Fall Learning Activities for Kindergarten

Fall is such a fun time for kindergarteners! With pumpkins on porches, crunchy leaves on the playground, and cooler mornings rolling in, students are naturally curious about the season.

This makes it the perfect time to bring hands-on fall learning activities for kindergarten into the classroom.

Seasonal activities help students connect their learning to the world around them, creating excitement, encouraging engagement, and supporting literacy, math, and fine motor skill development.

And the best part? Most of them can be done with simple materials you already have on hand.

DIY Classroom Games With a Fall Twist 

One of the best parts of fall activities for kindergarten is how easily everyday skills can be paired with seasonal fun.

Free Fall Bump Game

One fall favorite is the free Fall Bump Math Game: a free, easy-to-learn math game that builds number recognition, subitizing, and counting skills.

This is a no-prep activity that works well as a math warm-up, small-group game, or independent center.

Materials Needed and Prep: All you’ll need is the printable game board, a dot cube, and game pieces (plastic math cubes work perfectly!).

How to Play: This game is simple and easy for students to learn. It is perfect for students to play with a partner. Students will roll, count, and cover numbers, trying to be the first to use all their pieces. Detailed directions are on the game board.

Pumpkin Patch Math Race

This game is the perfect mix of number recognition practice and gross motor fun; your kinders will hardly notice they’re learning! All you need are a few simple materials to get started.

Materials Needed and Prep: You’ll need orange paper pumpkin cutouts, a marker to write the numbers, and dice. (Large inflatable dice work GREAT for this!) The prep work is simple, just write a number 1-12 on each pumpkin. 

Set-Up: Once your pumpkins are ready, spread them out on the floor like a pumpkin patch. The scattered layout makes the game more exciting and gets students moving as they search for the right number.

How to Play: Students take turns rolling the die, finding the matching pumpkin, and hopping to it while saying the number out loud. This builds number recognition, movement, and a little extra excitement into your math block.

Pumpkin Patch Points

This fall game is a fun way to turn skill practice into a little friendly competition. Students stay motivated because they’re “collecting points” as they practice letters, sounds, sight words, numbers, or math facts.

Materials Needed: You’ll need a set of skill cards (letters, sounds, sight words, numbers, or math facts all work), small manipulatives (such as acrylic fall pieces, pom-poms, buttons, mini-erasers, plastic math cubes, etc.), and small baskets or cups to collect points (optional).

Set-Up:  Lay out the skill cards face down in a grid to make your “pumpkin patch.” Place 1–3 manipulatives on top of each card—these become the points players can earn.

How to Play: Students take turns choosing a card from the patch. An adult or teacher flips it over, and the student answers the question or solves the skill (for example: naming the letter sound, reading a word, or solving a math problem).

• If they’re correct, they get to keep the manipulatives from that card.
• If not, the manipulatives go back on top, and the next player takes a turn.

Play continues until all the cards have been flipped. The player with the most manipulatives at the end is the winner!

This activity can be adapted for almost any skill you’re reviewing and helps build turn-taking, strategy, and motivation—all while keeping learning fun.

Fall Learning with October Craft Activities

October is the perfect month to bring a little seasonal magic into your classroom. It’s the first “official” season of the school year, and by now, you’re students have adjusted to the classroom.

What better way to sprinkle in that magic than with crafts that double as skill practice? Not only will you have adorable kid-made art to display on your bulletin board, but your students will be learning and getting fine motor practice.

These aren’t just “cute projects.” Each one incorporates math, phonics, or writing practice while giving your kinders an opportunity to be creative and have fun.

This set of October Kindergarten Crafts includes 12 seasonal projects (4 math, 4 phonics, and 4 writing). Every craft is print and go, no prep required! 

Crafts feature dotted cutting lines and large pieces so even the littlest hands can be successful. All you’ll need are the basics: pencils, crayons, scissors, glue, and construction paper.

Here’s what you’ll love most:

• Students practice skills such as numbers to 5 and 10, comparing more/less, 2D shapes, letter recognition, beginning sounds, ending sounds, and short a word families.
• The finished projects make adorable bulletin board displays.
• They’re perfect for Fun Fridays, schedule change days, or when you just need something engaging and purposeful.

Seasonal crafts don’t have to mean fancy supplies or extra prep work. With these print-and-go October crafts, your students can learn, create, and practice important skills while having fun with the fall season. Grab your October Crafts here.

Fall Learning with October Center Activities

If you’re looking for centers that keep your students engaged and working independently (while you finally get that small-group time your students so desperately need), this set of October Math and Literacy Centers is about to be your new best friend.

Inside, you’ll find 13 literacy and 13 math centers, all with fall themes like pumpkins, scarecrows, and colorful leaves. 

Every activity comes with a recording sheet and a kid-friendly “I Can” card, so students know what to do and can work independently while you meet with small groups. 

Each center also includes a worksheet that reviews the skill covered in the center. You can use these as an extra recording sheet, a small group activity, or for early finishers.

Here’s what’s included:

• Literacy skills like rhyming, short a families, sorting by syllables, ABC order, and sentence building.
• Math skills like counting within 10, number order, ten frames, making 5, 2D shapes, and extending patterns.

And because the centers follow a consistent format, your students can focus on learning instead of figuring out brand-new directions every time. The seasonal themes keep everything fresh and fun, so kids stay engaged while you get to focus on teaching.

These centers are the perfect way to keep October buzzing with excitement while giving you back your prep time and your sanity. Grab your October Centers here. 

Incorporating the fall season into your lesson plans doesn’t have to mean reinventing the wheel or spending your evenings buried in prep. With Fall learning activities, such as simple, no-prep crafts and easy-to-use centers, you can easily bring all the fun of fall into your kindergarten classroom without the stress. You’ll save yourself hours of planning while giving your students meaningful, high-impact learning experiences.

Grab the October Crafts here. 

Grab the October Centers here. 

Here’s to a month of pumpkins, leaves, and fall learning activities, please!