating
  19. Carve pumpkins
  20. Roast pumpkin seeds and use them to make a pumpkin craft
  21. Make an autumn sparkle tree
  22. Children’s museum
  23. Girls road trip
  24. Donate food to the food pantry
  25. Build a fort (in the house)
  26. Treasure hunt
  27. Have a pajama movie night with Super Friend and her family
  28. Bake a cake
  29. Go to open swim at the YMCA
  30. Make a bucket craft to go with this book
  31. Make muffins
  32. Have a picnic in the living room
  33. Go to story time at the library
  34. Have a family slumber party
  35. Make a pinecone garland
  36. Write a letter to Santa
  37. Buy Christmas gifts for needy children
  38. Bake Christmas cookies
  39. Drive through the park to see the Christmas lights and visit the reindeer
  40. Set up nativity
  41. Have a Christmas music dance party
  42. Decorate the Christmas tree
  43. Make salt dough ornaments
  44. Visit Santa
  45. Sing Christmas carols
  46. Make hot glue and glitter snowflake ornaments
  47. Catch snowflakes
  48. Make snow angels
  49. Go Skiing
  50. Make paper snowflakes
  51. Blow ice bubbles
  52. Make a snow fort
  53. Drink hot chocolate
  54. Read books by the fire
  55. Make a snowman
  56. Have a snowball fight
  57. Snowman ice cream sundaes
  58. Make Valentine hearts with handprints (something like this, maybe even with glitter)
  59. Make kid-friendly tiramisu
  60. Make Valentine flower arrangements

Motherhood and Miscellany - 60 Fun Kids' Activities for Fall and Winter

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.

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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.

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What fall and/or winter activities are you looking forward to?

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