Dear Mummy, what’s not to love about autumn? It’s our favourite time of year. We love how the scenery changes from green to orange, then gold to red. The trees look so beautiful and there’s a chill in the air. On a bright sunny day, a fresh walk into the woods can be exhilarating and awe-inspiring. We took one of these walks recently and discovered the first signs of Autumn.
5 ways to reconnect with nature this Autumn.
1) Hunting for Conkers
We had fun hunting for conkers around the big horse chestnut trees, a lot of them still hanging on the branches. The ones we found lying on the ground were still in their green cases and we had to break them open with our heels.
2) Land Art
Some leaves have begun to fall, amazing colours lie on paths waiting to be picked up and inspected. We created an Autumn Mandala last year and will be doing the same. Land Art is a great activity for children. We like identifying leaves, berries and seeds too.
3) Foraging
Discovering all the Autumn fruits can be really good fun. Foraging for blackberries in hedgerows and spotting giant pumpkins on the vegetable patch, there are so many delicious delights this season. How many can you find? We’re looking forward to scrumping apples, drinking hot cider and eating crumbles. Toasting marshmallows and drinking hot chocolate. On our walk we even discovers mushrooms, but we weren’t brave enough to pick them as we couldn’t identify them!
We could never get fed up of the cold wearing warm, soft chunky knits, bobbly hats and waterproofs. Puddle jumping is one of my favourite activities and running in the woods, free and wild.
4) Carving Pumpkins
Some of the climaxes of Autumn for us is Halloween, Bonfire Night and Diwali, to brighten up our chilly nights. We love the preparation of Halloween, going to a farm and carving pumpkins. Watching the fireworks and smelling bonfires.
5) Immerse yourself
Go on a woodland walk, visit a farm or just visit your local park. Cold fresh air and a brisk walk is enough to rejuvenate yourself and make you feel alive! We have fun making woodland crowns and wands and pretending to be fairies and elves, witches and wizards. My mummy always packs a small amount of sellotape and sewing scissors in her rucksack just incase there’s an outdoor craft activity waiting to happen.
Do you love Autumn too? What’s your favourite part of the season?
Love Bella xx
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I love these ideas. Autumn is easily my favourite seaon
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I love your daughters Leaf crown. She looks like a little Autumn fairy #PointShoot
I love the autumn colours. Great shot of the half open conker x
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Well Bella, my two little girls love Autumn too, and we love doing all the things that you have done. Last week, we foraged Hazelnuts and have left them to dry out ready for Christmas! Thanks for sharing some lovely ideas. #WhateverTheWeather
What a lovely idea to make woodland crowns! I’m looking forwards to autumn walks and we’ve already noticed that the seasons are changing. #Whatevertheweather
I used to adore conker hunting when I was a child, it was always such fun and colours autumn bring it is beautiful. x
Conkers, I’ve not seen conkers in so long, I remember in my childhood and teen, having conker fights, nothing said Autumn more than those lol x
Great ideas, I love Autumn. I have such fond memories of conker picking with my parents when I was younger x
My husband is a big fan of autumn – I’m a summer lover, so I’m still sulking about it disappearing so soon, but I’ll embrace autumn eventually – there’s so much to love about it! We love conker hunting and pumpkin carving and all the beautiful oranges, reds, and browns. #WhatevertheWeather
Autumn is my favourite season and I love to go foraging, especially for elderberries.
Autumn is my favourite season as you can have hot chocolate, it’s nicer to burn candles and you can wrap up warm. I need to get out more and explore nature more though x
just thinking whether ive carved a pumpkin before. I’m not sure but i need to!
These are such lovely ideas. I love autumn.
One of my favourite times of the year as the leaves start to fall off trees and conkers arrive x
It’s been a lovely Autumn so far, so we are still spending quite a bit of time outside.
Oh my your photos have made me more excited for Autumn! How could I forget the fun of conker hunting? I think as we get older we forget the fun that you can find in nature (unless you have small children of course). My favourite part of autumn has to be Bonfire Night when our town puts on a massive fireworks display which has become our little tradition, I can only hope we have kids on day so we can do all these things too x
Love the idea of cellotape and scissors in the backpack. Never know what adventures are round the corner! Thanks for sharing these lovely ideas.
Loving to see the shades of autumn. Carving pumpkins would be perfect for the Halloween.:)
Love all of these ideas. We have recently returned from a wkd in the Forest of Dean and we did actually try most of these:)
I love going out to pick blackberries and then baking with them when we get home
Gorgeous. These are really great ideas. I love the conkers and little beautiful fairy photos. x #pointshoot
Oh I do love the photo of your daughter and the ideas for embracing Autumn.#Whatevertheweather
I remember going picking blackberries with my dad when I was a child. Then making crumble after. Those were the days
These are fantastic ideas. I love blackberry picking and conker collecting and hope to do both with Sylvia this year!
I love your pictures they are really good. I didn’t realise the conkers were out, might go get some with the kids.
Well this post has most definitely made me look forward to Autumn. Agree with everything on it… especially the Art and looking forward to Halloween and Bonfire night x
This is a great post, I love nature, and I’m constantly in touch with it. I feel that I need it. Btw, your little girls is really cute x
I am excited to do all of these things! Love pumkin carving xx
I used to love foraging as a kid. I used to keep conkers until they were old and wizened.
Now my children are grown I don’t get the chance to do this kind of thing, and I miss it. Roll on when the grandchildren arrive!!
I love autumn so much because there’s so much you can do with the nature around you! I used to love collecting conkers and now I try go out for walks in the woodland ares as much as I can so I can be surrounded by it all!
I love Autumn!! Can’t wait to get some conkers.
There’s a huge Conker tree I pass on the way home from work. Not ashamed to say I will be picking some up! *They are good at keeping spiders out of the house!
I actually adore autumn but it always seems to fly past before I can really enjoy its glory! There are so many colours and things to see and do outdoors.
Autumn is my favourite time of the year! We live by a park that’s full of conker trees and we love collecting them… We make sure we keep a couple on the windowsills in each room to ward off spiders! xx
Great post. I used to love hunting for conkers when I was little.
I definitely want to do more walks through nature this fall! That sounds magical!
xoxo, Candice
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Loving your ideas. Perhaps I’ll go foraging in my garden, I’m sure theres a blackberry bush! xxx
We have been going out for so many walks as the weather is perfect for it. I can’t wait until it starts to feel more like autumn though.
I love autumn, definitely my favourite season. Fab ideas- can’t wait to get out there exploring and try some out #whatevertheweather
The land art is so awesome. We will definitely need to stop and appreciate it more. #whatevertheweather
Great suggestions, we love them all. I love autumn for the expectation it brings with it. Thanks for linking up to #PointShoot x
Oh I absolutely love that your mummy has sellotape and sewing kit with her on outdoor outings, that is preparation!! We love autumn too and the collecting of all kinds of nature items is the best! Thanks for linking up to #Whatevertheweather 🙂 x