Fall Bucket List for Families

With this Fall Bucket List for Families, you will have 60 ideas for fun activities for the season. Includes links to help you plan your fun.

Fall gives us so many ways to build new memories with our family. Here is a Fall Bucket List for Families with 60 fun ideas to try!

I split the ideas into two lists; Free or mostly free activities and those that may or probably have a cost. Sometimes it may just be helpful to be able to easily see one list or the other.

There are so many enjoyable things to do in fall as the weather gets cooler and nicer to be outside.

What is your favorite fall family activity? Did I list it here? If I missed it, please drop me a note in the comments and I will be sure to add it to the list!

I also have a Winter Bucket List for Families and Spring Bucket List for Families and will have a Summer and when it is time so stay tuned!

Follow my Fall Fun Pinterest Board for dozens of ideas from all around the web! I am constantly finding new things to add so there will be new things all the time! There are even more ideas there!

Free or Mostly Free Activities

Take a hike and enjoy the cool, fall air.

Rake leaves; make it fun and jump into a pile of leaves.

Watch a classic fall movie.

Light a fire in the fireplace. (Here is a link to watch a fireplace on YouTube if you don’t have a fireplace)

Take a drive or a walk just to enjoy looking at the changing leaves.

Go trick or treating.

Have a campfire.

Collect acorns.

Throw a frisbee.

Try geocaching.

Make a list of things you are thankful for.

Open the windows to let the fresh air inside.

Take a bike ride.

Read books about Thanksgiving.

Look at the stars. How many constellations can you identify?

Make a leaf rubbing.

Have a fall picnic.

Go on a fall scavenger hunt.

Watch “The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown”.

Read a new fall book. Here is 23 Fall book ideas for kids.

Go through your warm clothes and get them ready to wear. Sort out what you won’t wear anymore and donate things that are still nice to charity.

Donate to a food bank or volunteer at a soup kitchen.

May or Probably have a Cost

Drink Apple Cider. Make Instant Pot Apple Cider or Slow Cooker or Stovetop Apple Cider.

Carve and/or paint a pumpkin Here are 20 Experiments and Crafts with Real Pumpkins to try.

Make caramel apples and/or candy apples.

Make a fall craft. Here are 51 Fun Autumn Craft ideas.

Plant some mums.

Go on a hayride.

Make a birdfeeder. Here are 10 Easy Birdfeeders Kids Can Make.

Play a new game.

Make an apple dessert or treat. Here are 100 Apple Recipes.

Go to an apple festival/harvest festival/fall festival; whatever your area calls it.

Make some chili. Here are Over 100 Chili Recipes.  

Roast pumpkin seeds.

Pick apples.

Make some fall decorations.

Light some fall candles or burn potpourri.

Make a pumpkin recipe. Here are Over 100 pumpkin recipes to choose from. 

Bob for apples.

Bake something with cinnamon.

Eat candy corn.

Try a new slow cooker recipe. Here are Over 100 Slow Cooker Recipes.

Pop some popcorn. Here are 60 Popcorn Recipes to try!

Decorate your home outside with haybales, cornstalks, scarecrows, pumpkins and mums and inside with your new crafts and even a fall tree (like a Christmas tree but with fall decorations).

Have a pumpkin spice drink.  Here are 35 Pumpkin Spice Drink Recipes to try.    

Go to a football game.

Make some pumpkin pie play dough .

“Boo” your neighbor. See how to get in on the fun; You’ve Been Boo’ed.

Visit a pumpkin patch.

Try your hand at making homemade butter. It is easy!

Get your Christmas pictures taken.

Buy some new fuzzy socks or gloves for everyone.

Eat some smores. Here are Over 80 S’mores Recipes.

Make applesauce.

Paint rocks.

Go for a horseback ride.

Try different varieties of apples. How many can you find? Which is your favorite?

Plant tulips or daffodils for spring.

Go through a corn or hay maze.

Make some fall trail mix.

Here is a printable Fall Bucket List for Families. It includes the list but you will still have to come here to the post to use any links.

Be sure to pin for later so you don’t forget what you want to do!

How many did you do?
What was your favorite?

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