Put down the remote control and get ready for some
serious fall fun with your family:
Go for a nature walk! Collect leaves, small twigs, nuts,
colorful rocks and other items to decorate for fall.
Decorate a wooden or papier-mâché picture frame with
found treasures from your nature walk.
Practice letter and number recognition with a leaf hunt.
Trace and cut leaf or pumpkin shapes from orange
construction paper. Make 26 shapes, one for each letter of
the alphabet. Write a letter in uppercase on one side, and
its lowercase match on the opposite side. Place the leaves
in various places around a room: propped against pictures,
on bookshelves, windows, etc. Make different games: Call
out random letters and ask your child to find them; cut out
pictures from magazines and ask the children to find the
letters that spell that word. This game can be adapted for
any season or holiday. For instance, use hearts for
Valentine's Day, clovers for St. Patrick's Day, and so on.
Collect coats, warm clothing, blankets, and food items to
donate to homeless shelters and emergency relief shelters.
Winter is right around the corner, making this a much-
welcomed and appreciated gesture.
Make leaf pictures. Draw an autumn scene on a piece of
construction paper. Outline your picture with glue and
sprinkle crushed leaves on top to decorate.
Load the family into the car and visit a pumpkin patch!
Spend time choosing just the right pumpkins: different
shapes and sizes, some for carving, and some for painting.
Fill the house with pumpkin heads! Decorate miniature
pumpkins with paint, markers, glue, googly eyes, and yarn
for hair. Anything goes!
Make feeders for squirrels and birds. Make simple pine
cone feeders by spreading a mixture of suet and birdseed
onto a pine cone. Tie a piece of string to the cone and
suspend it from a low tree branch. For a different type of
feeder, fill a small wicker basket with nuts, seeds and
corn feed, and attach it to a tree in your yard.
About The Author: Deborah Shelton is the author of The Five Minute Parent: Fun & Fast Activities for You and Your Little Ones.
More Suggestions for Fall fun. Don't forget your own yard 1- your children planting bullbs for next spring. 2- raking and rolling and jumping into a big leaf piles 3- making and sticking in the ground snow measures 4- setting up corn cob feeders. 5- watching the migrating birds feed on the seeds of last summers flowers and planning next summer's garden. 6-Make and decorate driveway marker sticks. 7- making and finding a place for a homemade windsock to tell you about bad weather Here where I live wind from the southeast brings the most snow. 8-decorating your door with a homemade wreath made from grape vines and colorful what you call weeds with dried flowers . you will see the ones you want to use. me I use goldenrod and a white bushy weed with many tiny little flowers and when I can find them a few wild asters and some bittersweet. Hey it isn't store bought but we like it. 9- Also make a centetrpiece using a colorful foil over a cut piece of the styrofom you latest electronics came with, get some nice dried weeds a few colorful leaves add some smelly spice onto the plants maybe a small amount of glitter I like silver and maybe a touch of cut or grown real small styrofom tossed onto a few areas of the plants you can use a sray glue but I just use some water to wet the area I want to decorate. My centerpiece only moves twice. When I center it and when I get rid of it which is usually after Thanksgiving. Yes some of that styrofom flakes will fall off ,but surprisingly not that much. 10- Oh on those nature walks,Collecting small stones which the children can decorate or put in a terrarium, Christmas train platform or other displays or just start a rock collection. Not by kinds of rocks but by the way the rock is shaped and looks like something. The children can bring out their collection on one of those snow days. When autumn starts to call as the leaves fall you and your family can have mucho fun at very little expense. Hey I believe it is better the FOOTBALL but Mr, Thrifty is in the minority.
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