Simple Fall Learning Activities

Most children enjoy fall, so it is easy to get them excited about pumpkins, scarecrows, and other autumn themes. These simple fall activities include easy-to-use creative writing prompts, hands-on projects, and fun ideas. Best of all, they are simple to prepare which is especially helpful during the busy fall season!

Catching Kindness Bulletin Board

Decorate a bulletin board, section of a wall, or a door with a tree trunk and branches. Label it “Kindness is Falling Everywhere.”

Cut out medium sized leaves in red, yellow, and orange. Challenge your children to look for acts of kindness by others throughout the day. Each day have everyone share when they saw an act of kindness. The child then writes the kind person’s name on a leaf and adds the leaf to the tree. The parent can also be on the lookout for kindness to make sure everyone has the opportunity to be “caught” being kind.

Dress Like a Scarecrow

For some active fun, provide the necessary props to create a scarecrow (clothes, straw, hat, etc.) and have your children race to dress up like a scarecrow. Switch props and see if it makes a difference who finishes first. Discuss why.

See more ideas here: Scarecrow Unit Study

October Writing Prompts

• A Perfect Fall Weekend
• October is for Outdoors!
• The Disappearing Scarecrow
• A Surprise in the Leaf Pile
• Football is Fabulous!

If you are looking for fun autumn-themed writing prompts, check out my Scarecrow Writing Prompts and Apple Writing Prompts & Papers.

Pumpkin Writing Prompts

• Invasion of the Pumpkin People
• The Pumpkin Pie Caper
• My Prize Winning Pumpkin Patch
• The Year of the Polka Dot Pumpkin
• Too Many Pumpkins!

See more pumpkin-themed ideas here: Pumpkin Unit Study

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