What Autumn means to me: stories, change, leaves, colour, orange, red, dry, bonfires, gathering, rustling, woodlands, outside, misty mornings, cosy evenings, walks, embrace, fresh, togetherness. Autumn is such a beautiful season and one I find truly inspiring…collecting leaves that have their own stories to tell of the year gone by and the change within that. When walking with my children I find myself gathering leaves, searching for acorns, looking for conquers and their prickly shells, watching the squirrels hunting for nuts and burrowing them in their secret store!!! Loving the nature around us…
Below I have collaborated a variety of simple creative activities you can do with your children after gathering leaves on an Autumnal walk.
what you need…
- leaves
- glue
- card
- paint
- paintbrush
- crayon
- paper
- polystyrene/willow wreath
- florists wire
- garden twine
- willow
what to do…
- you can simply create a beautiful leaf collage, gluing leaves found onto card and exploring the different sizes and shapes and colours of the autumnal leaves
- create a leaf rainbow, displaying the shades of the leaves from green through to yellow through to orange through to red and then brown
- take some paper and lay it on top of the leaf and rub your crayon over the top, creating a leaf rubbing, which highlights the skeleton of the leaf beautifully
- paint over the under side of a leaf and print it onto a piece of paper, maybe using paint of reds, oranges, browns, yellows and greens
- gather leaves of all shapes and sizes and push them through polystyrene wreath or weave into a pre made willow wreath, you can wrap florists wire around the stalk of the leaf for a more secure fit and add feathers or dried hydrangea if wanted…
- find some soft willow branches or even some eucalyptus and bend round to create a crown, again you could weave feathers into this also or dried hydrangea…
