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    Last Modified: Jan 7, 2024 by Tara Gerner 1 Comment

    Fall Bucket List for Kids & Families - Free Printable for Family Fun

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    Fall bucket list - Over 100 ideas for kids, teens, families, and adults for the autumn season! Includes crafts, recipes, and lots of fun activities indoors and outdoors. Free printable.

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    Have you ever heard of a bucket list? I'm thinking that you probably have, thanks to the wonderful movie by the same name a few years ago (like eleven!), and its many incarnations all throughout social media.

    Just in case you haven't, the bucket list is supposed to be a list of things you want to do "before you kick the bucket."

    I've taken a little different spin on it, creating lists of things for families to do in the season that they're in, fun things to enjoy before the world moves on to something else, before life changes too much. You can get my winter bucket list, spring bucket list, and summer bucket list, all for families with kids, elsewhere on this site.

    Now that fall is right around the corner, I am posting my fall bucket list.

    As a full-time working mom and a professional mom blogger, I have to be really intentional about spending time with my kids. If I'm not intentional, our days and weeks would slip by, and I wouldn't have spent any real time with them.

    I mean, we're in the same house, maybe even in the same room, but I'm writing on my blog or talking to their dad or working at my job, and they're watching tv or playing Legos or Barbies or Minecraft.

    On their own.

    If I'm not careful, my kids and I can lead these parallel lives, and I don't take the opportunity to pour into them at all. Like I said, I have to be intentional about it.

    Hence the need for a bucket list for every season of the year. We can choose from the items on the list when we have little pockets of time or as opportunities come up. The lists give us a base, a starting point from which to make our time together fun and rewarding.

    As an aside, I am super intentional about scheduling fun. I make sure we do something fun together, all four of us, every single week, no matter what. (Well, unless they go on a weekend trip. Then I plan something fun for just me and Joe.) I have it written into my planner, I save money for it out of every paycheck, and I almost always make it happen.

    I have read studies that say children make incredible memories on vacation. We do take vacations, usually one big one per year with a couple of smaller weekends away.

    But what if we can build those incredible memories in little bites sprinkled all throughout the year? Would that not add up in their little memory banks to a childhood well spent? I sure hope so.

    Here's what's on the printable fall bucket list:

    1. Take photos of fall foliage
    2. Make apple cider
    3. Go to a corn maze
    4. Make an apple recipe
    5. Hold an apple taste test
    6. Go apple picking
    7. Go pumpkin picking
    8. Play backyard football
    9. Make a Halloween costume
    10. Go trick or treating
    11. Make a jack-o-lantern
    12. Paint pumpkins
    13. Bake a pumpkin pie
    14. Roast pumpkin seeds
    15. Bake a pumpkin dessert with fresh pumpkin
    16. Host your family for Thanksgiving
    17. Visit a chocolate factory
    18. Go on a hay ride
    19. Rake leaves
    20. Jump in leaf piles
    21. Enjoy a foggy morning walk
    22. Crunch leaves on an afternoon walk
    23. Collect acorns
    24. Make a fall wreath
    25. Visit a haunted house
    26. Go to the county fair
    27. Take a fall foliage drive
    28. Learn to crochet (This is the video I watched to get started.)
    29. Make spaghetti squash casserole
    30. Take family photos for your Christmas cards
    31. Cook dinner in acorn squash bowls
    32. Drink warm apple cider
    33. Tailgate before a football game (This is how my husband won my heart!)
    34. Make cheeseburger soup
    35. Burn a new candle (Honeycrisp apple cider is my favorite favorite!)
    36. Make candy apples
    37. Make wormy apple snacks
    38. Learn the history of Thanksgiving
    39. Roast marshmallows
    40. Make a gratitude jar
    41. Create a craft with beautiful leaves
    42. Eat corn on the cob
    43. Visit a farm
    44. Make beef stew
    45. Hold a family game night - games for non-readers & games for teens & adults
    46. Make tied edge fleece blankets
    47. Play hopscotch
    48. Paint rocks
    49. Hide painted rocks
    50. Go geocaching
    51. Collect food for a food bank
    52. Tell ghost stories
    53. Plan ahead for Christmas and go shopping
    54. Plan your next vacation
    55. Buy your Advent calendar for this year (We love the LEGO ones!)
    56. Stuff a scarecrow
    57. Camp in the backyard
    58. Go horseback riding
    59. Make trail mix
    60. Take your trail mix on a hike
    61. Eat candy corn
    62. Make a leaf scrapbook
    63. Enjoy everything pumpkin spice
    64. Visit a fall festival
    65. Make chili
    66. Build an obstacle course
    67. Create a music video
    68. Start a YouTube channel
    69. Read in a hammock (this is the one we have and LOVE - plenty big enough for 3 kids at one time)
    70. Eat dinner al fresco (you would know that means outside if you read Fancy Nancy)
    71. Paint your faces
    72. Try a new food
    73. Start a rock collection
    74. Do a random act of kindness
    75. Visit a farmer's market
    76. Sleep with the windows open
    77. Visit a flea market
    78. Make no bake cookies
    79. Watch the sunrise
    80. Watch the sunset
    81. Ride a ferris wheel
    82. Blow bubbles
    83. Hunt for cloud animals
    84. Fly paper airplanes
    85. Go to a museum
    86. Play frisbee
    87. Play hide and seek outside
    88. Visit the library
    89. Make a homemade pizza
    90. Grill a pizza
    91. Go to a free concert
    92. Go on a road trip
    93. Listen to an audiobook
    94. Outdoor scavenger hunt
    95. Photo scavenger hunt
    96. Make a map of the backyard
    97. Glow stick hide & seek
    98. Go to a petting zoo
    99. Make a nature collage
    100. Have a picnic
    101. Make a fall scrapbook
    102. Make applesauce and apple butter
    103. Make cookies shaped like leaves
    104. Go to a park
    105. Build a campfire
    106. Cook dinner over the campfire
    107. Make s'mores
    108. Go for a bike ride
    109. Nerf gun battle
    110. Go stargazing
    111. Do some learning outside
    112. Have a carnival at home
    113. Visit the zoo
    114. Have potato chowder
    115. Learn something new
    116. Make pine cone bird feeders
    117. Make handprint turkeys
    118. Organize a Trunk or Treat
    119. HAVE FUN!

    Grab the free Fall Bucket List for Kids printable below.

    I hope you and your family enjoy my Fall Bucket List! I can't wait to hear about all the fun apple, pumpkin, and leaf-related things you'll do from the list!

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    1. susan says

      September 05, 2018 at 3:09 pm

      This is super comprehensive. What would be cool is if there was a way you could indicate what year you did each of these items. Like have a fall photo album to go with the bucket list. It would be great photos too because of all of the awesome fall colors.

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