Fall Crafts, Recipes, & Activities {50+ ideas}

We’re all spending a lot more time at home this year.

Here are 50+ ideas for fall crafts, recipes, and activities to help keep you busy all season long.

1. Build a scarecrow by stuffing old clothes full of newspaper 
2. Make paper bats, ghost, or pumpkins
3. Carve a jack-o- lantern, and think outside the gourd! Apples, bell pepper, and oranges can all wear eerie grins. Use your imagination! 
4. Try this cute fox craft
5. Make a wreath from fallen leaves, acorns, or pinecones
6. Make a DIY Halloween costume
7. This leaf family craft for preschoolers
8. Roast pumpkin seeds and try different flavor combinations (salt & pepper, cinnamon sugar, curry powder, chillie & lime…)
9. Build a haunted castle with empty toilet paper tubes
10. Carve a pumpkin ‘volcano’
11. Have the kids work on homemade Christmas gifts for the grandparents
12. Make buttered cheerios that look just like mini donuts
13. String up fallen leaves with a needle and thread to make a garland (Little ones can use plastic needles)
14. Make pennants of your favorite sports team using craft paper and glue
15. Build a DIY birdfeeder 
16. Decorate fall-themed sugar cookies
17. Make apple paint stamps or pumpkin apple stamps
18. Send postcards (or thank you cards) to people you’re thankful for
19. Press beautiful leaves in a book, or etch over them using tracing paper and charcoal
20. Use your fallen leaves  to start a compost pile (You can build the bin yourself)
21. Core apples, hang them on a string, let them dry
22. Use yellow, orange, red, and brown paint to make ‘leaf’ handprints
23. Try this easy salt crystal leaf STEM activity
24. Let your toddler collect fallen leaves and then cut them up with child-safe scissors
25. Fly a kite you make yourself
26. Build different paper airplanes and see which one flies best
27. Make smores and using different types of chocolate bars (You could get really crafty and build the firepit too!)
28. Make your own caramel popcorn balls or caramel apples
29. Pumpkin Spice Snickerdoodles
30. Plant flower bulbs for next spring
31. Make your own no-sew facemask
32. Paint rocks with fall colors or designs
33. Try origami (It’s surprisingly therapeutic)
34. Make a collage of things you’re thankful for
35. Make a candy cornucopia 
36. Mix-up some three-ingredient smores trail mix: mini marshmallows, chocolate chips & Teddy Grahams
37. Make thankfulness trees or turkeys out of construction paper. Write one thing you are thankful for on each leaf or feather
38. Cut paper spiderwebs 
39. Fall-themed sensory bin: fill a plastic bin with popcorn kernels, fake leaves, measuring cups, and fall colored pom poms
40. Bake these four-ingredient pumpkin apple dog treats for Fido (or your toddler that thinks they’re a puppy)
41. Have the little ones make ghosts by gluing cotton balls to paper or cardboard
42. Build Q-tip skeletons on black construction paper
43. Make muddy buddies or cinnamon-sugar Chex mix
44. Make a classic handprint turkey
45. Take up knitting/crochet, or teach the kids how to finger-knit
46. Make a paper plate turkey wreath 
47. Bake this one bowl, life-changing pumpkin bread
48. Draw a tree trunk on paper and make the leaves using fall-colored fingerpaints. (See if you can get the whole family to be a part of this one!)
49. Make this pumpkin slime using actual pumpkin guts
50. Thread a garland of fresh cranberries and popcorn
51. If you have pinecones near you, try making these cute little owls 

Want even more fall craft ideas? Check out our Fall Bucket List & Guide to Fall 2020!