If you’re looking for a unique way to enjoy some fall educational activities, then you’ll love these virtual Fall field trips for homeschoolers. Virtual field trips grew in popularity a couple of years ago when the world shut down. However, if you’re a homeschooling veteran like me, then you’ve been using this homeschool hack long before! Grab your calendar and schedule these fun fall-themed field trips in your lesson plans and grab the resources to do with them!
5 Virtual Fall Field Trips for Homeschoolers
1. Virtual Farm Tour | The Rosin’s
Take this virtual field trip to a farm where the Rosin Family shows their animals, how they’re fed, and what goes on in a typical day. Your children will love looking at their fan-tail pigeons, pigs, horses, cows, and more! Pair this video with the free resource below.
Farm-Themed Interactive Lapbook Activity Pack
Perfect touch to a Farm theme unit study or great as a stand-alone lesson. This interactive lapbook activity pack comes with enough activities to fill a manilla folder or 2-3 pages of a notebook.
Activities include: Build-a-Farm scene, From Farm to Table sequence cards, Chicken to Market sequence cards (chicken, eggs, sold in market), Farm animal cards, and Coloring pages.
Simply print, cut, and decorate! Geared toward Little Learners ages 2 (with help) to mid elementary. Add a write-in story section for older kiddos (8+).
2. Field Trip to the Pumpkin Patch | Burt’s Farm
Join Miss Tracey as she takes your kids for a visit to Burt’s Pumpkin Patch. They’ll get to see foods that are made on the farm and offered for purchase. There are lots of different pumpkins to see as well as other activities this patch has to offer. The free printable pumpkin pack below pairs great with this video!
Free Pumpkin Coloring Pages
This FREE pumpkin coloring pages pack features 7 different types of pumpkins for your kids to color and decorate. They can use crayons, markers, coloring pencils, glitter, dried leaves from outside, and more!
3. Apple Orchard Field Trip | Honey Hill Orchard
Join DuPage County Farm Bureau’s Ag in the Classroom program as they take you to Honey Hill Orchard in Waterman, IL! Learn all about apple tree care, and how apples are harvested, sorted, and stored. They’ll even show you a behind-the-scenes look at how apple cider is made! Continue the lesson on apples with the resource below.
Apple Life Cycle Drawing & Writing Prompts
Easily walk your little learners through the apple life cycle with this activity pack. Each page features a stage picture that can be colored, a box for drawing it, vocabulary word trace practice, and space for answering a question.
4. Farmers Market Virtual Field Trip | Marando Farms
Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Here! Come with Miss Penny and the KidVision Pre-K Kids to a Farmers Market for a Farm to Table experience! Find out the difference between a fruit and a vegetable, how to plant a garden, and how to make compost to fertilize it. Want to grow a green thumb? Come along with us!
Extend your child’s learning with the fall foods and harvest lapbook resource below.
Fall Foods & Harvest Lapbook Pack
This 2-n-1 Fall Foods & Harvest Lapbook Pack is a combination of two resources to help your child create a fall foods lapbook and a harvest lapbook. There are pictures, writing prompts, and flaps that can be cut and assembled according to your child’s own creativity.
5. Scenic Drive to See Autumn Foliage | LvFree Adventures
Scenic Autumn Foliage Driving through Vermont US Smugglers Notch with relaxing and calming piano music. One of the best places to see autumn foliage in Vermont is Smugglers Notch. It is located on Vermont Route 108 Mountain road. Peak fall foliage along Smugglers’ Notch typically lands from the last week of September to early October. However, it can vary depending on the year.
Use the notebooking pages below to have your kids write and draw what they see along their fall scenic drive.
Free Notebooking Templates Pack
This FREE Notebooking Templates Pack features 8 different templates to help note taking be more fun and creative. This is a digital resource that can be duplicated as many times necessary for personal use only.
Final Thoughts About Virtual fall Field Trips for Homeschoolers
Sometimes the weather doesn’t always warrant getting out of the house. Other times, it may just be a stay-in-the-house kind of day. Use these virtual fall field trips for homeschoolers as a way to bring field trip adventures directly to your living room. Use the resources paired – or add your own – to make complete lessons that can last for days or even weeks! Have you ever taken a virtual field trip with your homeschoolers? If so, where? Let me know in the comments below.
Add Even More Fall-Themed Resources to Your Homeschool!
I’m super excited to link arms with a few other bloggers to provide you with more fall-themed resources for your homeschool! Now that you’ve read all about fun fall-themed virtual field trips you can incorporate in your lesson plans, hop over to How to Homeschool My Child and check out her fall-themed book list and grab the free resource!