ColorCollectFall scavenger hunt: a free printable color walk
Two printable autumn color sheets and 20 things to find for a fall nature walk — in the park, the woods, or just around the block. No email, no signup.
Fall is the one season that hands you the whole color list for free. In a single block you can find five shades of the same leaf — green going yellow, yellow going orange, orange going rust — and a scavenger hunt is the best excuse to actually look at them.
This hunt is built for being outside: a park, a woodland trail, a street lined with trees. Instead of a list of objects, everyone hunts colors, so it works whether your trees are maples or oaks and whether the leaves are still up or already on the ground.
How to run it
- Print a sheet per player. The kids sheet has eight bold colors; the shades sheet is for older kids and adults who want a real argument. One per player or one per team.
- Pick a route, not just a place. A loop through a park or along a tree-lined street works best — fall color changes from tree to tree, so moving matters more than searching one spot hard.
- Tick it, then write what it was. "Red: the maple by the bus stop." Writing the find down is what turns it from a checklist into something to talk about afterwards.
- Lay the finds out in color order. If you collected leaves, line them up green to yellow to orange to red to brown on the kitchen table at home. It is the whole season in one row.
The printable sheets
Each sheet prints on its own page. Tick the box when you spot the color, and write down what you found.
Fall color walk for kids
Big, bold autumn colors — every one of them can be found on a single walk through a park in October.
- Reda red leaf
- Orangea pumpkin or an orange leaf
- Yellowa yellow leaf or a flower
- Greena leaf that has not turned yet
- Brownan acorn, a conker, or a pinecone
- Purplea berry, a cabbage, or an aster
- Graya stone or a squirrel
- Bluethe sky on a clear fall day
Free printable from colorcollectapp.com — a color scavenger hunt game for phones, too.
Autumn shades hunt for older kids & adults
The in-between colors of a turning tree. Nobody agrees where rust ends and burgundy begins — that is the game.
- Rustan oak or beech leaf
- Burgundya Japanese maple or a dogwood
- Golda ginkgo or a birch leaf
- Mustarda half-turned leaf or a scarf
- Olivea fading fern or moss
- Creama mushroom or dried grass
- Coppera beech hedge or a fallen needle
- Pluma sloe, an elderberry, or a vine
Free printable from colorcollectapp.com — a color scavenger hunt game for phones, too.
20 fall things to find, by color
Want more than eight rows? Every one of these counts for the color in front of it — use them to make the sheets harder, or as a list to read out on the go.
- Red: a maple leaf that has turned all the way
- Red: rose hips or holly berries in a hedge
- Red: an apple, on the tree or in a basket
- Orange: a pumpkin on a doorstep
- Orange: a squash or gourd at a farm stand
- Orange: a pile of orange leaves by the curb
- Yellow: a birch or ginkgo leaf
- Yellow: a late sunflower or goldenrod
- Yellow: a hay bale
- Brown: an acorn with its cap still on
- Brown: a pinecone
- Brown: a conker or a chestnut shell
- Brown: a walking stick you could actually use
- Green: a leaf that has not started turning
- Green: moss on a tree trunk or a wall
- Purple: blackberries or elderberries
- Purple: an ornamental kale or aster in a flower bed
- Gray: a squirrel mid-dash
- Gray: a smooth river stone
- White: a mushroom at the base of a tree
Four ways to play it
One tree, every color
Pick a single tree and find as many colors as you can on it alone — great for toddlers who would rather stay put.
Leaf rainbow
Collect one leaf per color and arrange them into a rainbow. Press them in a heavy book and you have a fall keepsake.
Same color, five shades
Everyone hunts orange only, but each find must be a different shade from the last. Harder than it sounds.
Week-by-week walk
Do the same route every weekend in October and November and watch the sheet change as the trees do.
Keep the photos, not just the ticks
ColorCollect is the same color hunt on a phone, with the finds kept: pick a color, everyone photographs their matches, and the shots snap into one shared photo montage the whole family keeps. Friends and relatives in other towns can join the same hunt with a 6-letter room code — no accounts.
Free to play, no ads, optional in-app purchases. Prefer paper? The sheets work perfectly well on their own.
More seasonal hunts
For any time of year, there are four more free printable color scavenger hunt sheets, and the color scavenger hunt guide has the rules and ideas for every age.
Frequently asked questions
What do you look for on a fall scavenger hunt?
Autumn colors rather than set objects: red and orange leaves, yellow birch and ginkgo, brown acorns and pinecones, purple berries, and the last green leaves that have not turned. Hunting by color means the hunt works in any park, whatever trees grow there.
Is this fall scavenger hunt printable free?
Yes. Both sheets print straight from this page with no email signup and no watermark. Print as many copies as your class or family needs.
What age is a fall color hunt for?
Toddlers can do the kids sheet with help, since every color on it is bold and easy to spot. The autumn shades sheet suits roughly age eight and up, including adults.
What if the leaves have already fallen?
Even better for younger kids — the colors are on the ground at eye level. Fallen leaves, acorns, pinecones and berries carry the kids sheet well into November.