Finding new creative ways to entertain your kids with every change of season can seem like a challenge. Kenny Leigh and Associates has compiled this list of fun fall time activities to prepare you for many days of fun activities with your children. As you go along, you are sure to discover that there are some activities on the list that your kids will want to do more frequently than others, so you'll likely find that many days will be spontaneously filled with pastimes that they especially enjoy.

Since autumn only comes once a year, it's an opportunity to get out and spend time in the cool weather and splendid scenery while doing many fun activities with your kids. Remember some of your favorite fall season pastimes from your own childhood, add them to the list, and give them a try with your kids. Chances are that they will enjoy them too. And, you will find that the more fun you're actually having, the more fun your kids are likely to have with you.

Another very effective way to ensure that your kids have a great time with you is to simply ask them what they really enjoy doing. In fact, your first fun activity could be to have them help you make a list of things they enjoy. Depending upon their ages and temperaments, they may answer that they want to do, "nothing". Or, they may list many activities so rapidly that you can't keep up to write them all down.

At Kenny Leigh and Associates, we want to help make it easy for you to identify ways to make the very most of your opportunities to have great times and make special memories with your children. We hope that you will use this list of activities to make the very most of opportunities for you and your kids to share delightful times together during this fall season.

Get Outdoors

Pick some apples
Go out and look at the fall leaves
Find your local corn maze and get lost in it
Go for a ride on a hot air balloon ride
Play touch-football
Go hiking
Take a hayride
Go out and collect some beautiful fall leaves
Rent a cabin in the woods or mountains
Go tailgating at a football game
Plant your flower bulbs for next spring
Have a foot race
Go for a drive through the countryside

Remember the good old days

Make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
Make a bird feeder from pinecones
Visit a bake sale
Borrow a book from the library
Make Rice Krispy treats
Buy a new notebook
Jump in a pile of leaves

Eat and drink

Shop at a farmers' market
Bake cookies
Cook dinner together
Make smoothies
Barbeque
Marshmallow roast
Make a big batch chili

Holiday

Make Halloween costumes for yourself and the kids
Visit a haunted house
Watch an old favorite scary movie on Halloween
Carve your own Jack O Lantern
Have a Halloween party
Host a potluck Thanksgiving dinner
Greet trick o' treaters

Just for kicks

Sit outside and chit chat in the cool air
Walk in the crunchy fallen leaves
Do some early Christmas shopping
Find a good spot to watch the birds migrating for winter
Make a bonfire
Gather pinecones and create a display
Go to a kid's league sports game
Go to a local fall festival
Take turns saying what you're all thankful for

More fun ideas

Day at the playground
Throw a Frisbee
Pitch and catch
Play Hide & Seek
Go to a live musical performance
Take pictures of fall foliage
Fly a kite
Go fishing
Go-carts
Miniature golf
Batting cages
Driving range
Badminton
Card games (Go Fish, Crazy Eights)
Board games (many, chess, checkers)
Play I Spy
Fall picnic
Bike ride
Flashlight Tag
Star watching
Puzzles
Children's crafts projects
Painting pictures
Kid-friendly exercise
YMCA activities
Lie flat and watch the clouds go by

As your kids grow, you may discover that you share mutual interests with them. You might even develop some hobbies together that you can do year-round. And, you are sure to establish some fall time events that will grow into seasonal traditions for you and your kids. In addition to the above activities list from Kenny Leigh and Associates, there is an abundance of resources for ideas on activities to do with your kids. With all these great activities, you're sure to have many special times this fall and throughout the year that you and your children will remember forever.