Fall Fun: Leaves and Halloween Decorating

We have a beautiful sugar maple in the front yard.  About 1/3 of the leave are down now, plenty for jumping in. 

 

 

 It was just about to rain when we took these pictures and the lighting was so pretty. It smelled amazing too --moist and leafy.

I finally let the kids start putting our Halloween decorations around the house on October 1st.  They had seen them in stores for awhile and wanted to do it in September.  Spooky spiders, webs, pumpkins (hidden by bushes mostly), and bats all over the house. 

We have a lot of glass containers full of acorns around and I bought two new signs --

 

And at co-op school we talked about seeds in our pre-school science class.  They organized them and glued them on their plates.