Fall is my favorite season and so I thought I would share our family’s Fall Bucket List for Toddlers.  I hope you can read this and try some of these ideas as well as think of many others!

Fall Bucket List for Toddlers

1. Go for a walk and collect leaves of various colors.  While on your walk discuss the different colors and why the leaves are falling off the trees.  You can also touch on the month, season, and holidays that will be coming up.  This is a great opportunity to turn a simple activity educational.

2. Create a fall-themed sensory tub.

3. Go to a local farm and pick fall harvest items (apples, pumpkins, squash, etc.)  You can then go home and wash it together and prepare it for a snack or a meal for the whole family to enjoy.

4. Go to a pumpkin patch.

5. Catch a hay ride with the whole family.

6. Paint faces on pumpkins.  While painting faces on the pumpkins discuss feelings.  You can have your toddler show you different faces and how they feel when they make that face.  Remember to keep it simple.

7. Decorate your porch for fall.  My kiddo loves decorating, so this is a ton of fun for our family!

8. Bundle up and play in the rain.

9. Make cookies together… or your child’s favorite treat.

10. Cozy up on the couch with the treats you made and together watch Curious George: A Halloween Boo Fest.

11. Read Little Blue Truck’s Halloween by Alice Schertle.

12. Create a “Thankful Plate.”  Pick up a glass plate and using paint or Sharpies write or draw things that your kiddo is thankful for… then bake it in the oven and put it out on display for everyone to see.

13. Put together treat bags and deliver them to your local servicemen (fire fighters, police officers, doctors, etc.).  Explain what these people do to help others and that it is important to thank them for their hard work and dedication.

14. Fill the bath tub and have a finger painting bubble bath.

15. Make applesauce together with fresh apples.

16. Rake leaves and clean up the yard together.

17. Help your little one put on a little song and dance recital in your living room.

18. Have art time and create pictures of the four seasons.  Discuss the weather and how we dress for each season.  The possibilities are endless.

19. Create puppets and put on a puppet show.

20. Make fall flavored Playdoh then play with fall themed cookie cutters.

21. Create an ABC coloring that is fall-themed.  If you’re not super artsy, just google or Pinterest the idea and lots of things will pop up that should help you with this one.

22. Create a fall squishy bag.  To add extra fun, tape it to a window to let light in it.

23. Go bobbing for apples.

24. Craft a musical instrument.  Take an empty bottle (water bottle, etc.) and fill with corn kernels and then hot glue the lid on and have a great time.

25. Carve a pumpkin.

26. Bake pumpkin seeds then enjoy them together.

27. Save pumpkin seeds to plant a pumpkin for next year.

28. Do some Halloween Yoga for kids.  Great way to unwind.

29. Go for a drive in the car and enjoy the fall scenery.

30. Plant a tree.

I hope you enjoyed my list.  I had a blast creating the list and my whole family is super excited about it.  Be sure to leave a comment with any other ideas to be added to the Fall Bucket List for Toddlers.

Cheers,
Lisa