Early Childhood Fall Activities

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

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

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

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.

Your preschooler will engage their senses by making a scented pumpkin to decorate your house.

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

This Halloween, encourage your child to create a super sweet mosaic. They'll make a candy corn pumpkin and then decide if they want to eat it, or keep it!

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!

Get ready for Thanksgiving by explaining the importance of the harvest. This craft is a great way for her to show thanks for all that delicious food!

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

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

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.

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

Your child can count out six pumpkins or six crayons, but what is a six all by itself? ThatÃs a much harder concept to grasp.

Here's a science and nature activity to help your kindergartener get outdoors and learn about the structure of leaves.

This autumn science project magically turns green leaves into autumn leaves by using crayon shavings and heat.

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.

Give your child some hands-on experience mixing autumn colors. All you need is a large piece of white paper and tempera paint.

Put those fall leaves to use with this fun art activity. Kids paint and print leaves, to make a beautiful tablecloth, perfect for your next fall celebration.

Apple slices can turn brown, but when they are coated with lemon juice the acid keeps the apples fresh. Here's how to help your preschooler experiment:

Boost fine motor skills and get in the spirit of fall with this fun wreath-making project.

Your child will create a textured mosaic by painting, then arranging 50 pumpkin seeds so they resemble a pumpkin.

Celebrate the changing seasons with this fun, hands-on art activity that will teach your child about the different colors of the seasons.

Help your kindergartener expand social studies and science work while creating this lovely bag clip for the holidays.

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 fall-themed missing letter activity is a great way to help your child learn the alphabet, build their vocabulary and bolster letter recognition skills.

This turkey hand activity will help your child practice patterns and number recognition, key concepts that she'll encounter throughout your child's academic career.

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