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Your Outdoor Calendar: October

With autumn under way, explore this time of changing colours and nature slowing down, while enjoying some necessary maintenance tasks. Julie Mountain explains

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IMAGINATIVE AUTUMN

Springtime is often thought of as the ‘creative’ time of year, with nature renewing itself and people looking forward to longer days and warmer weather. But nature in autumn is working just as hard to shut itself down, and changes can be observed daily. Use the colours and smells of autumn as a creative springboard. Here are a few ideas:

Hold an Autumn Colour Day: ask parents to send children into the setting dressed in browns, oranges and yellows. Take big paintbrushes and rolls of lining paper outdoors and paint with autumnal colours – frame the artworks with sticks.

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