UPDATED FOR 2021!
What’s more fun than spending time with your family?? Spending that time completing fun Fall Family Challenge activities!
See how many of these ten activities you can do with your family and count up your points! You have the opportunity to earn a total of 44 points!
Two points each…
Watch a Halloween Movie Together
Halloweentown is one of my family’s favorite Halloween, though Hocus Pocus is probably a bit more popular! However, any Halloween movie will do!!
Bob for Apples
Need we say more?!?!? Bobbing for apples is a fun and easy activity to do with kids of any ages. I even threw vampire teeth in with the apples so the kids could pick between teeth or an apple (or both)!!
Three points each…
Bake or make something pumpkin-flavored
We love pumpkin muffins for breakfast and snacks at our house!!
Make fall decorations with your family
I have always done crafts and activities for every holiday with my own children and now I get to share the fun with my grandchildren too!! The kiddos were painting their own pumpkins instead of carving by themselves! Whew!
Check out this post for more fun family activities with YOUR family!
Four points each…
Look at pictures of Halloweens past and recall the good memories you had together as a family
I love pictures and photo albums and the memories Facebook offers us on a daily basis. I love reminiscing about the fun we had together in the past and planning new activities to do in the future!
Go through a corn maze as a family
We live in Southern Indiana and LOVE going to Holiday World for our summer and fall fun!! This picture if from the corn maze they have at the theme park during their Happy Halloweekends in September and October each year!
Five points each…
Carve pumpkins
In the process of carving the pumpkins…..
The finished Jack-o-Lanterns!
Roast your pumpkin seeds after you carve your pumpkins
Eight points each…
Our family and my previous Girl Scout Troop (previous because my girls are in college now) have always enjoyed collecting items for local agencies that are in need.
One of the agencies we have collected food, collected clothes, and worked in their clothing banks is the Evansville Christian Life Center. They have many services to offer people in need, including their food and clothing bank. What charities do you have in your area??
Donate clothing
Clean out your closet and donate items you do not use or do not want to a local clothing bank or homeless shelter
Donate food
Purchase and/or collect canned goods for a local food bank’s Thanksgiving drive or daily food services that they offer to those in need.
Total up your points by November 30, 2021, and share your total in the comments section of this page!!
Remember…you can earn a total of 44 points by doing all of the ten challenges listed above!
You can also share a picture of your family completing this challenge on our Facebook page!!
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Wow! Tons of fun activities in there – and I never thought to do the whole point thing before. I specifically enjoy the roasting pumpkin seeds or looking for pictures from previous Halloweens.
oh i absolutely love how you made up a points system and created a contest/challenge! as our family is quite competitive, I think we’ll score high this year! thank you!
What a fun idea for the family! Thank you for sharing
Great list of fun family activities for fall!
I love these ideas. We do most and have had various kids here in different years, so I always assure them they are now, forever, part of our Halloween memories
These are some fun ideas!
Amazing ideas! Will definitely try some of these with the family.
Such a fun challenge! Fall is my favorite season. I love everything about it, especially sharing the fun things with my family.
We do something close to this every year it is a lot of fun.
Great ideas! I love that you included donating to charity too! The family that plays, cooks, and gives together is super awesome!
These are all great ideas of fun Halloween and Fall things we can do as a family, we will have to make a challenge for our family!
Oh my gosh, this is such a cute idea. These are great activities to make sure you get in during the fall season.
Great ideas for the fall! I always love roasting pumpkin seeds after we carve our pumpkin. Yum!
Wonderful family activities & a fun way to inspire others!
These are great ideas! I especially like the idea of bobbing for apples.
Such great ideas for fall time fun! Thank you for sharing!
Great ideas for Fall family fun! And I like that you added donating to charities. Its so important, especially at this time of year.
I’m really big on teaching my children to help others. We do activities throughout the year and we always donate food items before we go on vacation, teaching the children if we have enough money to travel we have enough to do something for someone else.
What a fantastic idea! Food banks and homeless shelters are really in need this time of year. I will always cherish the memories of carving pumpkins with my kids.
I wish my kids would be willing to do these. I think they look like fun.
My kids have grown up doing all kinds of fun and silly activities and don’t know any different! LOL
Love a good fall checklist!!!
Love this idea! So original and creative. So much fun. I look forward to seeing the response!
Thank you and me too!!
Love all these ideas! I need to find a local corn maze!
What a fun way to spend time with family. I need to introduce my son to bobbing for apples…he would love it!
My kids have always enjoyed bobbing for apples…the youngest are teens now, so they are a bit less into it than when they were younger.
Great ideas! We bob for apples every year after trick or treat..helps take make-up off!
I love that!!
Love this list! Wanted to add you can take your unwanted/old towels and sheets to a local animal shelter or pet rescue place as they usually need them for bedding. Thank you for sharing! I’m a Nightmare before Christmas fan for Halloween Movies 🙂
I agree about towels and blankets. We have done that too. My younger daughter even did her Girl Scout Gold Award project around helping and donating to our local animal shelters.
All such great ideas. Those pumpkins seeds made me hungry!
I’m ready for pumpkin seeds too!!
What a great idea for the family! Thanks for sharing!
What a cute post idea! Such great ideas for a family trying to create quality time together. BTW my husband baked pumpkin seeds last year and left them in the over (oven off) for 2 days! He forgot to take them out. Yours look SOOO much better! 😉
Haha, my son went as a “cereal killer” a couple years ago! I love that you let your older kids trick or treat too! I have never stopped mine from going they all just decided on their own when they didn’t want to go anymore. My oldest even went at 18! Halloween is the best!