Celebrate Fall With Your Kids: Autumn Equinox

September 23, 2022September 23, 2022Uncategorized, Unschooling & HomeschoolingLeave a Comment

Autumn is my little family’s favorite time of the year. My daughters and I try to make the most of it with outings, crafts, baking, learning, and lots of celebrating. As a child led homeschooling mama, I find the changing of the seasons are a great guide to creating yearly flow, learning opportunities, and happy little traditions.

Learning

Emergent learning is all about letting the curiosities about the environment take the lead in prompting learning! Seeing pumpkins, leaves falling, apples on trees, and all the fun fall themed environmental changes can be a great prompt for your child’s learning. Children learn better and more effectively when when the learning process is hand on and interest based!

“Children learn as they play. Most importantly, in play children learn how to learn.”
Fred Donaldson, Ph.D., play researcher

We love to integrate supplemental curriculum in our fall activities to learn more while having fun! Carving a pumpkin? Learn about the pumpkin lifecycle and parts of a pumpkin!

Shop My Etsy

A pumpkin patch outing is the perfect way to learn about a pumpkin life cycle and what a pumpkin plant needs to grow!

Help your littles learn new words and phonics with these cute autumn cards you can get on my Etsy here.

Fall Craft Guide by Mckenna Buck

[Not an affiliate for this craft guide, just love it!]

Gifts

I do my best to not make celebrations all about consumerism, so the gifts I choose are second hand or something the girls need or can learn with. For Autumn equinox, I am gifting my little ones organic fall pajamas and lovely fall books I want to read with them this season. You can also find lots of fun fall themed gifts at your local thrift or toy stores! [click the image to purchase]

Comment and let me know what fun activities you’re doing this fall!

Enjoy the free fall memory matching game and the fall scavenger hunt!