Adventuring through childhood... with love and dysfunction in tow
The natural resources that Mother Nature has to offer are ideal for any budding artist wanting to create an organic masterpiece. Best of all the materials are free! Whether you are in your own backyard, collecting leaves and blossoms blowing in the street or beachcombing the seashore, you are never short things to find.
Autumn is the most wonderful time for children to embrace imagination and head outdoors to play! And with so many leaves on the ground at the moment we decided to collect some leaves and have some fun with them.
What is there not to love about Autumn! With all the beautiful colours it’s the perfect time to head out to find natural resources to have fun with. Here are some of our favourite ideas…
Who doesn’t love the autumn! Wonderful colours, crisp blue skies and LEAVES! Leaves are a fabulous natural source for creative fun. The array of colours is so beautiful that we wanted to bring that inside so we decided to make an awesome autumn ‘stained glass’ window.
Today we went out to collect autumn leaves so we could fill the trampoline up and jump. bounce, kick and throw leaves to our hearts were content…
We spent some time really appreciating the colours of the trees in the garden as next year we won’t be here to see them. We planted this tree when we moved into the house 20 years ago and it was only around 6 inches tall. We used a torch and magnifying glass to look at the leaves.
Who doesn’t love the Autumn!! Wonderful colours, crisp blue skies and LEAVES!! Leaves are a fabulous natural source for creative fun… here are some of the things you can do with leaves…