Autumn is my favorite time of the year and it’s one of the reasons I can handle the Wisconsin winters.
There really is nothing quite like the changing of the leaves and the activities that fill our Fall schedule. The bonfires, apples, pumpkin flavored everything – I can’t wait! It’s also a big time for date days or nights for us as our Summer is so jam-packed that we usually forget to take time for just the two of us. So today, I have 43 free or cheap fall date ideas that you can easily do!
Get Outside
- Go apple picking
- Go for a hay ride
- Visit the pumpkin patch
- Have a Fall photoshoot
- Go to a corn maze
- Rake + play in the leaves
- Go for a nature hike and forage
- Go leaf peeping
- Go on a ghost hunt
- Visit a Fall festival
- Go to Oktoberfest
- Go to a haunted house
- Enjoy a bonfire
- Go to a football game
- Go to a Farmer’s Market
- Go to a zombie run
- Have a picnic
- Attend a local class
- Go camping
- Visit a winery for their Fall wine selection
- Go kayaking when the leaves are changing
- Go on a historical home tour
- Visit a Halloween themed night at a theme park
- Go for a scenic drive
- Volunteer together
- Go to a flea market
- Have a coffee date with Fall flavored coffee
Enjoy Indoors
- Watch a scary movie
- Watch Hocus Pocus and Nightmare Before Christmas
- Read ghost stories
- Decorate pumpkins (even before Halloween!)
- Make caramel apples
- Decorate your house with foraged items
- Make your own Halloween costumes
- Make pumpkin pie
- Make your own bird suet
- Preserve leaves together
- Can and preserve your produce from the Farmer’s Market
- Make a warm meal (like this chunky tomato soup!)
- Make apple cider
- Decorate for Halloween
- Make apple butter
- Make popcorn balls