There is something about autumn that makes you want to slow down and pay attention. The light changes. The air smells different. The hedgerows fill up with things worth noticing – berries, seed heads, spider webs strung between branches, the first properly crunchy leaves underfoot.
Most of us mean to do more with it. To get outside, to notice things, to make something with what we find. Autumn is generous that way. It practically invites you to collect it.
Autumn Days is a ten-page printable pack designed to help your family do exactly that – get outside, notice what’s there, make something with it, and remember it when the season has passed.
What’s inside:
Autumn Days Bucket List – 32 ideas for the season, from apple picking and bat spotting at dusk to visiting a maize maze and making fairy lanterns from leaves. Not a to-do list. Just a generous collection of things worth trying while autumn lasts.
Autumn Nature Hunt – 22 things to look for on your walk. A crunchy leaf, a spider web, fog or mist, a beech tree. Simple enough for small children, satisfying enough for everyone.
Autumn Leaf Guide – nine common UK trees illustrated in watercolour, with their names. Oak, Beech, Silver Birch, Rowan, Ash, Holly, Field Maple, Horse Chestnut, Hazel. Take it with you. See how many you can find.
My Leaf Collection – two versions, one for smaller leaves and one for larger ones. Press a leaf, write its name, note where you found it. A keepsake that costs nothing but a walk.
Signs of Autumn – an observation journal page for recording the weather, colours, plants, textures, and wildlife spotted on a walk. Print as many as you need.
What I Collected – a page for everything worth bringing home. Draw it, describe it, stick it down.
My Autumn Senses – what did you see, hear, smell, feel, notice? A quiet page for after the walk.
Autumn Makes — twenty things to make with everything autumn brings, from leaf rubbings and conker threading to pinecone bird feeders and leaf mandalas.
Our Autumn — a memory page with two photo spaces. Print as many as the season deserves.
Full colour and printer-friendly versions included. A4, instant download.
by Sarah
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