🍁Fall Activities and Stuff for Middle Regressors🍁
Go outdoors and stomp in some crunchy, dry leaves. Bonus points if it’s at an empty playground!
Pick out a spooky movie and have a movie night. It doesn’t have to be horror, there are plenty of cartoon/kids show Halloween specials that aren’t too scary! It’s even more fun when you have pizza or some other nostalgic food to snack on.
If you go to school/classes, you can pick out fun stationary like folders with characters on them, cute notebooks, and scented pencils.
If you don’t go to school but would still like a back to school experience, you can set up a little classroom for your plushies and read chapter books with them
Think of fun Halloween costumes to make. It doesn’t have to be expensive. A pair of animal ears for your favorite animal has never failed me.
If you don’t want to dress up personally but still want to make a costume, you can make some for your favorite plushies out of materials like craft felt or construction paper.
If there’s a farm near you, they might have apple/pumpkin picking!
Another outdoors activity is taking a nature walk! The trees look so pretty during fall, so make sure to bring some plushies so they can see them too! You can take pictures of them in the fallen leaves.
Speaking of leaves, you can find the most perfect ones and press them in a book. Just make sure they aren’t completely brittle or they’ll break!
You can go camping, for real or for pretend. I don’t like real camping, so I make a fort out of blankets and use an LED lantern and make s’mores in the microwave lol.
Go check out a thrift store for cozy sweaters and other stylish fall clothing. If you go close to Halloween, they’ll have interesting stuff that you can make costumes out of!
For some reason I find going to the library very nostalgic around this time of year, so I recommend doing that! Most libraries have middle grade chapter books.
Set up a cozy corner in your room with lots of blankets and pillows and plushies, for reading or gaming in!
Plant some seeds or bulbs for the summer. This generally works best outdoors, but if you don’t have a yard you can probably still have luck planting it in a flower pot.
Research the seasonal behaviors of your local wildlife! You can watch squirrels burying acorns, and birds migrating. Just be sure to do so from a safe distance,
Make something tasty, like candy apples or a sweet with lots of cinnamon! Make sure you have supervision if you need it.
