Fall worksheets & activities
Free, printable fall activities for kindergarten through 5th grade and special education, all about leaves, apples, pumpkins and animals getting ready for winter. There are no holidays here, so they fit any classroom all season. Each one opens in a worksheet maker with the Fall theme already chosen — keep our words or type your own, then print.
Color by word & color by number
A fall picture with a word or a math fact in every space. Students read each one and color it by the key, which is quick to check at a glance. Each sheet comes with an answer key.
Game boards
A fall game board with word cards to cut apart, from the squirrel at START to the basket of leaves at FINISH. Roll a die, move, then read, spell or use the word you land on. A good fit for centers, small groups and indoor recess.
Hands-on & multisensory
Activities students touch, build and move, which help a lot of early readers and many students with disabilities. Ideas for using them are further down the page.
Reading passages & writing prompts
Original fall reading passages for kindergarten through 5th grade, a story and a nonfiction passage for each grade — changing leaves, apples, squirrels, mushrooms and the monarch butterfly’s long trip — with comprehension questions and an answer key. Plus story starters, journal prompts and imagination prompts.
Fall picture book companions
Read-aloud favorites with vocabulary and comprehension questions for the beginning, middle and end of each book.
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Make it hands-on
Sensory bin letter hunt
Fill a bin with dry leaves, acorns, dried corn or shredded paper and bury the letter tiles. Students dig out a tile, say its sound, and build a word from the fall list on the table. Watch closely with small items.
Leaf walk word hunt
Take the word list outside. Students find something that starts with each word’s first sound, or collect a leaf for every word they read. Back inside, they glue the leaves beside the words.
Build it before you write it
On a Read it, Make it, Write it sheet, students make each word with letter tiles, playdough, pipe cleaners or building bricks before writing it. Building the word first gives them more ways to remember it.
Make coloring easier
Print color by word sheets at 11 x 17, use dot markers instead of crayons, or have students trace the word before coloring. A student can also point to the crayon while a partner reads the word.
Fall word lists by grade
K–1 · 2nd–3rd grade
Ready-made lists. Click a worksheet to open it with these words, then add, remove or change any of them.
Fall words for K–1
leaf, rake, nut, apple, acorn, pile, cool, seed, hay, fall
Fall words for 2nd–3rd grade
autumn, harvest, scarecrow, pumpkin, orchard, squirrel, migrate, chilly, sweater, season, crunchy, hayride
More fall ideas
- Visual schedule maker — Show students the plan for a field trip to an apple orchard or a pumpkin patch, step by step.
- Social story maker — Write a short story about a field trip or a fall festival, so students know what to expect.
Frequently asked questions
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