Looking for some great read alouds and activities for fall? This is a list of the best fall books and fall activities for kids. These will work great for kids from toddlers and preschool age to elementary age!
This list includes great read alouds for learning about the fall season. I separated the books into two sections: nonfiction and fiction. The nonfiction books are books with facts and a lot of information about the fall season. The fiction books are stories with characters, although some still have some great information on fall!
These books would be great to add to your own library or just to check them out at your local library for the fall season. If you want a complete list of books for easy reading or to take to your library, click here.
At the end of this post, I included some great fall activities! These activities can be done with any of these books and a variety of ages!
Fall Nonfiction Books
Fall Apples: Crisp and Juicy
This is a great book to learn about apples. The book talks about the apples in fall at apple orchards, how apples grow, and how to use apples. These books have a glossary and a recipe!
Fall Pumpkins: Orange and Plump
This is a great book to learn about pumpkins. The book talks about how to plant a pumpkin patch, how flowers grow to pumpkins, and how to use pumpkins. The book includes a glossary and a recipe for pumpkin seeds!
Fall Weather: Cooler Temperatures
This book is great to learn about the weather in fall. The book talks about when fall begins, how the weather changes in fall, and even charts the weather. These books have a glossary in the back and directions to make your own rain gauge.
Fall Harvests: Bringing in Food
This is a great book to learn about harvesting. This book includes fall goods, how food is grown, how food is harvested, and even harvest festivals. The book includes a glossary and directions to make a corn husk friend!
Animals in Fall: Preparing for Winter
This book highlights how animals behave in the fall. This book includes how animals get ready for winter by heading south, sleeping, or making changes. This book includes a glossy and an experiment for Blubber Gloves to learn how extra fat on animals help them prepare for winter.
Awesome Autumn
This is a great book with tons of facts about fall! The book covers everything from changing leaves, what clothes to wear, to how fall feels, tastes, looks, sounds, etc. This book covers everything you would need to teach kids about the fall season. The end of the book even has some awesome fall activities that you can do!
Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf
This is a great book to learn about trees. The book covers the life of a tree until it is planted. The book talks about all the colors the leaf can be, but the author’s favorite is how the tree looks in fall! This book ends with some more information on maple trees.
Fall Leaves
This is a great book that follows all the changes through the fall season to the beginning of winter. The book gives a lot of information that would be good for older children, but also you could just read the main titles for younger ones. The end of the book has a great activity of a leaf printing art project.
Full of Fall
This book is full of simple text about things you see in the fall. The book is filled with gorgeous fall pictures. This book would be great for kids of all ages.
Apples
This book is great to learn all about the apple: the history of the apple, how it grows, harvesting, and even ways to use apples. This is a great read aloud if you are looking to focus on just the apple!
Hello World, How Do Apples Grow?
This is a great board book for younger children to learn all about the apple. This book is simple but also gives a lot of information. The text is clear, simple and the illustrations are wonderful.
Fall Fiction Books
Hello, Fall!
This is a wonderful story about how a grandfather and granddaughter welcome in the fall season. The illustrations are great and the story is simple, yet meaningful. This story would be great for any age!
Fletcher and the Falling Leaves
This is a cute story about a fox that is worried about his favorite tree. The story follows the tree changing during the fall. This would be great for all ages!
We’re Going on a Leaf Hunt
This is a super cute book about going on a leaf hunt! This is great for younger kids and can even be read before you go on your own leaf hunt to collect colorful leaves!
How to Grow an Apple Pie
This is a story of a little girl that has apple trees planted when she is born. After both growing for six years, the trees are ready to grow apples. The story tells how the apple trees are prepared, how the apples grow, how to harvest the apples, and how to make an apple pie. The story ends with a recipe to make an apple pie!
There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves
This is a fall spin on the classic story. This is a fun story to share with kids of all ages.
Fall Leaves Fall!
This is a simple story about how trees change in the fall. The story follows all the things kids love to do with fall leaves. This is a great story for younger kids!
Tractor Mac Harvest Time!
This is a cute story from a tractors point of view. The story talks about the changes the farm goes through during the fall time. It talks about a pumpkin farm and an apple farm. It is more of a story but also talks about fall time so a great read aloud for students.
Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn!
This is such a great book to read at the beginning of the fall season. The character walks around and notices all the changes at the end of the summer season and how everything from animals to leaves are preparing or changing for fall. It is a beautifully illustrated book with simple text, so it is a great read for introducing a lesson.
When the Leaf Blew In
This is a fun read aloud for younger kids. It is about a leaf blowing into a barn and all the farm animals have a reaction.
Leaves
A simple and cute story for younger children about a bear seeing and being worried about the falling leaves, hibernating through the winter, and welcoming spring.
Fall is Here!
This is more for younger students or toddlers. The board book is simple, but has all the fall activities that happen during the season. It may be simple, but it gets to the point and might be the best option to introduce the fall season to younger children.
One Leaf, Two Leaves, Count with Me!
This is a great book to talk about what happens to trees throughout the whole year! As leaves appear and then fall off the tree, students can count along. This is great to use to talk about fall, but also to add in some counting practice!
Too Many Pumpkins
This is a longer story but still a good read. The main character hates pumpkins until she finds her yard full of them. Then she makes all kinds of pumpkin foods. This is a great story if you want to focus more on pumpkins and all the different ways you can use a pumpkin.
Apples and Pumpkins
This is a simple book about going to pick apples and pumpkins. It’s great for younger kids. It ends with going trick or treating so this could also be read during Halloween.
Fall Activities
Here is a list of great fall activities that you can do with children from preschool to elementary age. Some activities can even be done with toddlers!
Paper Plate Apple Craft: This is a super easy craft that younger kids would enjoy. Make an apple by tearing or cutting red construction paper and glueing it to a paper plate. Add a stem from brown paper and a leaf from green paper and you are done!
Bake an Apple Pie: Visit an apple orchard or farmers market and pick some apples. Take the apples home and make an apple pie! Read all about how apples are grown and harvested too. Click here for a recipe for apple pie and an apple pie sensory bin!
Bake a Pumpkin Pie/Pumpkin Seeds: Visit a pumpkin patch and read some books about pumpkins. Pick out some pumpkins to take home. With one of the pumpkins, make a pumpkin pie from scratch and back the pumpkin seeds for another snack!
Make a Bird Treat: Cut a shape with a cookie cutter out of bread. Poke a hole towards the top. Brush egg white onto the bread and press birdseed on it. Let it dry. String a ribbon or thread through the hole and hang it in a tree and watch the birds! Alternately, you could just use a toilet paper roll, spread peanut butter on it, and roll it in birdseed! For the directions for 3 DIY bird feeders for kids, click here!
Leaf Hunt: Collect all different kinds of leaves while taking a walk outside. This would be great after reading the book, “We’re Going on a Leaf Hunt.” You can also learn about different types of leaves from different trees and identify them while outside.
Leaf Rubbings: Use collected leafs to make art. Lay a piece of paper over leaves. Rub a crayon on top of the paper and the leaf will show up!
Leaf Paintings: Use collected leafs to make a painting. You can paint the leaves on one side and press down the leaves on a piece of paper. You could also just paint fun designs straight on the leaf!
Fall Mobile: Collect acorns and pinecones and twigs or branches. Use yarn to tie together the branches and hang the other objects from it to create a mobile.
Fall File Folder Activities: Use these fun fall themed file folder activities to celebrate fall while learning. These activities are best for toddlers, preschool, or kindergarten. The activities focus on colors, sizes, letters, and numbers. Click here to make them yourself!
Fall Sensory Bin: Create a fun sensory bin for fall! This is great for toddlers and preschoolers. Click here to check it out!
Fall Wreath Craft: This is a great craft for younger children or early elementary students. Create a fall wreath craft using found objects in nature or paper leaves and fall stickers. Check out the directions here.
I hope you enjoyed this list of fall books and fall activities!
Thank you for Continually Learning with us!
Kyle and Sarah
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