Fall Bucket List Ideas
Huge list of some great ideas to add to your things to do checklist
Everyone should make a list that you should set out to accomplish
List of stuff to do
I love me some list of stuff to do. Life goes so quick but it is still a good idea to put together a list of fun stuff you want to accomplish. Here are some fall bucket list ideas items I have now:
- Actually decorate for fall
- Go to a pumpkin patch
- Learn to cook a new hearty soup, stew, or chili recipe
- Climb a tree or take it to the next level with extreme tree climbing
- Go apple picking
- Carve pumpkins and roast the seeds
- Attend a football game (and tailgate)
- Organize a Spooky Pooch parade and dress your dog in a Halloween costume
- Get a 1000-piece puzzle with an autumn motif to put together on a chilly night
- Take a walking tour of your city
- Send notes to friends and family for Thanksgiving telling them why you are thankful for them
- Watch or attend a football game
- Take a bike ride on a scenic trail
- Get a special mug for autumn
- Expand your palate with a new fall recipe
- Have a chili cook off with friends
- Go on a hayride
- Visit a pumpkin patch and choose several pumpkins to take home
- Dress up in Steampunk attire for Halloween (Victorian science fiction)
- Attend a harvest festival
- Ride your bike around the neighborhood
- Apple Picking
- Watch leaves change colors on a scenic hike
- Have a marathon of “The Munsters”
- Go bowling
- Turn pumpkin into a kitchen staple
- Attend a cultural event that makes you appreciate modern conveniences
- Bake a pie from scratch
- Buy roasted chestnuts from a street vendor
- Decorate the mantle with a fall theme
- Go pick apples
- Bundle up and gaze at the stars
- Visit a local farm
- Enjoy some apple cider
- Go camping or just make a bonfire and eat smores
- Attend a Fall Festival
- Make Halloween-themed cupcakes
- Attend a family harvest festival
- Take a nature hike and take pictures of the beauty
- Try geocaching
- Listen to Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons – Fall
- Decorate your home for Halloween
- Take a fall family picture
- Organize a Halloween party
- Take indoor activities—like reading—outside
- Get some nutmeg, cinnamon sticks, vanilla beans, and cloves, and make Fall potpourri
- Go for a walk and take in the clean, crisp autumn air
- Listen to your favorite Halloween songs:
- Bake an apple pie–with a flaky, light, delicious crust–from scratch
- Go horseback riding
- Try a pumpkin spice or seasonal apple drink or dessert
- Try a themed fun run like the “run like hell” 5k
- Collect golden autumn leaves and use them to decorate your dinner table, windowsills, or any other surface you choose
- Host or attend a costume party
- Visit your local farmer’s market
- Jump in a pile of leaves
- Watch “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown”
- Plant a garden of vegetables
- Make caramel-coated apples
- Spend a Sunday afternoon doing nothing but watching football and eating chili
- Get a big bag of fresh Brach candy corn, and a big bag of mellowcreme pumpkins
- Go to Pumpkin Patch
- Find a foolproof recipe for a crock-pot meal or a hearty soup
- Go to a corn maze
- Make a scarecrow (here’s a good tutorial)
- Take a scenic drive for some ‘leaf peeping’
- Go to your nearest apple orchard and look for the best apples to take home
- Eat a cider donut
- Make spiced apple cider
- Rake leaves into a giant pile to jump into
- Launch an apple or try target practice in the woods
- Participate in a costume contest
- Put up a Halloween Tree and hang up ornaments shaped like Frankenstein, Dracula, skulls, and orange and black glass balls
- Take a walk down a trail you’ve never been on
- Paint a pumpkin
- Grab a cup of Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice Latte (Espresso, pumpkin-flavored syrup and steamed milk
- Carve your own Jack-0-Lantern
- Get a horn of plenty-a woven horned basket-and fill it with autumn produce such as apples, grapes, pears, potatoes, Indian corn, nuts, and wheat
- Host a bonfire with s’mores
- Bake cookies shaped like autumn leaves
- Incorporate cinnamon into your cooking
- Implement the “candy tax” if you take your kids to a lot of Halloween events
- Get crafty and try to make something seasonal using
- Make a Harvest Broom and hang it from your front door
- Make leaf art
- Update your fall fashion
- Go pick out a pumpkin
- Read spooky stories like “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” or “The Telltale Heart”
- Pass out candy to trick-or-treaters
- Have a horror movie night marathon
- Have a photo-shoot among the falling leaves
- Celebrate the colors of the season
- Bribe your kid to put on that adorable costume that is too small just one more time
- Start an impromptu football game
- Roast pumpkin seeds
- Take a trip to the zoo, drive thru safari, or an animal park
- Host a scary movie night or watch a back-to-school classic
- Go to Art prize
- Create a Halloween Village filled with creepy, scary Halloween themed houses, figurines and accessories
- Go apple picking with family and friends
- Bundle up and see a drive in movie one more time
- Do a nature scavenger hunt on a hike
- Have a marathon of “The Addam’s Family”
- Make your Halloween costume
- Get lost in a corn maze
- Get a large tub of water, fill it with apples, gather a fun group of people, and go bobbing for apples
- Go for a nature walk and enjoy fall colors
- Attend a fall festival
- Be the house with the best Halloween candy on the block
- Drink apple cider
- Take a day trip to a small town you’ve never been to
- Make vegetarian chili
- Make pumpkin cupcakes, or pumpkin pancakes
- Rake a giant pile of leaves, take a few steps back, run, and jump in!
- Visit a haunted house, or put together your own
- Eat a carmel apple
- Go canoeing or kayaking
- Find a few crazy friends and dress up like zombies
- Run (or walk) a fall road race
- Organize a game of touch football
- Try hiking in a forest preserve or state park