Creating Autumn Memories with Your Grandchild
Written by Anne Feenstra
Here are a few creative ideas you can use to create autumn memories with your grandchild:
Drama
Be falling leaves.
“Oops! We’re falling, floating, down, down, down. Here comes the wind to blow us farther and faster. Now let’s be leaves blown along the ground….”
Places to go
- hazelnut farm
- apple farm (pick apples)
- salmon spawning ground
- pumpkin patch
- turkey farm
- corn maze
- spot to fly kites
Crafts
Special activities
- Apple party
Make candied or caramel apples; bake or cook anything involving apples like cookies, pie, cobblers, apple butter; make apple cider; dry apples.
- Pumpkin party
Make pumpkin cookies, pie, muffins, bread. Roast pumpkin seeds. Play “Pin the Nose on the Pumpkin” and go for a pumpkin seed hunt (seeds should be hidden earlier). For party activities wear orange, decorate pumpkin cookies, carve pumpkins or draw faces on pumpkins with felt pens. Turn out the lights and watch the pumpkins glow in the dark.
- Hallelujah party (instead of a Halloween party)
Have guests come dressed as Bible characters, play Bible trivia games, etc. If you like, eat foods people in Bible times would have eaten.
- Apple roast
Place the apple on a stick and roast over an open fire until hot and juicy.
Long distance grandparenting
- Send dried autumn leaves in the mail to your grandchild.
