- ✔ collect colourful leaves
- Identify the leaves and glue them into a notebook. Name them and research about the trees they come from.
- ✔ Collect chestnuts and make animals from them.
- Have a conkerfight.
- Find a huge pile of (clean!) leaves and jump right into it. Make sure to tidy up the mess afterwards too.
- ✔ Make a mug of hot tea, light a lantern and watch the flame flicker.
- Make a paper lantern and take it out for a walk.
- Carve a pumpkin and make (Carribbean) pumpkin soup.
- When the storm is howling outside, build a ship from your bed, lots of cushions and blankets and pretend to be a pirate in the middle of a thunderstorm.
- Turn off the lights, lie in the dark and listen to Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.
- On a windy day stand in an open space and resist the force of the wind.
- Get a few friends together and tell each other ghost stories.
- Make a shadow theatre.
- Decorate the flat/house in red and yellow.
- ✔ Cook an autumn soup.
- Send everyone you like a Halloween postcard.
- Copy Dreadful Shadows on your MP3 player and take it out for a midnight walk (I highly recommend the Funeral Procession). Get lost in the beautiful dark voice and try not to think about anything at all.
- go to your local library and find childrens books about autumn.
nov 7 2009 ∞
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