Easy Autumn Activities for Kids

What is there not to love about Autumn! With all the beautiful colours it’s the perfect time to head out to find natural resources to have fun with. Here are some of our favourite ideas…

AUTUMN CROWNS

I folded a piece of card in half and then used tape to make it into a circle to fit Noah’s head. He picked leaves up and popped them into the folded card as we walked to make his crown.

AUTUMN COLOUR WHEEL

See how many beautiful colours you can find!

FOREST FLOOR ART

Take an old sheet into the forest/woods and find all kinds of autumnal loot to make a picture. We love Forest Art!

AUTUMN LEAF PICTURES

Capture the colours of autumn and frame them! More ideas here.

AUTUMN ANIMALS

Make your own awesome autumn creatures with this super cute invitation to play. We’ve got lots more ideas for things to do with conkers, hazelnuts and acorns.

AUTUMN PICNICS

Head outdoors for an autumn picnic! A flask of warming soup often goes down well..

How about having a baguette battle picnic competition?

We’ve loads of Halloween Ideas.

AUTUMN LANTERNS

We made an autumn lantern simply by soaking leaves in PVA glue for half an hour to soften them and then sticking them to a jar. We then popped in a tealight.

LEAF ART

Collect leaves and use an old sheet to make your own fabulous leaf art,

AUTUMN WINDOW

Use PVA glue to stick autumn leaves to the outside of the window. Perfect for the little ones to explore.

BEACH ART

How about using a rake to make your own beach art drawings!

We love beach art. You have to see our ridiculously fun beach art it came from the deep!!

And see how we made a retro pac man game.

LEAF ANIMALS

It’s a perfect reason to head outdoors: toddler leaf collecting and play is so much fun.

LEAF ART

Collect leaves to make your own pictures !! see our cool ideas for leaf art here.

LEAF MOSAICS

Making leaf mosaics is fabulous! Take a look at our leaf mosaic fun ideas.

AUTUMN NECKLACES

For our autumn necklace we took a large needle with thin string attached to thread through the leaves we collected.

AUTUMN PICTURE FRAME

We used a piece of cardboard (a cereal box) and cut out a hole for the picture and folded the card so it would stand up. We collected leaves, laminated them and stuck them to the cardboard. We finished by printing a picture that we stuck to the card frame.