Fall is such a beautiful season! Enjoy the cool weather, pumpkin spice, and autumn leaves with these fun family activities.
Apple Picking
This great family activity offers numerous developmental benefits for our kiddos.
Here is how:
- Encourage reaching for high and low branches to work on balance and gross motor skills.
- Apple orchards contain lots of different textures for sensory exploration, including the smooth texture of apples, the roughness of leaves and branches, and maybe even hay on a hayride!
- After, help your children count how many they picked or practice visual perceptual skills like sorting the apples by size and color.
Pumpkin Patch
This provides an opportunity to work on decision making by allowing our little ones to pick their own pumpkin.
When back at home, you can paint or decorate your pumpkins to promote creativity and fine motor skills via using stickers, different brushes, or even sponges as stamps. Of course, carving pumpkins is a phenomenal sensory and fine motor activity! Let your children help scoop out the seeds using their hands or a large spoon. Allow them to safely assist with carving by pushing in pumpkin cutter stencils to make a silly or scary face.
Need more fun fall ideas to promote growth in your kiddo? Contact our office.
