“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
Albert Camus
1. Find symmetry in nature.
(Buggy and Buddy)
2. Use pinecones to forecast the weather.
(Sorting Sprinkles)
3. Write a poem about about how it's not just a stick.
(Child's Play Music)
4. Collect and sort different parts of trees.
(Inspiration Laboratories)
5. Make a neighborhood tree guide.
(Kid World Citizen)
6. Use trigonometry to find out the height of your favorite trees.
(Science Sparks)
7. Create mini-nature weaving looms to preserve your treasures.
(Housing A Forest)
8. Observe and journal about a stump ecoystem.
9. Find a large log and make painted coasters.
(bread and buttons)
10. Observe a day in the life of a backyard birdbath.
(The Locust-Fork News Journal)
11. Make a A-frame winter shelter in your backyard.
(Mother Earth News)
12. Go shrooming.
13. Whittle together.
(Acorn Pies)
14. Sing the autumn fairy song.
(Let's Play Kids Music)
15. Try some leaf sewing on your nature walk.
(How We Learn)
16. Celebrate your local "Fall Ball".
17. Paint on seed pods.
(Danya Banya)
18. Make colorful homemade stick wind chimes.
(Happy Hooligans)
19. Find a sacred stump and tell its story.
20. Play and craft with helicopter seeds.
(Lalymom)
21. Make a twig bow and arrow.
(Acorn Pies)
22. Make rock dominoes.
(Childcareland Blog)
23. Rake some pinestraw and donate it to your school garden.
24. Build an insect hotel.
(Babble Dabble Do)
25. Blaze your own woodland trail.
(My Nearest and Dearest)
26. Whip up some fancy dinner place cards from fall leaves.
(Cool Progeny)
27. Craft a thankful mobile- try using found natural objects.
(Made By Joel)
28. Find triangles and circles in nature on a nature walk.
29. Make fern prints.
(My Nearest and Dearest)
30. Fall madly in love with a longleaf pine tree.
31. Try leaf sorting- all you need is chalk and the great outdoors.
(How Wee Learn)
32. Create a stick family- and a story to boot.
(Craftulate)
34. Get acquainted with all the action around another tree stump.
35. Now consider building a little loom on it.
(Babble Dabble Do)
36. Join the Knowing Nature Challenge.
37. Play with sticks.
(Picklebums)
38. Delve into some acorn math.
(Living Montessori Now)
39. Go on a sound walk.
(Mother Goose Programs)
40. Plan an extended soundwalk through a local park.
(Hildergard Westerkemp)
41. Make a home for hedgehogs.
(Breathing Places)
42. Play with leaves and markers.
(House Wren Studios)
43. Hone the fine art of fox walking.
(Hedgehog Leatherworks)
44. Make the easiest leaf wreath ever.
(willowday)
45. Pen an Ode to Autumn.
46. Practice your Tree Poses together in the grass.
47. Make a mobile of acorn people.
(Shared Threads)
48. Use the season as a reason for extra hugs and softened voices.
49. Create autumn nature prints in sculpey or clay.
(The Artful Parent)
50. Concoct delightful, open-ended autumn trees.
(Full Circle)
51. Fashion simple autumn leaf crowns from your special tree.
(Twig and Toadstool)
52. Start an Apple Day tradition.
(Storybook Woods)
53. Play the 5 trees outdoor game.
(5 Orange Potatoes)
54. Just sit in a sunny spot and sketch what you see- the world that surrounds you.
And if the weather is too wet for outdoor explorations, consider making a cardboard tree play house with instructions and templates from Spoonful. Because we can't control the weather outside- we can only vow to honor the weather within.
