Your guide to activities and fun things to do with your preschoolers, toddlers and kids in Kansas City, KS

Fall and apple orchards go together.  Even though I'd usually choose just about any other fruit over a raw apple (I know, I'm weird), apple orchards suddenly turn me into an apple snob.  And the smell of baked apples ... oh, dear, I'm getting distracted.

Now that Stephenson's has closed, you have to make this a day trip.  You can either try the Weston Red Barn Farm or head up to Platte City for Alldredge Orchards.  Pick a bunch and then head home to make a real homemade apple pie or caramel apples on a stick. Now we're talking autumn.