colouring fall leaves

This week's Saturday activity: a leaf colouring sheet and identification guide for you to download and print. We like to do leaf scavenger hunts in the fall and I started sketching them out so I could remember which leaf is which, and wound up making this colouring sheet set. The guide is in French & English.

November: Winter birds (Birdseed part 2)

November is the time when birds' nests begin to show themselves, as the trees lose their leaves. You can read all about our homemade birdhouse and our birdseed here. We also bought a birdhouse that would attach to the outside of a window (as we don't have an easy way to attach a hanging birdhouse). It's become popular with many little birds in our neighbourhood and we have a steady stream of visitors outside our window.

November: Windy days and early presents

Here's another nice thing about November: we are giving away a copy of Windy. If you find it a little too cold to make a real kite, make a mini-one and fly it in your living room.

November: Leaves

From Autumn Leaves by Ken Robbins. All the leaves are printed at life size in this great book we found at the library after trying to identify a leaf on our way home.

This doesn't deserve its own post, but we've had a lot of fun making chestnut hedgehogs this week, too.

November: Butter in the Buttercups

Today, as part of our November week, a poem from from Butter in the Buttercups, 1980, by Stella Browning.

November

It's November. The days are shorter, the mornings are darker. Hallowe'en's over. Christmas isn't quite yet here (and we have an advent calendar craft coming up soon). But there is still fun to be had.

Instead of one Saturday post, let's do 7 short ones, one for each day this week to celebrate this most serious of months.

(Drawing by Tove Jansson).