50 Fall Activities for 9-Year-Old Girls 🍂

Looking for fun fall activities for 9-year-old girls? Whether you’re planning a cozy afternoon at home, a fall babysitting day, a girls’ playdate, homeschool activities, or a weekend full of autumn fun, this list has 50 cute, creative, and unique fall activities for kids.

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At age 9, kids are old enough for activities that feel a little more grown-up but still love crafts, games, baking, adventures, and anything they can personalize. These fall activities for girls are designed to be fun, creative, and easy to do at home or with friends.

From fall crafts and baking to scavenger hunts, cozy activities, outdoor adventures, and DIY projects, there’s something for every kind of fall day!

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🍁 1. Create a Fall Bucket List

Make a big list of everything you want to do this fall. Include things like jumping in leaves, drinking apple cider, baking cookies, visiting a pumpkin patch, having a cozy movie night, and making a fall craft.

Turn it into a checklist and see how many you can complete before winter!

See the free printable Fall Bucket List here!

🎨 2. Make a Fall Vision Board

Grab magazines, old catalogs, stickers, paper, and markers and create a fall vision board.

Add favorite fall colors, outfits, activities, foods, books, movies, and things you want to try this season.

🍎 3. Have an Apple Taste Test

Buy several different types of apples and cut them into small pieces.

Have a blind taste test and rate each apple from 1–10. Try to guess which variety you’re eating!

☕ 4. Create a Cozy Drink Bar

Set up a little fall drink station with hot chocolate, apple cider, or another favorite kid-friendly drink.

Add toppings like whipped cream, cinnamon, sprinkles, caramel drizzle, and mini marshmallows.

🧡 5. Design Your Own Fall Mug

Use a plain mug and decorate it with fall-inspired designs using appropriate ceramic markers or paints. We are planning on going to our local pottery studio and painting our own fall mugs this year!

Try pumpkins, leaves, cats, acorns, hearts, or a cute fall saying.

🍂 6. Make a Fall Leaf Collage

Collect colorful leaves and arrange them into a picture.

Make a butterfly, heart, flower, animal, or your own abstract fall design.

🦊 7. Create a Woodland Animal Mask

Make a cute fox, squirrel, owl, or deer mask using cardstock, construction paper, and craft supplies.

Then have a woodland animal photo shoot!

🔎 8. Go on a Fall Scavenger Hunt

Create a list of things to find outside:

• Red leaf
• Acorn
• Pinecone
• Yellow flower
• Bird
• Squirrel
• Orange leaf
• Smooth rock
• Something shaped like a heart
• Something that smells like fall

See who can find everything first!

🧁 9. Have a Fall Cupcake Decorating Contest

Bake or buy plain cupcakes and set out fall decorations.

Try making pumpkins, leaves, apples, acorns, or cozy sweater designs.

Give awards for most creative, cutest, funniest, and best fall design.

📚 10. Create a Cozy Reading Nook

Build a little reading corner with blankets, pillows, stuffed animals, and fairy lights.

Pick a fall book and spend the afternoon reading in your cozy space.

🎃 11. Decorate Mini Pumpkins

Give each person a small pumpkin and decorate it with paint, markers, stickers, ribbons, or other craft supplies.

You don’t even have to make traditional jack-o’-lanterns!

🧪 12. Make a Pumpkin Volcano

For a fun fall science experiment, use a small hollowed-out pumpkin and create a kid-friendly baking soda and vinegar reaction inside.

It’s a messy but memorable autumn activity!

👗 13. Plan a Fall Fashion Show

Put together fun fall outfits using sweaters, scarves, boots, hats, and other accessories.

Create a runway and let everyone walk while someone acts as the announcer.

📸 14. Have a Fall Photo Challenge

Make a list of fun photos to capture:

• Jumping in leaves
• Holding a pumpkin
• Wearing a cozy sweater
• Drinking cider
• Finding a giant leaf
• Taking a silly picture
• Wearing matching outfits

See how many you can complete.

🥧 15. Bake Mini Apple Pies

Make individual mini apple pies together.

Let each person decorate the top crust with leaves, hearts, stars, or other shapes.

🕵️‍♀️ 16. Create a Fall Mystery Hunt

Hide clues around the house leading to a surprise at the end.

Make the clues fall-themed and turn the whole thing into a mini detective mystery.

🍁 17. Make a Leaf Garland

Collect colorful leaves and string them together to make a fall decoration for a bedroom, playroom, or craft area.

🧸 18. Have a Stuffed Animal Fall Picnic

Set up a picnic blanket and invite all the stuffed animals.

Make pretend food, give everyone a seat, and create a cute little fall picnic scene.

🎨 19. Paint Fall Rocks

Collect smooth rocks and paint them with pumpkins, mushrooms, leaves, flowers, smiley faces, or cute animals.

Leave them around your neighborhood if appropriate or use them as decorations.

🍪 20. Create Your Own Fall Cookie

Start with plain sugar cookies and let kids invent their own fall cookie designs.

Give each creation a name like Pumpkin Patch Cookies or Cozy Sweater Cookies.

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🍂 21. Play Fall Barbies: The Ultimate Autumn Day

Set up your Barbies for a cozy fall adventure! Let the 9-year-old choose outfits, create a storyline, and act out different scenes with her dolls.

Role-play ideas:

• 🍂 Fall Festival Day — The Barbies are getting ready to go to the town fall festival.
• ☕ Cozy Coffee Shop — One Barbie owns a little fall café, and the others come in for pumpkin drinks and treats.
• 🎃 Pumpkin Patch Adventure — The Barbies visit a pumpkin patch and compete to find the biggest pumpkin.
• 🐴 Apple Orchard Trip — They go apple picking, have a picnic, and bake an apple pie afterward.
• 🏡 New Neighbor — A new Barbie moves into the neighborhood, and everyone plans a welcome party for her.
• 👗 Fall Fashion Show — Each Barbie creates a fall outfit and walks the runway.
• 🏕️ Girls’ Weekend — The Barbies have a cozy cabin weekend with games, snacks, crafts, and storytelling.
• 🐶 Pet Adoption Day — The Barbies visit an animal shelter and choose a new pet to bring home.
• 🎬 Movie Night — They decorate the house, make snacks, invite friends, and have a cozy movie night.
• 🧁 Fall Bake-Off — Each Barbie makes a different fall dessert and judges the competition.
• 🎒 Back-to-School Weekend — The Barbies go shopping for school supplies, pick out outfits, and prepare for a new school year.
• 🕵️‍♀️ The Missing Pumpkin Mystery — Someone’s special pumpkin disappears from the fall festival, and the Barbies have to solve the mystery!

Make it extra fun: Have the 9-year-old create Barbie invitations, menus, shopping lists, schedules, signs, and little props for the storyline. That turns playing Barbies into a whole afternoon of creative pretend play.

🧡 22. Make Friendship Bracelets With Fall Colors

Choose fall-inspired colors like orange, brown, yellow, cream, red, and green.

Make bracelets for friends, siblings, parents, or grandparents.

🦉 23. Make a Paper Owl

Use construction paper to create an adorable owl.

Add oversized eyes, feathers, and a tiny fall accessory like a scarf.

🍎 24. Visit an Apple Orchard

Go apple picking and make a day of it.

Bring a camera and challenge kids to find the biggest, smallest, and funniest-looking apple.

🎃 25. Squishy Sacrifice

I don’t know a single 9-year-old girl who doesn’t LOVE squishy toys right now.

What You Need:

• 2 players
• Several squishy toys

How to play:

1. Sit across from each other with your squishies in separate piles.
2. Take turns choosing one of your squishies to sacrifice.
3. Hold the chosen squishy in your hand. Both players count down 3, 2, 1!
4. On “1,” both players say a number at the same time.
5. Quickly add the two numbers together. Whoever says the correct total first wins the other player’s squishy.
6. Put the won squishy into your pile.
7. Keep playing until all the squishies have been won.
8. The player with the most squishies at the end wins! 🏆

🧶 26. Make a Fall Friendship Bracelet Shop

Take your bracelet-making a step further and pretend you’re running a little bracelet shop.

Create prices, make a menu of designs, and let friends “order” custom bracelets.

📝 27. Write a Fall Gratitude List

Grab colorful paper and write down 20 things you’re thankful for.

Cut them into leaves and create a gratitude tree.

🌻 28. Make a Pressed Flower Bookmark

Use flowers and leaves to make a beautiful bookmark.

Add a name, favorite quote, or fall saying at the bottom.

🥤 29. Have a Blindfolded Fall Food Challenge

Have someone prepare small samples of safe foods like apples, cinnamon, popcorn, pumpkin bread, or pretzels.

Blindfold the player and see how many they can identify.

🧺 30. Have a Fall Picnic

Pack a basket with sandwiches, fruit, snacks, and drinks.

Take your picnic outside and enjoy the changing leaves.

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🐿️ 31. Make a Squirrel Snack Station

Make a little observation area where you can watch squirrels and birds from a safe distance.

Keep a notebook nearby and record which animals you see.

🎨 32. Create a Fall Window Decoration

Make paper leaves, pumpkins, acorns, or cute animals and create a fall scene for a window.

💌 33. Make “Just Because” Kindness Notes

Write little encouraging notes for family members or friends.

Try messages like:

“You are awesome!”
“Have a great day!”
“You made me smile!”

Hide them around the house for people to find.

🧁 34. Have a Fall Baking Challenge

Give everyone the same basic ingredients and challenge them to create their own fall dessert.

Let everyone come up with a name for their creation.

🧩 35. Make Your Own Fall Puzzle

Draw a fall picture on cardstock, cut it into puzzle pieces, and mix them up.

Then challenge someone to put it back together.

🧙‍♀️ 36. Create a Magical Fall Story

Pick three random objects—like a pumpkin, owl, and golden leaf—and write a short story that includes all three.

Make it funny, mysterious, or magical.

🖍️ 37. Design a Fall Coloring Page

Have kids create their own printable coloring page.

Draw a big fall scene with pumpkins, animals, leaves, and a fun saying.

🍂 38. Go on a Leaf Color Hunt

Pick a color for each person and see who can find the most leaves in their assigned color.

Try:

• Red
• Orange
• Yellow
• Brown
• Green

🎵 39. Make a Fall Playlist

Create a playlist of favorite family-friendly songs that make you think of fall.

Give the playlist a cute name like “Cozy Autumn Days.”

🧸 40. Give Your Stuffed Animal a Fall Makeover

Make tiny scarves, hats, bows, or blankets for stuffed animals.

Then have a fall fashion show for them.

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🥧 41. Have an Apple Pie Decorating Contest

Make mini pies or use paper plates to create pretend pies.

Let kids decorate their own with different toppings and designs.

🌙 42. Have a Sunset Walk

Take a walk around the neighborhood before sunset and look for changing leaves, birds, clouds, and other signs of autumn.

📖 43. Make a Fall Mini Book

Fold paper together to create a tiny book called “My Perfect Fall.”

Fill each page with drawings, favorite foods, activities, memories, and things you want to do.

🎯 44. Create a Fall Bingo Game

Make your own fall bingo cards using things like:

• Pumpkin
• Red leaf
• Squirrel
• Apple
• Acorn
• Sweater
• Scarecrow
• Corn
• Hay bale
• Boots

Or, use the Cozy Fall Bingo game we made!

🧺 45. Have a Cozy Craft Basket Day

Fill a basket with fall craft supplies and let kids choose what they want to make.

Include paper, stickers, markers, yarn, leaves, ribbons, popsicle sticks, and more.

🍁 46. Make a Fall Time Capsule

Write down your favorite things about this fall.

Add drawings, small notes, photos, and memories. Put everything in a box and save it until next fall.

🍿 47. Make a DIY Snack Mix

Set out different ingredients like popcorn, pretzels, cereal, dried fruit, chocolate chips, and other favorite snacks.

Everyone creates their own custom fall snack mix.

🧡 48. Have a “Would You Rather?” Fall Game

Ask questions like:

Would you rather jump in a giant pile of leaves or visit a pumpkin patch?

Would you rather drink apple cider or hot chocolate?

Would you rather bake cookies or decorate cupcakes?

Click here for 100 Fall Would You Rather Questions.

🌟 49. Make a Fall Dream Bedroom

Using paper, kids can design their ultimate cozy fall bedroom.

Draw the bed, blankets, decorations, books, stuffed animals, lights, and everything else they’d want.

Or, the 9-year-old girl I babysit loves to have ChatGPT create the bedroom of her dreams.

🍂 50. Create a “Best Fall Day Ever”

Let the 9-year-old plan an entire imaginary perfect fall day.

They can decide:

• What time they wake up
• What they eat for breakfast
• Where they go
• What activities they do
• What they wear
• What they have for dinner
• What movie they watch
• Who they spend the day with

Turn it into a schedule, drawing, or mini scrapbook.

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🍁 More Fall Fun for 9-Year-Old Girls

Fall is the perfect season for creative activities for kids because there are so many ways to combine the outdoors, crafts, food, games, and cozy time.

Whether you’re looking for fall activities for a 9-year-old girl, babysitting ideas, fall break activities, homeschool activities, classroom activities, or things to do with friends, these ideas are easy to customize.

You don’t need expensive supplies or elaborate plans. Sometimes the best fall memories come from something as simple as a pile of leaves, a cozy blanket, a warm drink, and a creative idea. 🍂🧡

Save this list for your next fall day and see how many of these 50 activities you can check off!

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