Fun Fall Activities to Do With a Senior Citizen

The change of seasons can offer lots of new opportunities to spend time with your favorite senior citizen. If your senior has health problems you may need to look for specific activities to involve them in a more active lifestyle. Here are some great ideas for spending time with your senior friends this fall.

Fall outdoor activities

Pick the last of the tomatoes from the garden and have them wrap them in newspaper to ripen. Store in a cool dark place.

Go for a walk in the woods and gather nuts, depending on where you live and what nut trees are available.

Make a walking stick from a large branch and let your senior use it when they go for their walk.

Go for a nature walk at the local park, sit and watch children playing on the playground.

Take your senior citizen to visit an apple orchard and pick apples.

Hang a flag outside for Veterans Day in November.

Plant some bulbs for next spring.

Help your senior citizen decorate for fall by planting some pretty mums.

Rake fall leaves and have an outdoor bonfire.

Go to a fall bazaar or outdoor fall festival.

Go on a shopping trip to the grocery store and purchase groceries to put in a food basket for needy family.

Take your senior citizen on a fall car ride to look at the beautiful fall foliage.

Indoor Fall Activities

Make hot toddies or mulled cider on a cool afternoon.

Buy stickers and fall cards to send to their friends. Help your senior citizen make them out and mail them.

Build a fire in the fireplace on a chilly day.

Help your senior make homemade chili or a hearty fall soup.

Fall cooking with your senior could include making apple butter, apple pies, and homemade bread.has

Watch the baseball play-offs and World Series with your senior. Make it a fun party with party snacks.

Watch a football game and have a football party with their favorite snacks.

Help them get out their fall and winter clothing and pack away summer clothes.

Bring in lots of fall and winter magazines for your senior to look at.

Make logs out of rolled newspaper that they've saved.

Help them put together a fall checklist of household errands; clean the gutters, wash windows, Install storm windows, etc. Help them but encourage them to assist or lead in the work, you just be their assistant.

Help your senior fill trick or treat bags for Halloween for their grandchildren or neighborhood children.

Help your senior make a fall table decoration with pumpkins, Indian corn, gourds, etc.

Find some children, grandchildren, etc. to make a scarecrow. Perhaps your senior has some cool old clothes to make the scarecrow with.

Help your senior welcome Halloween trick or treaters.

When your senior has memory problems, doing seasonal fall activities will spark their memory of time spent during their life doing that old familiar activities. But most of all, spending time engaged in some fun fall activities with your senior citizen will enrich your life and theirs, and it will be fun for both of you.