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An Autumn Seasonal Table

Autumn is a time of great change and activity. Replace you pretty summer clothes with earthy brown and orange clothes for a background. Your autumn table can be filled with a wonderful assortment of leaves and treasures as nature sheds its bounty. It is also the time of apples, the first fires, and winter breezes. Make some simple kites with the children, go kite flying, and then put them on the table as a centrepiece.   

Mother Nature could put her shawl and bonnet on and can be carrying a basket of apples. You could also make a little scene with a squirrel collecting nuts or a mouse busily preparing it’s home for winter. Read or tell the children some stories which describe autumn activity and let them suggest some ideas.  

The Squirrel

Whisky, frisky, hippity hop,

Up he goes to the treetop,

Whirly, twirly, round and round,

Down he scampers to the ground.

Furly, curly, what a tail,

Tall as a feather, broad as a sail.

Where’s his supper? In the shell.

Snap, crack, out it fell.

From:  A Child’s Seasonal Treasury   Betty Jones, Tricycle Press 1996