This is a long list where you can do activities outdoors or indoors. Some may take a few minutes or be a morning or full-day activity.
- Throw a football party to watch the game. To save money, have a potluck and have everyone bring something. Play it in the backyard/park.
- Watch Halloween/Fall/Horror movies
- Watch a new show
- Check the kids’ school calenders for events
- Tell ghost stories (around the campfire)
- Trick or treating & Halloween party
- Visit Oktoberfest (Munich or Kitchener, Ontario – have different dates)
- Start a journal
- Change your sheets to a soft and warm flannel
- Curl up with a good book (read by the fireplace if have one or read it outside)
- Check out fall books from the library
- Do a random act of kindness
- Send thank you cards
- Have a pumpkin carving contest
- Go to a thrift store and find vintage Halloween costumes
- Make your own Halloween costumes
- Take your own fall pictures
- Visit your local library [good any time of the year]
- Attend a library program
- Learn how to knit
- Create your own/go to a haunted house
- Write some little happy fall notes to your friends
- Stay in a B&B with views of foliage
- Visit a local candle shop
- Invite friends for dinner
- A hot bath with candles and a glass of red
- A weekend trip before it gets too cold
- Open the windows to let the crisp air in
- Stuff/make a scarecrow
- Go scarecrow spotting
- Collect acorns, leaves or pinecones
- Go on a spooky graveyard tour
- Go for a (foggy morning) walk
- Relax by the fireplace
- Watch a movie under the blanket on a rainy day
- Take pictures at the leaves colours
- Jump in puddles
- Fly kites
- Put together a large puzzle
- Go hiking
- Burn candles
- Paint gourds
- Plant a fall garden
- Go on a scavenger hunt
- Go for a bike ride
- Snuggle under a blanket and stargaze
- Go to a (petting) zoo
- Do some learning outside
- Have a carnival at home
- Visit a fair
- Visit a carnival
- Fall photoshoot
- Go on a photo walk
- Take family photos
- Take photos of fall foliage
- Visit an apple farm
- Go apple bobbing
- Visit a maze
- Visit a hayride
- Build a fort with sticks and leaves
- Play outside at night with glow sticks
- Watch the sunset
- Play hopscotch
- Play a game of soccer
- Have a campfire
- Go camping
- Go to a fall festival
- Visit a sunflower farm
- Go horseback riding
- Go bowling
- Have a picnic
- Make a hot chocolate and popcorn stand
- Run in a race
- Have a candlelight dinner
- Go to a play
- Go to a museum
- Start an insect collection
- Start a fall journal
- Write and illustrate a story
- Get cozy
- Start writing letters to a pen pal
- Have a pillow fight
- Rake leaves for a neighbour
- Go to a drive-in movie
- Have a family game night
- Make a list of things you are thankful for
- Put together a puzzle
- Host a fall party
- Go to a corn maze
- Plan ahead for Yule/Christmas and go shopping
- Plan your next vacation
- Buy your advents calendar for this year
- Create a music video
- Listen to an audiobook
- Make a nature collage
- Join a book club
- Random act of kindness
- Go thrift shopping
- Make a ‘thankful for’ list
- Learn the history of Thanksgiving
- Update fire alarms
Great list!