Autumn English for kids: leaves, pumpkins and -at words
Aylara A.
Kids' teacher · founder of AylaraTalks
Autumn is the most teachable season there is: children can SEE it happening outside the window, week by week, which means every word you teach gets rehearsed by the walk home. Here is a month of English built on that — one word pack, five ways to play it, the printables, and what to do when it rains.
The eighteen words
The autumn pack holds the season a child actually meets: leaf, acorn, mushroom, squirrel, hedgehog, puddle, umbrella, boots, scarf. Eighteen concrete, drawable words with pictures and audio — enough for four weeks at ages 3–6, or one rich week at 7–9.
Five games, already loaded
- Memory Match with autumn words — the classic, and the fastest way to meet the pack.
- Balloon Words for a loud five minutes when energy drops.
- Bingo on the projector while the printable bingo sheets are on the desks.
- Draw It — squirrels and umbrellas are the most drawable vocabulary of the year.
- Word Scramble for the 7–9s once the words are known by ear.
The printable corner
Flashcards for the wall, a poster for the door, bingo for Friday, tracing for early finishers — the whole autumn set prints from one page, and the word-search now ships with a teacher's answer key as page two.
The rainy-day plan: -at and -og
When the puddles win, stay in and read. Autumn is the natural season to open the word families: the cat sat on the mat while the dog jogged in the fog. Two family pages, ten minutes each, and the class leaves having READ two silly sentences alone — a bigger trophy than any leaf.
⭐ Take this with you
One pack, five games, four printables and a phonics rainy-day plan — a whole autumn unit with nothing to prepare tonight.
🎈 Put it into play
Everything here pairs with our free classroom games — no prep, no accounts.
About the author
Aylara A.
Kids' teacher · founder of AylaraTalks
Aylara is a kids' teacher who spent years hand-making every classroom game — cutting cards and drawing boards on paper sheets. She created AylaraTalks so no teacher has to start from a blank page again.