101 Screen Free Fall Activities For Fall
My boys have been acting up a lot lately and I think that's partly due to the fact that they're spending an awful lot of time in front of the TV watching movies or playing video games.
I don't mind my boys playing video games or watching TV and movies but I do notice an increase in their bad behavior when it's time to take a break. It's particularly bad when we have to go to a store or run errands.
I've found myself putting a ban on all screen related activities for a bit and the boys were floundering around for ideas of what else they could do. So on top of my 45 Things to do This Fall I decided to some up with some screen free activities that the boys could do. There is some overlap between the two lists but I tried to come up with a lot more ideas of things they could do on their own for his list:
I don't mind my boys playing video games or watching TV and movies but I do notice an increase in their bad behavior when it's time to take a break. It's particularly bad when we have to go to a store or run errands.
I've found myself putting a ban on all screen related activities for a bit and the boys were floundering around for ideas of what else they could do. So on top of my 45 Things to do This Fall I decided to some up with some screen free activities that the boys could do. There is some overlap between the two lists but I tried to come up with a lot more ideas of things they could do on their own for his list:
- Hiking
- Trying a new recipe
- Painting outside in nature
- Going on a leaf hunt
- Visit a corn maze
- Bob for apples
- Paint faces with watercolor crayons
- Put together a puzzle
- Work on one of our boxed science kits
- Play a board game
- Read a book
- Make some fun dough, slime, or goop
- Draw with chalk in the driveway
- Go for a bike ride
- Visit a farm
- Build with Legos
- Go on a picnic
- Check out a local nature center
- Go to the beach
- Fly kites
- Collect leaves and small items to look at under the microscope
- Decorate a T-shirt
- Make a bird feeder for the birds
- Rake leaves into a pile and jump in them
- Make a bug hotel
- Build a fort-- inside or outside
- Make band bracelets
- Work on a modeling kit
- Make up your own scavenger hunt
- Make a marble maze
- Accept a Lego Challenge
- Go bowling
- Learn a new skill-- think knitting, wood building, sculpting clay, sewing
- Try a new sport-- football, field hockey, etc.
- Put together an obstacle course in the yard
- Climb a tree
- Play with stomp rockets
- Jump rope
- Plan a science experiment
- build with Keva blocks
- Nerf gun battle
- Play air hockey
- Build a maze for the hex bugs
- Play hopscotch
- color with markers
- use our scratch paper to make some art
- Make some leaf rubbings or leaf art
- Go roller skating
- Make apple prints
- Play fooseball
- Make candy or caramel apples
- Go on a hayride
- Write with a cipher to your friend
- Do some Yoga
- Play with animal play sets, water and shaving cream
- Play with Magna tiles and build something using glow sticks too
- Make a stop motion video
- Make some coffee filter leaves for the windows
- Go to the skate park with scooters and try some ramps
- Play at the playground
- Host a fall field day complete with activities
- Play with hula hoops
- Play ping pong
- Make a duct tape wallet, book or other craft project
- Make your own kite or windsock
- Extreme dot to dot pages or Word search puzzles
- Fill balloons with shaving cream for a shaving cream balloon fight
- Make a chain reaction with Popsicle sticks, dominoes or DVD cases
- Use sharpie markers and alcohol to make some tie dyed socks
- Make your own toy catapult
- Host a Minute to Win It game day
- Make Pop rockets
- Paint with Hex bugs
- Make your own bookmark
- Make your own sword with duct tape, tin foil and cardboard
- Try soap carving
- Do some CD weaving for a fun garden decoration
- Make pinecone animal
- Make a Thankful tree with twigs and paper leaves; don't forget to write what you're thankful for!
- Paint or decorate a pumpkin
- Make tin can or soda can luminaries
- Make a leaf bowl
- Make paper pumpkins
- Make a spinning Nerf target
- Paint and decorate sticks, branches or trees around the yard
- Make your own bouncy balls
- Weave with straws and yarn
- Make a soda top bracelet
- Go geocaching or letter boxing
- Use geoboards and elastics
- Make mud paint
- Write a story
- Make paracord bracelets
- Make a paper bag puppet
- Play with Pattern blocks
- Use paper and stamps to make a card
- Make a paper chain counting down until Halloween, Thanksgiving or Christmas
- Play with the tabletop pool table
- Make your own Zentangle
- Make a balloon and Lego car
- Play with snap circuits
What a fun list. I appreciate the time you took to make it.
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DeleteMaking a bug hotel would go along perfectly with my daughter's science studies. Thanks for sharing at the #LMMLinkup.
ReplyDeleteOh good! I love when our activities coincide with what we're already learning about. Thanks for stopping by.
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