So, fall is upon us with the horrible skyrocketing numbers…26K people died in october from covid. And as of writing this post we are now up to a total of 8.82 milion cases. Thats almost 9 million people, plus their families that have been affected. Long term side effects, costly hospital bills, for those who lived could be awaiting them. SO, we need social distancing and STAY AT HOME activites for kids.
You could use any of these activity ideas for:
- Craft Days over zoom with cousins or friends.
- Mother Daughter or Mother Son Activities
- Immediate (house hold) family craft nights
- Something to entertain the kids while you sip coffee and read one of my covid-19 educational posts located here.
- Little cards of gifts to send friends you haven’t seen in awhile to let them know you are thinking of them.
- D these with your kids, post them on your social media and encourage others to keep their kids safe at home this fall! Help stop the spread.
Now, lets dive into the MASSIVE list of fun fall crafts that I have for you today!
DIY Educational Number Worksheets:
This is a great activity to use if you are homeschooling, or if the kiddos are hung up on a number that they just cannot seem to get. The TEEN family numbers can be hard. For more on teaching numbers you can check out our post here.
DIY Paper Rings:
My daughter came up with this project all on her own! Aren’t her paper rings so cute! She was wearing her diamonds around the other day!
DIY Mascaraed Ball Masks:
Make a mascaraed ball mask of a Halloween paper mask this fall for some added fun! This would be fun over zoom because then everyone could turn off their camera and flip them back on for a BIG REVEAL! YAY!
Paper Banner:
Design a paper banner out of construction paper that you can fold hotdog or hamburger style. Get some kid safe scissors and a kids safe hole punch for added fun! You can check out our kids safe hole punches from amazon here!
Abeka Academy Piggy Bank
This is one of the art activities from the K5 Abeka Curriculum we have been using! it is a counting pennies activity! So cute! You could use a real piggy bank with real change if you wanted to though! OR make your own diy piggy!
DIY Paper Plate Meals
This one was inspired by the abeka program, but then expanded and we did some at home with the whole fam (just immediate fam) Here are some of the plates, and dog bowls that were designed. For this you could have everyone draw their favorite food! My daughter was pretending to be the teacher here!
Lady Bugs!
Use those KID SAFE hole punches to hole punch out some black construction paper for the dots. Then cut out red circles for the bodies. You can draw the rest with crayon and add some cute googlie eyes.
Painting Pumpkin Portraits:
These pumpkin portraits are so cute! Have the kiddos paint portraits of family members in pumpkin form! If the family is distant, do it over zoom!
Pumpkin Painting and Glittering:
Pumpkins in Wagons Draw-a-Long
You can do the draw a long video with The Art Hub video here! We made this a mother daughter activity!
Ghost Draw-A-Long
You can participate in a Ghost draw a long with The Art Hub on YouTube here!
Decorate a Napkin
My daughter went through a phase where she was really into decorating napkins, but when I went to do the photo shoot for this post, the little bug napkin was the only one I could find.
Draw a Pumpkin!
Draw some pumpkins! Have zoom pumpkin drawing competitions! Draw them for fun! ETC…
Fall Paper Fans
Folding paper fans is fun for any season! Super easy low prep craft!
Halloween Imagine Ink Books
Halloween imagine ink books are mess free and SOOOOO easy and fun for kids to do! These are great go to activity books. They would also make great little halloween gifts. You can shop it on amazon here!
Fall Sticker Activity Books
Sticker books are great activities if you are needing a bit of a break or if you need a prep free activity to do with the kiddos! Shop fall activity books on amazon here.
Paper Pumpkin Painting
These are creepy vampire pumpkins made from construction paper and our favorite APPLE BARREL paint! We love this stuff because it is cheap and easy to work with. You can pick it up via Walmart grocery pick up or amazon! SO, Social Distancing ALL around!
DIY Pumpkin Envelopes
Here are a few square envelope how to’s. BUT we did some pumpkins on ours that were inspired by the above art hub video! So much fun!
Fall leaves Painting
Using the same Apple Barrel Acrylic paints that you can get while social distancing via grocery pick up or amazon prime delivery, we made these leaf paintings. So fall Festive! Have you liked how I used our pumpkins as background props? Something NEW I was trying!
Carrot Drawings
Finally we are to the last activity on the list! I really need to go back and count all of these before posting it! BUT this is a hand drawn carrot! How fun! Do some hand drawn veggies for harvest season this fall!
Thank you for stopping by the blog today to gather some fun fall stay at home activities! I hope you all enjoyed this post and have a great Halloween!
Brie
