- ✔ 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 ∞
 sep 6 2010 +