This day I love.......: leaf

Last week there was a rare Autumn afternoon and my youngest and I decided to make the most of it before picking up her sister from school. We decided to go for a walk through the local woods. As we walked the leaves began falling all around us and with the low Autumn sun it was really magical. My youngest was captivated

My youngest began exploring more, taking in the most of her freedom and running round through the leaves. Trying to catch the ones as they fell and chasing the shadows cast by the sun. It was wonderful watching her.

We had just enough time to play hide and seek before picking up her sister from school, can you spot her?

This day I love Autumn hide and seek

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I love Autumn. The colours are truly fantastic and Autumn sun, yes its a rarity, is so lovely. I love to be outdoors in the Autumn sun and love to play outside with the girls. We ventured outside to have some fun with the leaves. Living with woods in the back garden means we have a lot of leaves.

We first decided to make leaf pies. Think Mud pies but with leaves.

It was not too long before the girls decided they wanted to make Mud pies so this then followed

After exploring the different textures of the leaves to the mud and seeing how they formed different 'pies' we decided to explore the Autumn garden. We saw how the berries have changed colour

We talked about the different colours and looked to see what else we could find. I had not seen any ladybirds this year, so imagine my surprise when we saw this

There were loads of ladybirds and several baby ladybirds too. I was so surprised and incredibly happy. I had to get the girls not to touch them, but we sat and watched them for a while. It was a really lovely day exploring our garden and having fun in the Autumn sun

This day I love Autumn fun.

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This weekend has probably been the first weekend this year that we have been able to get into the garden to start tidying up. Tidying up is what we did, well we made a start. We went around picking up the twigs

and then the leaves

We made some 'leaf' castles which my eldest thought was loads of fun. We explored the leaves for the many creatures that maybe inside and we found this