Fall Fun

FUN WITH FALL LEAVES

One of the great things about living in an older home is that we have a lot of mature trees in our yard. This has provided endless hours of playing in the leaves for our kids and their friends.

Last month our kids had off a couple of days from school. It was beautiful and warm outside. I told them to go play outside and enjoy the beautiful day. I was so impressed with the creative things they came up with to play in the yard to keep themselves occupied.

One of the games they played was to create a maze throughout the yard. They would rake all the leaves so that it made a little trail around the yard that they would have to find their way out of. This took them a long time to work on. I was so impressed with their determination and creativity.

Another thing that they played for a long time was to get a toy spider (about the size of the palm of my hand). They would gather almost all the leaves from the yard and pile it in a big, enormous pile. One of the kids would hide the spider in the huge pile while the other kids closed their eyes. Then the kids would have to dig and jump in the pile of leaves till they found the spider. Such simple fun!

The only problem with fall for the mommy is that when they'd come in from playing outside to get a drink or go to the bathroom, I had so many dead leaves in the house from them sicking to their clothes and falling off in the house. I had to sweep and vacuum a million times that day. Not too bad of a price, though, considering I didn't have to pay any money to keep my kids and their friends entertained for the whole day!

I guess as the weather turns colder and snowier, we can look forward to all of the creative play
from the kids in the white stuff. Stay tuned!