Autumn represents change. The leaves change and so does the moods. The summer is over and the winter is upon us. It is time to set up new resolutions, plant the new year around, pack for holidays or simply prepare to spend some great time with your friends and family.
The fall season also known as Autumn starts in the US from September 21 to December 23 preparing us for the holidays and the cold season.
Here is a list of fall activities for teens that you can enjoy as a teenager and as a parent where you can have tons of fun as a family.
Awesome Indoor Fall Activities for Teens
01 Carve pumpkins
Bring fall colors to your home with a fine carved fresh pumpkin. Pumpkin carving for Halloween is a tradition for many decades. Putting some candles or lights inside the carved pumpkin will make a haunted decoration for your house. Here are some carving ideas you can do as a fall activity for teens. Spending weekends as a family decorating your house with pumpkin lanterns will be an enjoyable family time together.
02 Make Decorations For Halloween
This is the season you can show your creativity to neighbors with Halloween decorations. Delight your friends, family, and guests easily with new simple decorating ideas.
03 Make a Door Wreath for Halloween
There are many wreaths you can create for all four seasons. For the fall season, you can make one with a Halloween vibe to nail down on your door as a nice decoration. Your options are endless where you can do a DYI wreath with your teenager and teach them about Halloween wreath making. Use the fall season’s special leaves such as oak leaves, pumpkin leaves for a more Halloween festive look.
04 Caramel Apple
Craving for a sweet treat in the autumn? Make delicious caramel apples to warm up in the fall season that can enjoy with your family as a dessert. It is easy, and sweet to make caramel apples with few ingredients at home. Making sweet treats is one of the wonderful fall activities for teens. Find out an eas recipe here.
05 Do a Halloween Photoshoot
While stuck in the home, you can do an autumn photoshoot and post them on social media to show you have styles. Time to hit the closet, make your photoshoot for the autumn with a Halloween vibe. To make your photoshoot more interesting, you can make backgrounds with things that are more available in the Halloween season such as fallen leaves, pumpkins, and witching costumes.
06 Game Night
It is always fun to play games with your family and friends at night. Now, most games can be played on your mobile devices or by PS5 and Xbox as multiplayer. Two or more players can join playing a game together makes the game more enjoyable. You can download the following app to use your mobile devices like gaming consoles to play on the same WiFi network. The most popular multiplayer games that can play as one of the best fall activities for teens are these.
07 Halloween Movie Marathon
Movies are always a good way to spend time with friends, and family while you are staying indoors. Watching a Halloween-themed movie marathon pumps up the spookiness in a crispy evening. Family-friendly horror movies can scare your mind off and it is perfect to make your Halloween spirits up. A few good movies for your Halloween movie bucket list are,
– Beetlejuice
– Interview With the Vampire
– Twilight
– Edward Scissorhands
– Twilight
– The Nightmare Before Christmas
– The Rocky Horror Picture Show
– Hocus Pocus
– Poltergeist
– The Craft
– Practical Magic
– The Witches
– The Witches Of Eastwick
– Sleepy Hollow
08 Make Smoothies
There are many choices for smoothies. Check what you have available in the kitchen or buy fresh fruits from the local market for a fresh chilled smoothie at home. Smoothies are ideal for a spooky breakfast. It is easy and healthy. If you are a teenager, you can make enough smoothies for your family and surprise them with your culinary talents. Few ideas for smoothies,
– Jack-O’-Lantern Smoothies (Made with pineapple, papaya, and carrots)
– Frankenstein Smoothie (Made with spinach and berries)
– Pumpkin Smoothie (As the name, made with pumpkins)
– Ghost Smoothie (Color of this smoothie is white so the banana is the ideal fruit)
09 Pumpkin Slime
Rip open pumpkins and take out the guts! It is easy to make pumpkin slime with a few ingredients that can be used with your Halloween decorations and it is a fun activity for teenagers. These fall activities for teens can be more interesting when parents are also joining in the activity.
10 Indoor Camping
In case you cannot go out in the wild for areal camping, it is fun to have an indoor camping night inside your house. You can make it more interesting if you have a garden outside your house by moving your camping party there. You may need a tent, a few snacks, and drinks with some blankets to have adventurous indoor camping. If you are a parent, you can introduce your teenager to the idea of camping before their real camping trip.
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11 Plan Your Trick Or Treat Map
Plan your spooky route, enjoy sweet treats and find out the best decorations around your neighborhood by planning your treat map before Halloween. Disappointing dark alleys without no treats make you feel sad and that’s why you have to prepare for the treasure hunt with a map.
12 Build A Pillow Fort
Pillow fort is your ultimate hideout for a cold crispy weather night then turn it into a wonderful place of your own for a perfect sleepover. Once your fort location is set, what you need is a few bedsheets, blankets, pillows, and cushions. You may need a stick for the middle to increase the height. For decorations, you can use a few string lights. Have your laptop inside & watch your favorite tv show or a movie while warming inside the fort.
13 Halloween Themed Dinner
Themed dinner always makes difference on your dinner table. Seasonal dinner with special dishes can be arranged in the fall season to add a new taste to your usual meal. You can easily make these dishes at home with few ingredients available in the market in autumn. Make sure your dishes are filled with orange color to make them more Halloweeny!
– Pumpkin chili
– Hot dogs
– Halloween cookies
– Pumpkin soup
– Carrot cake
– Butternut mac & cheese
– Apple cider
– Beef stew
– Mulled Cider
– Stuffed pumpkin
– Sweet potato curry
14 Make Your Halloween Costume
What am I going to wear this Halloween to scare everyone off? Have you thought about that? Yes, buying a costume online or from a local market may be a last-minute option but, you can create your mind-blowing creepy costume while staying inside with pieces of old clothes and materials if you prepare for Halloween a few weeks earlier. Making your unique design is the best way to satisfy yourself to haunt your neighbors and friends.
15 Roast Pumpkin Seeds
When you are making pumpkin cravings or puree or any other healthy pumpkin meal, make sure you save all the seeds until the end of the year to make a crunchy snack. Roasted pumpkin seeds are a healthy meal with Halloween spookiness is something you can eat while watching movies, reading books, or having an irresistible need to have a snack.
16 Play Board Games
Bored staying inside? As the fall season continues we find ourselves stuck inside our homes. Playing board games in the evening with your family can make you more comfortable and leave your frustration aside. If you are a parent of a teenager, you know how hard you to make them enjoy the time inside. Playing board games is a wonderful idea that can spend your time as a family and bond with them more. These are the most popular board games you can play in the fall season. Autumn-themed board games are also a good idea to enjoy the evenings more.
– Indian Summer (Autumn Themed)
– Key Harvest (Autumn Themed)
– Petrichor (Autumn Themed)
– Everdell (Autumn Themed)
– Monopoly
– Scrabble
– Battleship
– Jenga
– Backgammon
– Checkers
– Twister
17 Make A Pumpkin Pie
The rich smooth taste of the pumpkin pie is one of the favorite homemade pies in the Halloween season. This dessert is perfect for the Halloween dinner table to enjoy with your family and friends. Check out this link to see one of the best pumpkin pie recipes.
18 Stuff A Scarecrow
When you are traveling in the countryside you can’t miss scarecrows standing in the middle of farming areas. This scarecrow is now a seasoned decoration for Halloween for attraction. It is very easy to build a scarecrow with straws and a few old clothes. You can make the scarecrow more lifelike with a nice hat. It may get messy making a scarecrow inside, but is fun doing it in your garden.
19 Read Books
Reading jaw-dropping spooky horror books in the fall season makes your Halloween feelings dip into your blood. You can find lists of horror books on amazon.
20 Indoor Scavenger Hunt
Are looking for an adventurous indoor activity that can be done with your friends? An indoor scavenger hunt is a fun activity for teens to solve puzzles, solve brain-teasing clues, and make them think deeper about things. Read your clues round up your friends, start finding treasures and do a fall scavenger hunt for teens.
Fun Outdoor Fall Activities for Teens
The fall season is filled with more outdoor activities than other seasons which you can enjoy as a teenager while watching trees changing their leaves in the crispy chilled air. Time to step outside, keep up your festive spirit, and do some fall activities for teens.
01 Go Apple Picking
Fall is the time to harvest. There are many farms in most of the cities you can join for an apple picking adventure. Most of the farms give you a chance to pick apples without a charge. Grab your boots and a basket to go on apple picking in the chilled air.
02 Go on a Hayride
Hey, let’s ride! hayride is a traditional fun activity for kids and teenagers while haunted hayrides are more of an adult thriller. When summer has ended and fall has started, sitting inside a trailer behind a tractor in chilled air blowing around during a hayride gives you an exciting wonder about Autumn. Many farmlands allow you to go on a hayride with friends & family.
03 Jump on a Pile of Leaves
When there is a pile of leaves on the lawn, can you resist it? No matter whether you are an adult or a kid it is fun to jump on a pile of leaves. The fall season is the only season you can pile leaves because the leaves are changing in all trees.
04 Camping in your Backyard
Camping at night in chilled weather is a wonderful experience to have in the fall season. As an outdoor enthusiast teenager, fall camping is a must-do. All the states in the USA in the fall season have clear skies which you can stargaze while camping. The best states for camping in the USA are,
-Colorado
-Washington
-New Mexico
-Michigan
-North Carolina
05 Go on a Walk
Time to burn some calories. Go on a walk in your neighborhood in the chilled air for a few minutes and enjoy the view. You can use a headphone to listen to your favorite music while walking.
06 Hiking
When the air is cold, trees changing their colors, and crunchy leaves on the ground, it is time for you to do some physical activities before nature goes into a long hibernation. This is the best time in the year to make your walks more entertaining by hiking.
07 Bike Ride
Riding a bike or engaging in such activities always benefits your health. It’s easy to go on a bike ride in the crispy weather without getting tired. Riding a bike in the fall season makes your spirits up and you can watch how trees change their color while riding.
08 Pick Pumpkins
When the Halloween season is around, we always see the color orange everywhere. It is the time that pumpkins are riped and being picked from farms. It is the most bought vegetable in Autumn for decorating and making delicious pumpkin pies. Picking pumpkins is one of the most engaging fall activities for teens. Look for the perfect patch on the pumpkin before picking it to make sure that is riped perfectly.
09 Lost in a Corn Maze
Be in a-maze-ing adventure just by lost in a corn maze. There are many corn mazes available around USA & other countries as well that you can enjoy with friends and family. Exploring a labyrinth is the best outdoor adventure you can do in the fall season. These are the best-known corn mazes
– The Great Pumpkin Farm (NY)
– At the Barnyard Corn Maze (Lewistown)
– Akron Acres (NY)
– The Hellerick’s Family Farm (Doylestown)
– Pumpkinville (NY)
– Chad’s Corn Maze (Ligonier)
– Greg’s U-Pick Farm (NY)
– Brown Hill Farms (Tunkhannock)
10 Clean your Garden
The fall season is the time trees change their leaves. So, you know your garden gets filled with crunchy leaves on the grass everywhere. It is the time you do a garden clean-up to reduce problems with insects and animals. But there were recent research has shown that cleaning up every leaf litter is not good for the environment. It kills insects eating leaves and uses leaves as a warm place to stay during the winter season.
11 Do a Painting
Autumn is filled with orange, yellow, green, and purple colors. It is also the time of Halloween that gives a vibe of haunting creepiness. You may or may not have talent in drawing but it is worth a try. Take a canvas with watercolors outside and start drawing how leaves are changing around your town.
12 Participate in a Charity Event
The upcoming winter season after the Autumn will be a tough time for people that do not have at least their basic needs. You can change someone’s life during the winter season by participating in a fundraising event in the fall season. Engaging in such fall activities for teens is a better experience to understand and learn about helping others however they can. You can organize many charity events for fundraising.
13 Do Volunteer Work
In the crisp weather is around, you can participate in volunteer work as a teenager in the fall season. here is a few volunteer work you can do to help others in the Autumn.
– Bake goods and share
– Take underprivileged children to a trick or treat
– Weather care package for homeless shelter-less people
– Extra yard work for neighbors
14 Go buy your Halloween Clothing
The fall season is not far away. You need to plan what creepy costume you are going to wear on Halloween. You can make your costume from your old clothes but if you are busy doing other work, it’s time to go shopping for a perfect costume.
15 Do an Outdoor Bonfire
Autumn is the bonfire season. In the chilled air, with comfort food, light up the fire pit with your friends and family for a night of fun. Bonfire is a great outdoor activity in the fall season to cozy up and enjoy the view of stars in the sky and the night ambiance.
16 Visit a Haunted House
While others have pumpkin pies, and comfort foods inside the house, some of us like to have heart-racing activities on Halloween. Teens like to see what real ghosts are like but visiting a haunted house can create a similar experience for everyone. There are many scariest haunted houses in the US and other countries you can visit on Halloween.
17 Plan a Harvest Party
Celebrate the dawn of the fall season relaxing in comfort while enjoying the crisp air with signature fall cocktails and comfortable fall-themed foods. Invite your few closest friends to the party and make it a more enjoyable night while playing fall-themed games and doing other fall-themed activities.
18 Pack a Fall Picnic
Time for you to leave the indoors with your food basket and have a great time in the garden or in the park while watching how trees are changing colors. Make sure you bring your sweater because it is chilled outside.
19 Do a Pumpkin Carving Contest
Craving pumpkin is a classic Halloween activity in the fall season. You can do a pumpkin carving contest with your friends and give treats to everyone who has done the best creepy carving. Choose the scariest pumpkin, creative pumpkin carving, and the overall best pumpkin craving for prizes.
20 Go Shopping for Halloween Decorations
The Halloween season is filled with decorations. Carved pumpkins, scarecrows, creepy witches, and ghosts hanging outside the neighborhood can be seen everywhere. To make it more special than the decorations you have done in the last fall season, you can go shopping for Halloween decorations.