How to Celebrate Fall Without Halloween: 5 Meaningful Alternatives.
Discover meaningful ways to enjoy the beauty of fall without Halloween. From family-friendly harvest celebrations to faith-based traditions, explore fun and Christ-centered alternatives that bring joy, togetherness, and purpose to your autumn season.
Are you looking to celebrate the fall season without all the scary stuff?
There are SO many fun things to do as a family to welcome in the cooler season of Fall instead of Halloween. For most Christians, Halloween is just too dark and rooted deep in witch craft, so the search for alternatives commences.
Fall is one of the most enjoyed seasons of the year because it brings about cooler weather, especially if you live in the south. The change in temps are welcomed after a hot and sweaty summer.
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5 Family Friendly Fall Activities
Visit a Local Farm
Check your area for local farms that have pumpkin patches! This is always a Fall favorite of ours each year.
Harvest festivals at the farm are so fun with many activities for the kids. Some have flowers to be picked as well as in season veggies and pumpkins! There are many who focus more on the Fall season over Halloween. Just research the best option before making the trip!
Take a Fall Vacation
As homeschoolers, we have decided to vacation in the off months when places are less crowded. Also, the cooler weather is a plus!
You can try visiting a maple farm and learn all about how the sap is harvested to the cooking process of syrup. What a lesson in this as well for the whole family!
Another option is an Apple Orchard!
Do you have one near you? Or even make a weekend out of it! This would be an awesome family trip!
Picking apples together would be the perfect way to make memories that would last a lifetime.
Nature Hike
Nature hikes are adventure in themselves. Our national parks are some of the most beautiful sites to witness in person!
From the mountain peaks in Colorado, to the dense red wood forests in California, there are so many amazing things to behold.
Our God is an awesome creator! Our children need to see His hand in EVERYTHING.
You can find a nature park in your own state at the National Park Service, as well as learn the history of our country. This website is also a great resource for those homeschool history lessons!
Bake Fall Treats with Friends
This is probably my most favorite activity to do with my kids in the Fall and Winter months. We love pumpkin desserts around here so cookies, breads and muffins are a must do when the cooler weather returns.
I highly recommend Farmhouse on Boone’s pumpkin recipes, or her fall favorites. Everything I have tried from her, is amazing!
Another great find for baking, is Half Baked Harvest. She has some of the yummiest recipes, especially for the Fall season!
Step up your baking game by showing your children hospitality and invite friends and family over to take part!
Paint a pumpkin
This may be the most simple, budget friendly activity to do during the Fall months.
Painting pumpkins is a tradition around here!
The kids look forward to pumpkin season for this very thing!
You can find affordable paints and brushes at your local Dollar Tree or craft store.
Take a day and allow your children to pick out their own special pumpkin (faux or real) and then let them create a unique work of art for a porch display!
Fall Without Halloween. Fall with Christ.
When most of our culture looks at the Fall season as celebrating darkness, we as followers of Christ can be set apart for doing things for the glory of God.
We are in this world, but not of it. The Fall season is a look at the marvelous creation of our Father to bring in change in the atmosphere around us. The Old falling away and the new to be rebirthed in Spring.
There is so much to celebrate and do during the coziest time of the year.
Bring the light of Christ alive for your family.
To be set apart, is to be different, and there is nothing wrong with that. Stand firm on the rock that is Jesus.
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