Get creative with your fall activities this season and explore the world of STEM. Here are our favorite must-try printable fall STEM activities your kids will love. There are many ways to make STEM projects a key part of every season!
Printable Fall Activities For STEM
Click on the links below to find Printable fall STEM challenges and activities perfect for sharing with preschoolers, kindergarteners, and elementary school students. Our STEM projects always use easy-to-find materials and are easy to set up!
💡Looking for even more hands-on STEM activities for fall? Check out our complete collection of Fall STEM ideas here.
Fall Friday Freebie: Brain Breaks
Every scientist and engineer needs a brain break to keep the creative juices flowing! Try some of these brain breaks for a quick pick me up.
Fall Secret Coding Pictures
It is a fun way for kids to explore screen-free coding and algorithms. Fall animal coding pictures are fantastic for early finishers and quiet time!
Seasonal Temperature Investigation
Have you ever noticed how cool and crisp fall evenings feel compared to warm afternoons? Fall is the perfect season to explore how the temperature changes throughout the day.
Apple Fractions
Enjoy edible apple fractions! Tasty math activity that explores fractions with young kids. Pair with our free apple fractions printable for awesome fall theme learning.
Apple 5 Senses Activity
There are so many different types of apples to enjoy! Take the great apple taste test and see which apple is your favorite. So simple to set up and includes a free printable worksheet.
Balancing Apples
Explore gravity with real apples and paper apples for this fun apple project.
Dissolving Candy Corn
Our dissolving candy corn experiment is a neat fall science experiment that is easy to set up with only simple supplies needed!
Fizzy Apple Art
Baking soda and vinegar science meet art for one of our favorite STEAM activities. Add this to your fall activities and you can’t go wrong!
Fall LEGO STEM Challenge Cards
Get creative with your big bin of LEGO and these fantastic fall LEGO task cards!
Fall Coloring Pages (Science Theme)
These fall coloring pages explore the anatomy of fall and make the perfect addition to your next science or art lesson! Learn about the parts of an apple, pumpkin, and leaf with these free printable fall coloring pages. Great for preschoolers as well as elementary-age kiddos.
Fall Seed Investigation
Set up a fall seed investigation to explore the inside of some favorite fall fruits—like apples, pumpkins, and cranberries—to find out just how many seeds they have!
Fall Sink or Float Experiment
Why do some objects float while others sink? This simple fall sink or float experiment uses seasonal materials to explore buoyancy and density in a fun way.
Fall 5 Senses Activities
Exploring the five senses in the fall with young kids is both playful and an educational experience. Check out these creative and engaging activities to help you make the most of this season.
Fall Place Value Worksheets
Our fall-themed place value worksheets are perfect for kids learning about place value with 2 digit and 3 digit numbers. Designed with fall themes like pumpkins, candy corn, acorns, and apples.
Fall Pattern Worksheets
Patterns are all around us, from the stripes on a zebra to the alternating colors of fall leaves. The “Leafy Math Patterns” activity provides a fun and interactive way for young kids to explore these natural patterns while building essential early math skills.
How Does An Apple Grow
This great apple lesson plan includes parts of an apple activity, apple worksheets and helpful videos!
Life Cycle Of An Apple
Learn about how apples grow from a seed to become an apple tree with these printable apple life cycle worksheets.
Life Cycle Of A Pumpkin
Learn about a pumpkin life cycle with these fun life cycle of a pumpkin worksheets! Find out how many stages there are in growing a pumpkin and the parts of a pumpkin.
Pumpkin Math
Pumpkins really do make awesome tools for hands-on learning. There are so many pumpkin math activities you can try with even one small pumpkin. Printable pumpkin math worksheets included.
Stacking Apples STEM Challenge
Great STEM activities with real apples to go along with a favorite Dr. Seuss book. Free printable included!
Why Do Apples Turn Brown?
Why do apples turn brown makes for a fun fall science experiment for kids! Get kids thinking about how to keep apples from turning brown, and learn all about the oxidation of apples.
Why Do Leaves Change Color?
Find out what causes leaves to change color in the fall with this fun printable lapbook project. Our printable fall leaves project makes learning easy!
Bonus Fall Printables
Fall Would You Rather Questions
Have some fun with your kids with these printable would you rather questions for Fall. Great for conversation starters or small group activities.
Acorn Game
It’s similar to Battleship, but with a fun fall theme! This free acorn game can be downloaded instantly.
More Fun Fall Activities For Kids
We have also put together great
Printable Fall STEM Projects Pack
This 200+ page fall theme pack complements both the apple and pumpkin packs. There are no overlaps!
What’s Included:
- 20+ Fall theme science and STEM activities with printable sheets, instructions, journal pages, and useful information all using easy-to-source materials perfect for limited time needs. Includes a fall theme engineering pack with fun, problem-based challenges for kids to solve
- Leaf theme science activities include parts of a leaf, leaf coloring pages, leaf rubbing sheets, leaf graphing, and why leaves change colors information and lapbook! Go on a leaf scavenger hunt too.
- Pinecone Pullout Pack: includes pinecone life cycle information, science investigations, and more.
- Fall Screen Free Code Pack includes an introduction to binary code, algorithms, puzzles, and more
- Fall Art/STEAM Projects
- Bonus Fall fun pack includes games and activities to round out your fall theme activities, such as brain breaks, Would You Rather cards, mystery math pictures, and more
Loving that geo-pumpkin! What a fun twist on a geoboard!
What fun! I really enjoyed your top 10 for fall!
Thank you!
I really like the ideas on your groups pages, however they are so ad heavy they do not like to load. You might want to consider just having one video ad or two a page, because the way it is now, it is hard to really see anything. I do really like your crafts, though! Thanks! 🙂