Fall learning activities
Fun Fall Activities for Families and Students
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Fall, and all of the season’s beautiful colors, foods, sports, and festivals, is here. For all of us involved in our children’s education, fall is a pivotal time to strengthen skills, reclaim any learning losses from “summer slide”, and prevent student burnout early in the school year. Fall learning activities can be just what your family needs to make those shortening days seem longer and more fun!
Fall Activities for Families
Living in a place where the seasons change dramatically, our family loves to be outside as much as possible until the snow flies. For family fall activities, we take drives to see the changing colors, hike through the woods, visit pumpkin patches, pick fall fruits, and rake huge piles of leaves in the yard for jumping parties. Our favorite outdoor family fall activity, however, is a bonfire with s’mores and spooky ghost stories. Our best one ever included rehearsed performances of Edgar Allan Poe’s poems and short stories and a few homespun tales by the children, complete with flashes of colored flames at the scariest parts. What are your fun fall family activities? If you are looking for ideas, here are a couple more!
- Fall Scavenger Hunt: Enjoy nature while encouraging attention to detail (and maybe a little science) with this crafty family fall activity. Create a list of items you find outdoors during the fall where you live. As a family, take a walk around the yard,neighborhood, or woods looking for the items on your list. Try to include a leaf printable or samples to match for the little ones. Have each family member take a selfie with their discovered items and then create a fall photo collage together.
- Stargazing: Shorter days mean you can catch earlier sunsets and drive-in movies. You can also capitalize on the earlier darkness to learn a bit about astronomy together. We love using a stargazing app and identifying the planets and constellations as we bundle together in the cool night air with blankets and hot chocolate. If a telescope is available, even better!
Preschool and Kindergarten Fall Activities
If you have young children, you may be interested in finding fall activities for preschoolers and kindergarteners that can help build foundational skills.
These fall preschool activities can strengthen important reading, math, and science skills while celebrating the season:
- Fall Spelling Activity: For this preschool reading or kindergarten language arts activity, spell out a word like “Thanksgiving,” marking each individual letter on a separate leaf or piece of paper, if you don’t have leaves available. Place the letters on the ground and ask your preschooler to jump on each one, saying the letter name and/or sound. Ask your kindergartener to rearrange the letters in the big word to spell smaller words.
- Counting Fall Favorites: Kindergarten and preschool fall activities can also help with preschool math or kindergarten math. Find multiple copies of fall items (e.g., leaves, sticks, acorns, pinecones) to count. Ask your child whether there is more of one item than another. If your child is ready, take two small piles of an item and “add” by counting together.
- Fall Object Sink or Float: Preschoolers and kindergarteners can learn science with this fun activity.
Grab pinecones, apples, leaves, walnuts, stones, or mini pumpkins; then fill a large plastic bin with water. Allow your child to predict whether each item will sink or float and then test each one to discover if the prediction is right.
Elementary School Fall Activities
Fall activities for elementary school students can be both fun and educational. Here are a few that build on what elementary school students love:
- Fall Storytelling: Ask your child to entertain you with a fall story. Give them some seasonal items that must be included in the story and then enjoy the creativity while your child strengthens language arts skills. Remember to record the stories for posterity!
- Leaf Rubbing Art: Grow an appreciation for nature while enhancing math skills. Grab a white piece of paper (or tracing or wax paper). Have your child place the leaf underneath the paper and trace using a variety of mediums such as crayons or pencils to create leaf prints in rows and columns.
Then practice learning about multiplication through repeated addition and arrays.
- Fall Slime: Who doesn’t love slime? Making slime also helps kids learn science through sensory play and how different ingredients affect the outcome. For older children, this activity is great for building problem-solving skills when trying to figure out the right slime consistency.
Middle School Fall Activities
We can use fall activities to help middle schoolers strengthen skills with a seasonal flare. Try these activities with your tweens:
- Fall Writing Prompt: Activate your middle schooler’s imagination while strengthening language arts skills through fall-themed writing prompts like these: What does fall mean to you? Describe a day in the life of a leaf, pumpkin, or jack-o-lantern. What if the scarecrow in the field could talk?
- The Cost of Fall Fun: Practice math by asking your child to make a list for costumes, candy, and other fall-related items and calculate the total cost, including percentage discounts and taxes if applicable.
- Straw Skeleton: Learning life sciences and the skeletal system will be very easy with this fall learning activity for middle schoolers. Grab a piece of paper, scissors, and pieces of straw (or plastic straws) and have your child recreate the skeletal system and then label each of the bones.
High School Fall Activities
Motivating high schoolers through fall activities may bring huge dividends. Consider adding the following activities to celebrate the season:
- Fall Across the Country: While supporting both social studies and language arts, ask your child to design a project for learning about fall across the country: a research paper, a PowerPoint presentation, an artistic masterpiece, or some other project. In different locations, what seasonal changes occur? How do people celebrate fall in other areas of the country? How are fall clothing and food different in other regions?
- Fall Party Budgeting: Get your teen to apply practical math by budgeting the cost of their ideal fall-themed party.
Give your child a limit to the amount that can be spent and remind them to consider all the guests who will be attending. If your teen meets the budget, why not make the party happen?
- Fall Collections: Capitalize on your teenager’s interests and strengths by asking them to create a collection of music with fall-themed lyrics, design and draw fall-themed clothing, create a menu and cook a fall-themed buffet, or put together fall-themed objects and scents in a crafty potpourri.
With the right fall activities in place, you and your child will look forward to autumn, and bolster learning during the change of season. Enjoy!
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By Mindy |
Mindy Scirri, Ph.D., is a homeschool mom, learning (dis)ability specialist/educational consultant in private practice, and former professor and Chair of Education.
In addition to training general and special education teachers, her career has centered on working with children and young adults and their families to successfully navigate school and special education systems, develop lifelong academic and executive function strategies and skills, practice mindfulness-based stress reduction techniques, and build confidence.
30 of the Best Classroom Ideas – Proud to be Primary
The BEST fall activities for kids in a classroom setting include arts & crafts, fall science, and STEM activities, literacy and math ideas kids will love!
Fall is a bustling time in our classrooms. The excitement of a new school year is still going strong and our students are eager to learn. Apples and pumpkins, leaves and the changing seasons all provide wonderful themes for learning activities. Look no further! Here are 30 of the best fall activities for the classroom!
30 Fall Activities for Kids
Need some ideas to use with your students this autumn? Seasonal activities are the most fun! These ideas, activities, and freebies are the perfect inspiration for your fall lessons and are bound to keep your class busy and motivated.
Fall Activities for Kids: Arts and Crafts
Coloring, cutting, and pasting results in beautiful fall arts and crafts displays in your classroom. When the projects are completed, your students will enjoy looking at them in the classroom and proudly share them with their parents at home. Try these great ideas!
1. Children can learn how to read, listen to, and follow directions in this turkey directed drawing activity.
2. Take a little glue and salt, and add watercolor paints to create these watercolor fall leaves.
3. Toilet paper rolls can be used to create a unique leaf stamping project.
4. Take tiny bits of tissue paper and create a beautiful fall tree.
5. A fun craftivity for a fall farm unit, make a popsicle stick scarecrow.
6. Read an informative book about bats and try this watercolor art activity.
7. Celebrate the Day of the Dead with a sugar skull directed drawing.
Fall Activities for Kids: Science and STEM Activities
The following fall classroom ideas are full of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.
If you’re trying to incorporate more of these learning opportunities into your fall lessons, try these activities.
8. Mixing up ELA and Science has never been more fun than with this abundant unit. that includes lessons on pumpkins, apples, leaves, and more!
9. Apples are a healthy treat and make for a fun, hands-on inquiry unit. Add a delicious Science and sensory exploration to your lessons with this FREE apple resource.
10. Teach children about leaves in fall with a book about leaves and an activity to further their understanding.
11. Explore the concept of color and the understanding of chlorophyll with this leaf science experiment.
12. Learn about the life cycle of a pumpkin with these hands-on activities.
13. Try this fun falling leaf activity with contact paper that results in a unique piece of artwork.
14. Teach children about units of measurement with this fun corn and popcorn sensory bin.
Fall Activities for Kids: Literacy, Writing, and Books
Give children lots of opportunities to practice reading and writing in their daily learning activities.
A unit about fall most certainly needs a literacy and writing component. Take a look at these recommendations.
15. This is a useful list of children’s books about autumn that you may find useful.
16. Promote peace during fall holidays with this dove peace foldable writing craft.
17. Learn about Hispanic heritage with these book suggestions.
18. Practice upper and lower case letters with a sorting tree.
19. Here are some ideas for using the book Stone Soup in the classroom for teaching thankfulness.
20. CVC words are more fun to build on an apple tree mat.
21. Students grab and cover the appropriate letters on the pumpkin in this letter recognition activity.
Fall Activities for Kids: Math Ideas
Math is sometimes difficult to fit in when you are doing a fun unit theme. But in this case, plenty of Math activities abound.
22. These are the cutest turkeys to make and a great way to review the many different ways to represent numbers.
23. Practice counting and basic addition with this fall math worksheet pack.
24. Snack time can be fun with this roll-and-eat snack mat (for a nut-free classroom, use raisins or other small treats).
25. Apples, Johnny Appleseed, and apple trees make great glyphs and graphing activities.
Just for Fun! Fall Activities for Kids
Whether you are adding onto a themed lesson plan, or finding ways to fill in some gaps in your schedule, these activities won’t disappoint. They’re fast, fun, and easy to implement on the spur of the moment.
26. Learning about apples? This apple unit is full of fun activities to use in your classroom.
27. Keep little minds and busy hands engaged with these fall leaves activities.
28. It’s always great to have some playdough on hand, and these fall-scented playdough recipes are just perfect.
29. Torn paper, paint, and q-tips creates a fall tree picture that any child, regardless of artistic ability, can complete independently.
30. Let the kids sponge paint fall shapes to create incredibly easy artwork for the walls of your room.
These 30 fall activities for kids will help you once you’ve begun a fall thematic unit in your classroom, or just want to add some fun fall activities to your lessons. Try them with your students today, and have a fabulous fall!
FREE Fall Directed Drawing Activities
Try this set of directed drawing, plus writing and reading activities this fall! Use these activities, along with your read alouds for a fun fall lesson!
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