From foliage to football, fall festivities invite your family to savor the season. There are plenty of activities your family can enjoy together as you have fun and make memories.

Visit a Pumpkin Patch or Orchard

Spend an hour or a day picking pumpkins or apples at a local farm. At home, you could then carve, color, or decorate your pumpkins or bake apple dumplings. Have fun talking about how pumpkins grow as you scoop out the seeds, or how mighty apply trees grow from the smallest seeds.

Attend a Fall Festival

Fall festivals often incorporate music, food, and fun. In addition to attending a local festival or harvest party, you could host a neighborhood event and celebrate the season in your backyard.

Explore Nature

Your family can explore the natural wonders of fall at a local park or nearby nature trail. You might choose to collect colorful leaves, create a nature journal, or identify wildlife. Additionally, your family could enjoy fresh air as you run a 5K, ride bikes or horses, navigate a corn maze, or play touch football. Or you may decide to take a road trip and explore America's best fall foliage drives or a haunted road.

Savor Seasonal Foods

The abundant fall harvest might spark your creativity in the kitchen. You can prepare your family's favorite fall dishes or try new recipes. You could also host a harvest potluck or soup cook-off for your neighborhood.

Get Spooked

Whether you tell ghost stories around a campfire, watch scary movies in the basement, or visit a haunted house across town, you can plan a spooky fall.

Take Photos

Ignite your creativity during a photo shoot or photo scavenger hunt. Your family can take turns snapping photos of each other. Or you could plan a photo scavenger hunt around your neighborhood to capture images of your favorite fall items.

Create Fall Decor

Art can enhance your child's curiosity, spark their creativity, and help them develop other critical skills. Consider using items from nature to design table centerpieces, draw wall decor or build scarecrows.

Share Gratitude

Since gratitude can boost well-being and happiness, your family can decorate notebooks and begin gratitude journals. You might also write thank you letters of appreciation to share with friends and neighbors.

Volunteer

As a family, you can rake leaves around the neighborhood, serve meals at a soup kitchen, or bake fall treats for friends. Such volunteer opportunities can teach your children essential life skills and reinforce the value of giving back to others.

Plan for Upcoming Holidays

In addition to writing holiday wish lists, your family could start purchasing gifts for loved ones or make homemade crafts and baked goods to share with others. This is also a good time to review your insurance policies as you plan to protect your home, family, and belongings now and into the next season.