24 fall riddles with answers

All summer I wear green. In October I show off red and gold, and by December I stand bare. What am I?

Hint: Look out of the window at the park in October.

The bigger you make me, the better the jump, but one gust of wind and you have to start again. What am I?

Hint: You need a rake to make it.

I'm small enough to hold in your fist, yet a tree as tall as a house is waiting inside me. A squirrel may bury me and forget where. What am I?

Hint: It falls from an oak tree.

I have long teeth and I comb the yard, but I never touch anyone's hair. What am I?

Hint: You use it to make a big pile of leaves.

My walls are taller than you and you can get lost inside me, but in a few weeks a farmer will harvest my walls. What am I?

Hint: It is a puzzle you walk through on a farm.

I'm a ride with no seats and no seat belts. You sit on bales while a tractor pulls you around the farm. What am I?

Hint: It happens at fall farms, along with pumpkin picking.

Put me under a sheet of paper, rub over me with the side of a crayon, and my veins appear like magic. What am I?

Hint: Pick one up from the ground in the park first.

I'm not a plant and I'm not an animal, and after a rainy fall night a whole ring of us can pop up on the lawn. What are we?

Hint: They have caps and stems, and they come up after rain.

I'm hard and brown. I open up when the air is dry and close up tight when it's damp, and I fall from a pine tree. What am I?

Hint: Look under a pine tree.

We take turns flying at the front of our V, so nobody gets too tired on the long trip south. What are we?

Hint: They are big birds that honk as they fly.

On my day in September, daytime and nighttime are almost exactly the same length. What am I?

Hint: It marks the first day of fall on the calendar.

In the fall, people turn me back one hour, and they get an extra hour of sleep. What am I?

Hint: "Spring forward, fall back."

I'm a small red berry that grows in a bog, and at harvest time farmers flood my field so I float. What am I?

Hint: It is made into a sauce for Thanksgiving dinner.

I hang from a branch all fall and winter, and in spring something with wings crawls out of me. What am I?

Hint: A caterpillar wraps itself up inside it.

Rearrange the letters of what falls from a tree in autumn, and you get a tiny insect that jumps. What are the two words?

Hint: The insect lives in a dog's fur.

A farmer has 30 pumpkins. She sells half of them at the market, then carves a third of the ones left. How many uncarved pumpkins does she still have?

Hint: Work it out in two steps: first the half, then the third.

I was in the leaf all summer, hiding under the green. When the green fades in fall, I finally show. What color am I?

Hint: Think of the color of a banana, or of many birch leaves in October.

Trees do it in the fall, and guests do it at the end of a party. What is the word?

Hint: One word, two meanings: a noun and a verb.

Rearrange the letters of a fall fruit, and you get what farmers do at harvest. What are the two words?

Hint: The fruit is shaped like a light bulb.

Rearrange the letters of the tree famous for its red fall leaves, and you get a word meaning more than enough. What are the two words?

Hint: Its leaf is on the flag of Canada.

Rearrange the letters of a fall drink pressed from apples, and you get what a hungry baby did. What are the two words?

Hint: The drink is often served hot with a cinnamon stick.

Rearrange the letters of the block of hay you sit on at a hayride, and you get a word meaning you can do it. What are the two words?

Hint: Hay is pressed into one of these and tied with string.

My name comes from the Latin word for eight, yet I'm the tenth month. Which month am I, and why the mismatch?

Hint: Octopus and octagon come from the same word.

I'm the full moon nearest the fall equinox, named for the farmers who once worked late in my light. What am I?

Hint: Its name is the farm word for gathering the crops.