Today – family things to do in Autumn on a budget
More family things to do in Autumn on a budget
32. Donate an autumn bundle of warm clothes to a local homeless shelter
33. Make an autumn wreath
34. Make a spooky sofa den
35. Bird spot in your garden and keep a tally of the birds you see
36. Make back to school crafts
37. Visit your library and stock up on books
38. Make a scarecrow
39. Go to a harvest festival
40. Go to a scarecrow festival ( these are often amazing!)
41, Photograph the tress as they change and watch the season unfold
42. Go puddle jumping
43. Walk in the woods and collect treasures for Autumn Crafting
44. Buy a new board game from a thrift shop
45. Do a huge family jigsaw
46. Do some junk modelling from your recycling bin
47. Make a home for the hedgehogs
48. Go on a woodland walk and make a journey stick
49. Make some fabulous bat crafts
50. Try you hand at blackberry tie dye and make some blackberry lollies too
51. How about some non-scary monster crafting
52. Have a DVD swap with family friends
53. Save your garden seeds
Even more family things to do in Autumn on a budget
54. Use up up your leftovers and make warm banana muffins
55. Wrap up warm and make the most of your local parks
56. Make a yummy apple and cinnamon loaf
57. How about some clay pressing with natural materials
58. How about making an autumn Hama bead tea light holder
59. A leaf dream catcher is such a lovely idea
60. Create an Autumn discovery bottle
61. Make yummy butternut squash soup
62. Try you hand at leaf printing
63. Welcome Autumn with open arms – write a family list of all the things you love about Autumn
64. Make autumn leaf bowls from clay
65. Create some autumn bunting to hang over your fireplace 0 include leaves of all colours, pinecones, feathers etc.
66. Make a nature craft bookmark
67. Craft a birthday card from leaves
68. Make a spooky and super simple ghost craft for Halloween
69. Make an easy stop animation film with nature ( so much fun and easier than it sounds)
70. House swap with a friend who lives in another city for a thrifty October half term holiday
71. Make an autumn leaf crown
72. Feed the ducks
73. Take a family bike ride
74. Print out photos of your summer adventures and pop them into an album
75. Make your own cinnamon play dough ( your house will smell heavenly!)
78. Make your home smell like autumn
79. Read 101 things to do on a rainy day
81. Write an autumn poem
82. Make a leaf lantern
83. Do some autumnal colouring
84.Recycle a milk bottle into a ghost
85. Play this fabulous nuts game
86. How about a night walk?
87. A scavenger hunt in the woods
88. Visit your lovely national trust properties and take in the beautiful parklamds
89. You have to make an apple crumble it’s Autumn it’s in the rules!
90. Ooh and how about these watercolour leaf bookmarks
91. How about making fairy bottle with teeny tiny nature finds
92. Donate a food parcel to your local food bank and share your harvest
93. Make some blackberry jam to have with toast and tea for Autumn suppers
94. make drought excluder snake from an old pair of tights to keep out the cold
95. Find a local, free, organised bonfire party to attend
96. Stand under a tree in the wind and see who can catch the most leaves
97. Try making these spooky spider plants
98. How about some chattering ghost bunting!
99. Ooh how about making a witches cauldron cake
100. Or how about finding out how to make a twig boat !
I hope these family things to do in Autumn on a budget are enough to keep you busy! happy Autumn everyone 🙂 If you want to learn How to stop being busy with other stuff so you can enjoy the good stuff take a read of my post
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I do hope you enjoyed my post on family things to do in Autumn on a budget. You might also like my Guide to nature Play and my back to school on a budget post
what a fantastic list! so many amazing crafts and recipes and things to do, Love it
thank you for including me x
thankyou so much for your wonderful bakes
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This is a fab list! Love our library visits in the autumn.
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Oh yes!
This is a brilliant list! I’m quite pleased we’ve already done a few of these but will save this for later and make sure we do a few more of them over the Autumn 🙂