Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Things to do this fall

101 Things to Do This Fall
1. Go apple picking
2. Visit the country

3. Bake apple pie
4. Carve or decorate pumpkins
5. Bake pumpkin pie
6. Decorate turkey pinecones for Thanksgiving placesettings
7. Go for a hike

8. Make turkey handprint placemats
9. Knit or crochet something
10. Make something handmade for a Christmas present

11. See Disneyland’s Halloween decorations (the Haunted Mansion is a must!)
12. Go trick-or-treating at a theme park (Sea World has a great trick-or-treat party)
13. Play in fall leaves
14. Make a quilt (must fix sewing machine first!)

15. Visit someone in a nursing home
16. Write a letter to someone

17. Donate a turkey to a homeless shelter
18. Make a collection of your family’s Thanksgiving recipes to pass down to your children
19. Scrapbook
20. Go to the Drive-In Movie Theater
21. Visit the beach during a storm to see giant waves
22. Read a book

23. Make or hang a fall wreath on your door
24. Visit a pumpkin patch

25. Go on a hayride
26. Go horseback riding

27. Go to a football game
28. Make hot apple cider
29. Start Christmas shopping

30. Attend a parade
31. Visit a fire station’s open house
32. Attend a church’s Fall Festival

33. Host spaghetti night at your house
34. “BOO!” a friend (leave candy on their doorstep and doorbell ditch them … make sure they know that they’ve been “Boo’d” and that the candy is from you so they know it’s safe)
35. Host a football party at your house
36. Host a chili cook-off
37. Learn a new card game, like Canasta
38. Visit a farm
39. Shop at your local farmer’s market

40. Complete a large puzzle
41. Decorate for Halloween
42. Bake bread43. Attend your Alma Mater’s Homecoming
44. Attend an Oktoberfest
45. Take a train ride somewhere new

46. Watch a sunrise after a stormy day
47. Color
48. Make leaf rubbings
49. Go ice skating
50. Take a history tour of your city, preferably a haunted one!

51. Donate books to your local library
52. Read a Classic

53. Watch a foreign film
54. Visit a haunted house
55. Attend a carnival
56. Volunteer at your child’s school carnival or festival
57. Bake a cake or cookies for nurses to say thank you
58. Go ziplining among the fall foliage

59. Tell a ghost story
60. Send a care package to a friend that’s far away

61. Make cake pops
62. Put on or attend a puppet show
63. Write a story64. Take your dogs for a walk someplace new
65. Write down 10 things you’re thankful for and share them at Thanksgiving
66. Do something extra special for your child’s teacher
67. Read something inspirational or motivational
68. Play hopscotch in the garage on a rainy or cold day
69. Play Chinese Jumprope in the garage on a rainy or cold day
70. Do a crossword puzzle
71. Learn Sudoku
72. Make candles
73. Drink hot cocoa
74. Have brunch at a restaurant you’ve never tried before

75. Plant bulbs that will bloom in the Spring
76. Make something messy with clay or papier-mache
77. Make caramel apples
78. Play soccer

79. Go to a petting zoo
80. Make friendship bracelets
81. Paint or draw a picture you can frame

82. Build a fort
83. Have a campfire and roast marshmallows
84. Visit a museum

85. Take a carousel ride
86. Watch It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!
87. Attend a local theater performance
88. Make Apple Brown Betty and serve it with homemade ice cream
89. Take your kids out to “coffee:” Pumpkin Spice Latte for you, hot cocoa for them!
90. Take an art class

91. Paint something ceramic, like at a Ceramic Cafe
92. Frame school portraits
93. Play touch football in the front yard
94. Invite a relative you haven’t seen in awhile over for dinner
95. Create a new, healthy habit

96. Attend a craft faire
97. Decorate a spooky tree for Halloween
98. Make Christmas ornaments
99. Try pumpkin ice cream
100. Take lessons to learn something new, like how to play an instrument
101. Make a “Day in the Life” photo album with snapshots

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