Elementary School Fall Activities

This crafty activity will help your child develop an understanding of important math concepts like patterning and spatial awareness.

Help your child learn science and math skills like sorting, sequencing, and ordering while taking a nature walk and collecting and collaging leaves.

Help your learner develop her fine motor and communication skills with this fun and festive fall activity.

Roasting pumpkin seeds makes for a great Halloween activity, and a healthy snack!

Do something totally unique and new with a pumpkin this year! Practice designing patterns with stripes, zigzags, or geometric shapes. The sky's the limit!

This year, celebrate the season with a pumpkin wreath! Have your kid trace and cut patterns to create multiple pumpkin shapes from a single sheet of paper.

Layer images and handprint owls to create a Halloween painting!

This unique project will help your child learn the basics of assemblage and he'll create a perfectly festive pumpkin in the process.

With this hands-on activity, you'll show how fall colors are hidden in the leaf all year long!

Incorporate some math and science thinking into your annual fall fun with this pumpkin investigation activity! Your child will have a blast investigating various ways of measuring pumpkins, making estimates, taking measurements, and recording their findin

Learn all about cause and effect as your child experiments with an exploding pumpkin in this engaging fall activity! Get the whole family involved with this simple science experiment that is a fun and exciting way to combine Halloween and science.

This activity provides a solution to all those leaves on your doorstep, while also giving your child a fun science lesson.

Sweet potatoes lend a creamy texture and peppery seasoning gives a spicy kick in this fall hash recipe.

Reinforce your child's measurement and problem solving skills this holiday season! This decadent bread pudding, dressed up with pumpkin and warm spices, is a holiday show-stopper.

Decorating pumpkins is a safer, cleaner alternative to carving. These Cubist art pumpkins are easy and fun to make, and serve as great fall decor.

This adventurous art project will send kids on a scavenger hunt for fall materials they can use in their artwork. This craft also teaches kids about seasons.

Your child can emulate M.C. Escher with this hands-on art project for fall and Thanksgiving.

This simple and seasonal kid activity turns glue and food coloring into beautiful autumn leaves that will last forever.

These paper pumpkins will make lovely, festive centerpieces in your home this fall.

Celebrate the fiery colors of fall with a charming tree and a pile of wordy leaves.

This fun arts and crafts activity will help your child learn about the colors of the different seasons through the art of relief sculpture.

This fun art project is a great way to introduce your child to some basic geometry.

Have a little fun playing with food this Thanksgiving, and a silly harvest holiday potato with your child!

Dive into U.S. colonial history by making a simple bottle gourd water cooler, crafted by colonists of Roanoke Island in the 16th century.

This fall, make a leaf crown that will encourage creative play and your child's interest in the natural world while you help them build fine motor skills.

Create a fun fall leaf rubbing with your child to explore shapes and textures this fall.

Nothing says fall like pumpkin soup, but it's also really good for you, with high amounts of fiber, iron, zinc and free radical busting antioxidants.

Get started on an ofrenda for Dia de los Muertos with this easy edible sugar skull project.

Make quick sweet and salty walnuts, a delicious addition to fall salads and fruit and nut plates, or a simple afternoon snack.

Make a clay sculpture of a fall tree to celebrate the changing seasons and bring out the artist in your third grader.