This fall bucket list is full of amazing fall activities to enjoy the beautiful weather and fall season! Tons of great things to do in the fall that are great for families or social distance friendly for larger groups!
Fall is by far my favorite season. The weather is perfect, the color of the leaves is beautiful, and my birthday is in the fall. And it’s the perfect time to host one of these fall parties.
Fall also brings with it the return to routines, cooking weeknight dinners, sports, and other things that fill our schedules.
Honestly, sometimes the beauty of fall gets missed in the crazy schedules. So I’ve put together this fun fall bucket list (kind of like this summer bucket list) full of things to do in the fall to take advantage of the beautiful season!
Plus, so many of these things are great for right now because you can do with them with your immediate family or social distanced with friends!
Fall Activities list
I’ve put together 30 different things to do in the fall to go on your fall bucket list. If you have other fall traditions or ideas, feel free to come up with your own to add as well!
- Play in the leaves.
- Drink apple cider.
- Make caramel apples or even better have an apple party and make caramel apple nachos.
- Carve pumpkins.
- Dress up in costume. These DIY superhero costumes would be great!
- Go for a drive.
- Make a fall craft like this happy fall banner.
- Bake something with pumpkin. I recommend pumpkin crunch cake.
- Decorate your home for fall.
- Read fall books. You might want to start with some of these books to read.
- Play fall minute to win it games.
- Make pizza pumpkins.
- Make a leaf art project.
- Go camping and play these camping games or do a camping scavenger hunt. Can’t get outside? Try some indoor camping instead.
- Go apple picking.
- Have a chili cook-off. I recommend this white bean chicken chili, it’s won many a cook-off!
- Boo your neighbors.
- Go on a hike. Take along this nature scavenger hunt for a little fun while you hike.
- Roast pumpkin seeds.
- Watch a Halloween movie.
- Play football.
- Make s’mores or s’mores bars. You could even setup your very own DIY s’more bar to try different varieties!
- Take fall photos. You could get real fall photos taken by a professional or take silly photos on this fall photo scavenger hunt.
- Send someone an orange gift. Orange is the color of fall after all.
- Do an outdoor scavenger hunt. Here are tons of scavenger hunt ideas to choose from.
- Have an orange themed dinner. This almond chicken makes a great entree and these pumpkin cheesecake bars would be perfect for dessert!
- Make homemade soup like copycat Zuppa Toscana or homemade chicken noodle soup.
- Try something new.
- Play Halloween charades. Or any of these other Halloween games.
- Make apple crisp.
Printable Fall Bucket List
I also created a printable chart you can just print and use as your family’s own fall bucket list. Keep reading for your free printable copy!
Cross the things off the list as you complete them! Complete them in order or just do them on your own time when it happens!
More Fun Fall activities
- Halloween food guessing game
- Halloween backdrops
- Halloween party ideas
- Monster milk and cookies
- Halloween Family Feud
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Franc Ramon says
I think a trip or time outdoors would be great fall activity for the family. It would be an excellent time to bond and create memories.
Tammilee Tips says
I love fall, it is one of my favorite times of the year. Pumpkin patches are one of my favorite things to do in the fall.
Savannah Miller says
Decorating pumpkins with my boys is always one of my favorite fall activities! They also love that night when we light them up, according to my boys it scares away the monsters
Jaime Nicole says
Camping is a great choice for us since the weather is pretty close to perfect! The nights are just crisp enough to sit around the fire and there is still not a huge threat of snow to keep us locked up inside the house.
lisa says
This is a great list. We always carve pumpkins together and usually make at least one special trip up to Michigan.
Jenn @ EngineerMommy says
We love doing family activities together in the Fall! We recently went apple & pumpkin picking- so much fun for the kids!
Alli says
Taking fall photos for our annual Christmas cards is a family tradition. We have the best and craziest memories of picture day. These are all great fall activities.
Alex says
Omg, love this! I have actually been looking into new traditions because things in my family are changing this year. Will try some of these out!!!
Fi Nà Neachtáin says
These are really lovely ideas. This year was our first decorating pumpkins but we always do some autumn themed photo shoots, I love the nature this time of year, the perfect backdrop 🙂
Chelsea @ Life With My Littles says
These are great idas! I also would like to suggest caramel apples! We did that last week and it was so fun!