Kids Love Crafts ~ Create a fall sensory bin (dry corn, seeds, leaves, rocks, little toy trucks/animals) make some scented homemade play dough (apple, cinnamon, or pumpkin), using toothpicks and fruits build 3D structures, decorate pumpkins (using paint, glitter, and paper scraps).

Explore Outdoors ~ Take some selfies by the water (try to capture reflections), go for a bike ride (find a new bike trail), take family portraits in an orchard (then apple pick), find your pumpkins in a patch, leaf hunt hikes (find all the colors), use those leaves to do some leaf rubbings, find some perfect pine cones and drip with cinnamon essentials oils for a wonderful center piece, use a large pinecone to make a peanut butter and seeds bird feeder, build a fort with logs and sticks, make your own scarecrow out of old clothes (crumple some old mail for stuffing or use leaves).

Weekend Activities ~ Go on a haunted hayride (or a friendly one), try a corn maze (try it several different times taking different paths), visit local farm stand (many have activities, food samples or cider & shopping for fresh veggies is always fun), go to a local football game, host a cookout or picnic at a local park (bring corn hole or ladder ball), find a fair, carnival or festival, go camping, or stay home and build an obstacle course in the back yard, spend the day jumping in piles of leaves, sitting around a campfire, prep your garden for winter.

The Little Things ~ Pay for someones coffee in the drive-thru behind you, bake healthy cookies and deliver to someone who needs a pick-me-up, rake an elderly neighbors leaves, volunteer at a soup kitchen, purchase schools supplies for a child in need, donate food, toys, blankets at an animal shelter.

Inside Things ~ Cooking (make a new chili, soup, or garlic sourdough bread), have a family game night, bob for apples, create a fall scavenger hunt, snuggle up in a cozy blanket for story time.