Don't you just love the sound of crunchy leaves underneath your feet and the change of colours autumn brings?
I've been so excited to do this blog knowing that it meant it would be October half term and I get to spend a week with my boys. We began our week with lots of walks through the leaves talking about the colours and sounds we could see and hear. Autumn is such an amazing season for your little one to explore their senses in so many ways. Oscar has loved climbing on stones, playing hide and seek behind trees and picking up lots of sticks...the bigger the better.
Every time we cross a bridge it has become the norm to say "Who's that trotting over my bridge?" after reading 'The Three Billy Goats' book. Not only has he learnt the trotting over the bridge phrase but every time I now say one, two he finishes off the counting with threeeeeeee.
Conker hunting
I've never really been conker hunting before so after asking a few friends they told me maybe the beginning of October would have been better to go but with being so busy we decided to go on the hunt anyway. We went to Ashton park in Preston as it is only a short drive away from us. We found lots of horse chestnut trees :) after a bit of searching I found plenty. Oscar wasn't as interested as i'd hoped he would be but he had fun with his STICK moving the leaves around. However after a short amount of time this bench became his favorite thing. I can't blame him can you?
Sand Dunes in St Annes
It's been one of the coldest days so far today but we still decided to go on an adventure to the sand dunes. After taking some Year 3 children here years ago I thought I would take Oscar and my hubby for a different afternoon out. We wrapped up warm and set off. Oscar had so much fun playing in the sand, digging, mark making, throwing sand and following our footprints.
Creative play
Conkers in old tins
Not only did Oscar love putting the conkers in and out of the tins he also threw them in the air using the lid, used the tin as a rattle and tried to balance the tins on top of each other. I love watching him being so imaginative with his play. Don't you wish sometimes you could jump into their little heads to see what they are really thinking?
Messy Play
I decided to set the garden up using the idea of Autumn 'things' and textures. Below is a list of things we used:
shaving foam on a tray
rice in his trailer
a tray of Autumn items - leaves, sticks, small pumpkins, acorns and conkers
his water and sand pit
play doh
balls
plus anything else he has out in the garden
This was my favourite part when he picked up his pumpkin then rolled it in the shaving foam before covering it in rice and finally dunking it in the water. Imaginative play at its finest.
A trip to a pumpkin farm to get us in the Halloween mood.
Oscar thought he was so strong bless him and tried to pick up this big pumpkins.
Very excited Oscar sitting on the pumpkin. I think he preferred using it as a slide :) weeeeeeee.
We played a lot with the pumpkins this year....counting them, making proper pumpkins, feeling and talking about the textures and the most fun of all was hiding the pumpkins in different places, encouraging Oscar to look for them around the house.
Thank you so much for taking time to read my blog. Please comment below if you have a blog or know of any blogs you would recommend me reading.
We haven't manged to do as many things colours to complete a blog on it so we combined colours in Autumn and my next blog coming up soon on mark making.
Thank you
Sam