13 Things We Forgot We Did During The Fall As Kids
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13 Things We Forgot We Did During The Fall As Kids

Let's bring back the fun fall activities we did when we were kids.

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13 Things We Forgot We Did During The Fall As Kids
Hugh Morton

Being in college, I never take the time to remember things that I used to do during the Fall. When I was younger, there were so many different activities that I would get so excited for when the leaves started changing and the weather got cooler. Being from up North, we take Fall pretty seriously and I mean how can you not when it's such a beautiful time there. Now that I'm down South, I tend to forget that it's even fall at all. The temperatures are in the 80s and 90s in mid October, the leaves barely change from their green tints, and I have all the studying in the world to keep me from remembering the activities that I used to love taking part in with my family and friends.

1. Apple picking

The task of finding the best apples on the trees and taste testing even more than you take home.

2. Baking with the apples you picked

What's better than an apple cobbler or apple pie on a cool Fall night with some apple cider? Literally nothing.

3. Decorating your house

When your mom brings down all of the Fall and Halloween decorations from the attic and the inside of your house looks like you just walked into an actual haunted house.

4. Raking leaves and jumping in them

This memory might be a real far back, but raking leaves in the backyard into big piles and then jumping in them with your siblings will always be something I associate with Fall.

5. Bobbing for apples

You can't tell me your neighbors never hosted that annual Halloween party where everyone bobbed for apples while decked out in their costumes.

6. Pumpkin picking

When the whole family used to go out to the pumpkin patch to pick out the perfect one to carve.

7. Carving pumpkins

Scooping out the nasty insides of the pumpkin and saving the seeds to have your mom bake before carving the perfect face for your pumpkin.

8. Booing

Ding-dong ditching your neighbors and leaving them bags of candy.

9. Haunted hay rides

Going to the corn field and getting on the wagon attached to the tractor, just to be taken through the farm and scared half to death by monsters and other people dressed up to pop out at you.

10. Watching Disney Channel Halloween movies

Snuggling up by the fireplace and watching all of the Hocus Pocus and Halloweentown movies with friends and siblings.

11. Dressing up for Halloween

Going to pick out the best costume, that was either hilarious or so scary you just couldn't pass up scaring your siblings at every chance you got.

12. Trick or Treating

Getting all of the candy you can the first time around, then switching costumes with friends and going around to the houses again to get even more.

13. Trading candy with siblings

The morning after Halloween, sitting on the floor with all of our candy sprawled out and choosing which kinds we're willing to trade with each other.

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