Fall is here! The leaves change colors and the weather becomes cooler. These changes make the kids curious about their surroundings. The best way to answer their questions and encourage more curiosity is through play based activities.

If you are looking for the best activities to help them learn about seasonal changes and what makes fall unique while also building new skills, here are 10 super cool activities to try this fall.

All of these are activities that you can do indoors.

Art and Craft Fall Activities

  1. Fall leaves craft

Making fall leaves is a wonderful craft project you can do with preschoolers. Fall leaves can be made out of many craft materials, but yarn is a popular choice. 

You will only need some cardboard, yarn, popsicle sticks and glue to make this beautiful craft. You can also talk about colors in leaves and a bit of science behind it while making this.

  1. Finger Painting Forest 

Teach your children about the changing colors with simple and fun finger painting activities. 

Draw or print a tree and have them use their fingerprints for leaves. Use green, yellow, brown, and red paint all over the tree for the changing leaves and fall colors. 

  1. Create Leaf Stamps

Use paint colors and real leaves to create leaf prints on paper. Make abstract paintings or turn them into fall-related drawings and crafts. 

If it’s hard to find fall leaves, you can use foam leaves as an alternative. This is a great activity to develop a child’s fine motor skills. 

  1. Handprint art

Preschoolers love using their hands for painting. So why not use them to draw fall-themed pictures ? You can use fall colors to make hand prints and turn them into trees, leaves or animals. 

You can also make similar crafts and fall paintings using their feet!

Fall Activities To Develop Cognitive Skills

  1. Fall Sensory Bin

Create a fall-themed sensory bin with small fall-related items such as dried leaves, corn kernels, pinecones of all sizes and other fall items that can be found easily. If you can’t find the real objects, use small toys.

These can be great for exposing children to more shapes and textures in the fall and sparking their curiosity. 

  1. Indoor Treasure Hunt

Get some fall related toys like pumpkins, leaves, acorns, pinecones, squirrels and other kid-friendly items and hide them around the room. 

Have the children search and collect them all to complete the treasure hunt. If the kids are older, you can also describe the items rather than calling the names.

  1. Fall Matching Game 

Create a matching game by printing cards with fall trees, leaves and fruits. Use either toy replicas or the real items and have the children match them to the printed cards. 

This game can help reinforce visual discrimination, colors and vocabulary.  

Activities To Develop Vocabulary About Seasons

  1. I Spy… Fall

To help children use the new fall vocabulary they have learned, play “I Spy” with them.

This will encourage them to describe the colors, shapes and other related terms. You can use toys or real objects.

  1. Read Fall-Themed Books

Reading books is a great way of getting your kids to introduce fall and seasonal changes. 

Reading fall-themed books like “Full of Fall”, “The Leaf Thief,” “We’re Going on a Leaf Hunt” and other picture books can be fun and educational. 

This is also a good opportunity to talk with your kids more about these concepts. 

  1. Sing Fall Songs

There are many nursery songs about seasons and specially about fall. Singing these songs can be  fun and a great way to understand new concepts.  

My kids used to love the “seasons song” when they were young.

“Here comes the fall with the leaves changing color – Here comes the fall with the climate getting cooler

Here comes the fall with the leaves falling down – Here comes the fall with the wind blowing loud”

Wrapping Up

Fall is a colorful season. Whether you are surrounded by maple trees or not, you can enjoy these indoor fall activities with your preschoolers. They will help teach kids about the seasons and also build important early childhood skills.