Fall Activities, Crafts, and Printables for Kids
Make the most of fall with your kids or grandchildren through hundreds of hands-on activities you can enjoy together. Pick from seasonal printables, games, crafts, and coloring pages, including plenty of options for Halloween and Thanksgiving.
Browse the sections below to find activities and resources for home or the classroom.
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250+ Free Printable Fall Coloring Pages
Grab the crayons and get ready for some fall coloring! Choose from free coloring pages for kids of all ages, with simple and detailed designs starring leaves, apples, pumpkins, animals, scenes, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and more. Each coloring page is a free PDF you can download and print.
Examples of our Fall Coloring Pages
Fall Letter Crafts for Kids
Adding hands-on practice to letter learning can help keep young children engaged with committing all 26 letters of the alphabet to memory. Get even more fall, Halloween, and Thanksgiving craft ideas below.
Alphabet Apple Tree Matching
Supplies: Green card stock, empty toilet paper rolls, dot stickers
- Make two large “cloud” shapes from green card stock to create the treetops.
- Write an uppercase A on one and a lowercase a on the other.
- Cut two small slits in the top of a toilet paper roll, then slide the card stock into the slits so it stands upright.
- Write uppercase and lowercase As on red, yellow, and green dot stickers, inviting your child to help if they’re able.
- Have them peel off the stickers and place each “apple” on the matching tree. For extra learning, count the apples on each tree together.
Letter A Apple Stamping
Supplies: White card stock, apples, washable paint, art tray, knife (adult use only)
- Cut an apple in half, keeping the cut sides as smooth and flat as possible for clearer prints.
- Print a letter A template and trace it onto white card stock or heavy paper. If desired, cut out the letter.
- Use a paintbrush to cover the cut side of each apple half with washable paint.
- Gently press the apples onto the letter A, then lift them to reveal the prints.
- As you work, compare uppercase and lowercase letter As, pointing out the lines and curves of each letter.
Leaf Art
Supplies: Leaves collected form outside, card stock, paint, paint brush
- Gather up one or several sturdy leaves from outside.
- Have your child paint the under side of the leaves (the side with more prominent veins).
- Ask your child to press the paint-coated side of the leaves onto a sheet of paper, leaving behind unique and colorful leaf prints.
Paper Sunflower
Supplies: Construction paper, marker, scissors, glue
- Cut out a circle from a brown piece of paper.
- Cut out oval-shaped semi-circles from the yellow paper to create the sunflowers petals.
- Cut out a long stem and leaf from the green paper.
- Have your child assemble and glue down the sunflower parts.
- Next, have them practice making the letter S shape in each sunflower petal, using a pencil, marker, or crayon. They may need to rotate the paper to write as they work their way around the sunflower.
30+ Fall Craft Ideas for Preschoolers
These simple fall crafts are designed with little learners in mind and use everyday materials you may already have at home or in the classroom. Adults should assist young children with cutting and other steps as needed.
Turkey Pudding Cup
Supplies: Sealed chocolate pudding cup, construction paper, googly eyes, liquid school glue, scissors
- Cut out 4 feathers from the construction paper and a small triangle from the orange construction paper for the turkey’s beak.
- Turn the pudding cup upside down, so the lid is on the table. Use liquid school glue to adhere the feathers onto the back of the pudding cup, creating the turkey’s tail feathers.
- Glue the googly eyes onto the front of the pudding cup.
- Glue the orange triangle onto the pudding cup to create the turkey’s beak. Then admire your cute feathered friend for as long as you can resist eating the pudding!
Fall Handprint Tree
Supplies: Construction paper, pencil, glue, paper plate, craft paint, clothespins, pom poms
- Trace your child’s hand and their wrist onto the sheet of brown construction paper.
- Have your child cut out their hand print from the paper. This will act as their tree’s trunk and branches.
- Glue their hand cutout onto a piece of white paper.
- Squeeze some yellow, red, orange, and green paint onto a paper plate.
- Get one clothespin and pom pom for each paint color. Pinch one pom pom into the end of each clothespin, forming a painting tool.
- Have your child gently dip the pom pom into the paint and dab it onto their “tree,” placing the paint around the branches.
- Once your child is done filling the tree’s branches with colorful leaves, let their creation dry.
Paper Bag Squirrel
Supplies: Brown paper lunch bag, googly eyes, black marker, construction paper, glue, scissors
- Cut out a longer bushy tail and two half-oval ears from the brown construction paper.
- Cut out two pink pieces similar in shape to the brown ear pieces, but slightly smaller.
- Glue the pink inner ear pieces on to the brown ear pieces.
- With the flap of the paper bag facing you, glue the ears to the back, top part of the bag.
- Glue the tail to the back, lower portion of the bag.
- Glue on the googly eyes to the square flap of the lunch bag.
- Draw on a nose and mouth with marker or crayon.
- Now put on a show with your DIY squirrel puppet!
140+ Fall Jokes for Kids & Families
Embrace some silliness this autumn with loads of family-friendly fall jokes for kids! This collection includes jokes and puns about pumpkins, apples, colorful leaves, fall foods, football, farms, Halloween, and more, plus printable jokes to share at home or in the classroom.
Why did the man go skydiving in September?
He loved the fall!
How do you know when winter arrives?
Autumn leaves!
What comes at the end of September, October, and November?
The letter R!
Where does September come after October?
In the dictionary!
Why does Humpty Dumpty love autumn so much?
He had a great fall!
What band is popular in the fall?
The Pumpkin Spice Girls!
What’s the easiest way to travel in the fall?
By autumn-obile!
What’s the cutest season of all?
Awww-tumn!
What did autumn say to summer?
“I’ll fall-ow you anywhere!”
Why should you put on extra layers on a fall day?
Sweater safe than sorry!
Why can’t autumn last forever?
Fall good things must end someday!
What do you say on the last day of autumn?
“That’s fall, folks!”
What do lumberjacks say at the start of fall?
“Sep-timberrrrr!”
Why was the poodle glad when fall arrived?
He was tired of being a hot dog.
200+ Fall Word Lists for Kids
Practicing with new words and learning their meaning is a great way to build early literacy skills, especially when those words are built around a season kids enjoy! Learning fall-related words can help children describe the sights and sounds around them, as well as build their vocabulary and language skills.
Fall Weather Words
| blustery | breeze | brisk | chill | cloudy |
| cool | crisp | damp | drizzle | fog |
| frost | gale | gusty | mild | mist |
| overcast | pleasant | rain | sleet | stormy |
| windy |
Fall Food Words
| acorn squash | allspice | apple | apple crisp | applesauce |
| apple pie | bread | butternut squash | caramel | caramel apples |
| cider | cinnamon | clove | corn | cornbread |
| cranberries | doughnut | gourd | grain | kale |
| maize | maple syrup | marshmallow | mashed potatoes | nut |
| nutmeg | pear | pecan pie | potato | popcorn |
| pumpkin | pumpkin pie | pumpkin spice | soup | spinach |
| squash | stew | stuffing | sweet potatoes | turkey |
| turnip | vegetable | wheat | yams |
Fall Words with Simple Definitions
Some of the words on this list may be unfamiliar to young children. Here are some basic definitions to help them learn what they mean.
autumn – the season between summer and winter when the weather gets cooler and the leaves change color. It’s also called fall.
burgundy – a dark red color that looks like red grapes or autumn leaves.
cornucopia – a horn-shaped basket filled with fruits, vegetables, and flowers, often used as a decoration at Thanksgiving to show a time of plenty.
crimson – a bright, deep red color, like a ripe apple or a red leaf in fall.
deciduous – a word to describe trees that lose their leaves in the fall and grow new ones in the spring.
ember – a small, glowing piece of wood or coal left after a fire starts to die down.
equinox – a day in the fall or spring when daytime and nighttime are the same length.
gourd – a hard-shelled fruit (more commonly thought of as a vegetable) often used for eating or decorating in fall.
overcast – when the sky is full of clouds and the sun is hidden. It looks gray outside.
quince – a yellow fruit that looks like a bumpy apple or pear. It’s usually cooked and used in jams or desserts.
Fall Learning Games and Videos for Kids
Practicing with new words and learning their meaning is a great way to build early literacy skills, especially when those words are built around a season kids enjoy! Learning fall-related words can help children describe the sights and sounds around them, as well as build their vocabulary and language skills.
A is for Acorn Online Coloring Page
P is for Pumpkin Online Coloring Page
Forest Number Sentences Addition Game
The Four Seasons Song & Video from ABCmouse
Activities for Fall Holidays
Halloween Games, Activities, Printables, & Crafts
Make the most of spooky season with Halloween activities for kids of all ages! Discover easy crafts, free coloring pages and printables, festive food ideas, games, music, and learning activities for celebrating at home, in the classroom, or at a Halloween party.
Here are a few examples of what you’ll find in our giant collection Halloween activities for families and kids:
Examples of Halloween Crafts
Paper Plate Black Cat
Use paper plates and a few simple craft supplies to make an adorable black cat for Halloween.
Paper Pumpkin Craft
Create a friendly ghost windsock using a paper cup, streamers, and yarn that dances and twirls in the breeze.
Examples of Halloween Food Crafts
Balloon Bat Craft
Make spooky-cute Halloween snacks with fruit, marshmallows, and other tasty ingredients.
Hanging Bat Craft
Decorate crunchy pretzel rods with colorful coatings, sprinkles, and candy eyes to create silly Halloween monsters.
Examples of Halloween Coloring Pages
Jack O’ Lanterns
Get into the Halloween spirit with jack-o’-lantern coloring pages featuring silly, spooky, and smiling pumpkins for kids to color.
Ghost Coloring Pages
Have some not-so-spooky fun with friendly ghost coloring pages featuring pumpkins, stars, costumes, and other Halloween favorites.
Examples of Printable Halloween Activities
Halloween Cats
Color cute Halloween cats dressed in costumes and surrounded by pumpkins, spiderwebs, witch hats, and other festive fun.
Halloween Word Search
Have some not-so-spooky fun with friendly ghost coloring pages featuring pumpkins, stars, costumes, and other Halloween favorites.
Examples of Halloween Sensory Bin Ideas
Witch’s Cauldron
Supplies:
- Plastic spoons
- Toy eyeballs, or ping pong balls decorated to look like eyeballs
Instructions:
- Mix green slime or water with potion “ingredients” like plastic spiders and bugs, googly eyes or plastic eyeballs, small toy frogs and lizards, and letter beads or magnets that spell out “witch” and “cauldron.”
- Add a wooden spoon for stirring, a ladle for scooping, and empty jars to fill with spooky “potions!”
Gourds and Ghouls
Supplies:
- Plastic spoons
- Toy eyeballs, or ping pong balls decorated to look like eyeballs
Instructions:
- Fill the bin with dried black beans and candy corn.
- Add small pumpkins and gourds in a variety of shapes and sizes, plus small Halloween toys like ghosts, witch hats, monsters, etc.
- Give kids small cauldrons or plastic pumpkin containers for scooping and sorting.
Thanksgiving Games, Activities, Printables, & Crafts
Celebrate Thanksgiving with a collection of activities for kids and families, including simple crafts, coloring pages, games, jokes, and hands-on learning ideas. With options for home, the classroom, or the kids’ table at the big feast, there’s something for all ages to enjoy.
Here are a few examples of what you’ll find in our comprehensive collection of Thanksgiving activities for families and kids:
Examples of Thanksgiving Crafts
Bubble Wrap Harvest Corn
- Brown paper bag
- Bubble wrap
- Craft paints and paint brushes
- Yellow construction paper
- Glue or stapler
- Twine
- Scissors
Use craft paints to paint the bubbles on the wrap in a variety of harvest corn colors, and let dry. Cut out the corn shapes from the bubble wrap and glue or staple them to the construction paper. Tear the brown paper bag into strips, and crumple them a bit to form the corn shucks as shown. Glue or staple them to the tops of the corn, then tie the bundle together with twine to display.
Personalized Placemats
- Crayons, markers, paint, and/or colored pencils
- 11 x 17 inch card stock (or legal-sized paper)
- Other art supplies as needed
Brainstorm with your child about what they can add to their placemat or a placemat they’re creating for a friend, such as pictures, designs, and their name. If you’d like, use our Thanksgiving color pages to color, cut out, and glue on images.
If you used glue or paint to create your placemat, be sure to let it dry completely. If you have access to a laminator, laminate each placemat to protect it from spills. Be sure to set the Thanksgiving table with your child’s placemat!
Examples of Thanksgiving Coloring Pages
Thanksgiving Turkey Coloring Pages
Thanksgiving Feast Coloring Pages
Examples of Thanksgiving Games, Jokes & Riddles
Thanksgiving Bingo
Thanksgiving Jokes
Thanksgiving Obstacle Course
Set up a series of obstacles for players to navigate, with a Thanksgiving theme, then complete them individually or as a team. Here are a few ideas:
- Pop orange, red, and yellow balloons by sitting on them.
- Jump from one paper pie on the floor to another.
- Toss small pumpkins into a bucket.
- Throw beanbag “stuffing” into a cardboard turkey with holes cut out.
- Collect turkey feathers scattered along the course.
Pin the Feather on the Turkey
With just construction paper, scissors, and blindfold, you can put a Thanksgiving spin on a classic game that every family member can enjoy playing.
- Cut a turkey out of brown construction paper, but don’t include feathers. Instead, cut individual feathers out of colorful paper. When it’s time to play, hang the turkey on the wall.
- Blindfold players and have them stand about 10 feet away (try shorter distances for younger kids).
- Give them a feather with a piece of tape attached, then spin them around three times and aim them toward the turkey.
- Their goal is to make it to the wall and attach the feathers in the right place!
That’s Not All! Our Thanksgiving collection also includes Thanksgiving riddles, hands-on Thanksgiving learning activities, and printable Thanksgiving worksheets.
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