Well Fall is right around the corner..wow..can't wait for some cool weather...sweater weather!! Anyways, what are some FALL traditions you have? We will have a FALL party on OCT.30 with my 2 year old daughter and a few other children..we have cake and punch and dress them, up and take them around the neighborhood in a wagon to get candy and then we come back and enjoy our treats...My daughter was a ladybug last year, a chili pepper the year before that and will either be a sunflower or a cat this year...
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Jenna
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My family didn't have any Autumn traditions aside from going out trick-or-treating on Halloween. But, now that I have a daughter of my own, we are doing little things. When the leaves fall, we'll collect them and press them. I have some decopage glue, and we'll lay them out in a pattern and smear them down. All I'll need is someone to take a picture of the three of us so we can put it in the center before framing.
Most of the traditional things that we are making ourselves are kind of craft based things. Like, at Thanksgiving time, we all make "hand turkeys" and I put them up and keep them after the holiday. It gives us all these cute family things to look at, and to see how our daughter has grown so much each year.
One thing I am going to start, I kind of picked up from a lady friend of mine. She always put up large posters on her door at the holidays, different Christian posters for each occassion. In like fashion, we're going to start making banners for our door, but we're going to draw and color them ourselves. Our daughter is already musically inclined, playing guitar and singing with her father and I. Now I just want to expose her to other art forms. Besides, it gives us ways to express our faith with her in ways that will really stick with her as she grows, not to mention a way to minister to passersby.
Most of the traditional things that we are making ourselves are kind of craft based things. Like, at Thanksgiving time, we all make "hand turkeys" and I put them up and keep them after the holiday. It gives us all these cute family things to look at, and to see how our daughter has grown so much each year.
One thing I am going to start, I kind of picked up from a lady friend of mine. She always put up large posters on her door at the holidays, different Christian posters for each occassion. In like fashion, we're going to start making banners for our door, but we're going to draw and color them ourselves. Our daughter is already musically inclined, playing guitar and singing with her father and I. Now I just want to expose her to other art forms. Besides, it gives us ways to express our faith with her in ways that will really stick with her as she grows, not to mention a way to minister to passersby.
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We go to college football games. Sounds kind of stupid, perhaps, but my 5 year old girl and 3 year old boy love them. They ask about them all spring and summer. So, it works for us.
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Busybee
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I'll take the kids to a Harvest Festival at church.
So no real traditions here. I MAY take her treating to a handful of houses in the neighborhood for the first time ever, then back home we come to give out candy. http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001
So no real traditions here. I MAY take her treating to a handful of houses in the neighborhood for the first time ever, then back home we come to give out candy. http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001
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Our main tradition in the UK is Bonfire night... as decreed byJames I, 400 years ago, to remember the failed gunpowder plot. We still gather in communities to light a fire of 5th Nov each year and set of fireworks. People make an dummy of Guy Fawkes, which is called "the Guy" and burn him on the fire.... and we all gather round having hot dogs, baked potatoes, toffee apples, and parkin. Untly recently I would say it was the only community event left in the UK... but the fear of fireworks is leading to a pus for these to be more mass council organised events which are good but do loose the community spitit. The night before bonfire nights kids go out remembering the mischief of the plotters and play tricks on people... no trick or teat for these little guys...just tricks! I hope next year people will have really big cellebrations as we reach the 400th anniversary of the event.
When we have a fire we don't burn the guy... the lad was Catholic and educated in my home town of York.. it seems unfair to pepetuate the act of re-enacting the burning of a chap who believed he was serving a good cause and the fight against the oppression of Catholoics and became for himself a victim of treachery.
When we have a fire we don't burn the guy... the lad was Catholic and educated in my home town of York.. it seems unfair to pepetuate the act of re-enacting the burning of a chap who believed he was serving a good cause and the fight against the oppression of Catholoics and became for himself a victim of treachery.
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We go apple picking. Of course there's raking the leaves too. Walks in the park enjoying the leaf colors is relaxing and the kids pick up the nicest leaves and we press them and enjoy the colors for a while. We have a final fling in the sandbox and then pack away the summer toys.
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We decorate our house and yard for October with hay and mums and pumpkins...walk in the leaves and rake them..ballgames and chili and roasting marshmallows are also an autumn treat!!!
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We have a hayride every year with all the church kids. We all bundle up the kids in warm clothes and then cover up with sleeping bags and blankets. We roast hotdogs and make s'mores. There's the inevitable 'hay-fight' so we all get sneezy and itchy, but it's fun.
We go trick or treating and to Hallelujah Night at church (a dress up party where the kids play games and get candy).
Then, there's Emily's birthday...my favorite celebration of fall.
She'll be 6 this year and she's got her heart set on a Chucky Cheese party... 
my little girl is growing up.
We also like to go for long drives. We live in the country and it's especially beautiful that time of year with the leaves changing. And raking leaves is one of my girls' favorite fall past times, lol.
We go trick or treating and to Hallelujah Night at church (a dress up party where the kids play games and get candy).
Then, there's Emily's birthday...my favorite celebration of fall.
She'll be 6 this year and she's got her heart set on a Chucky Cheese party... my little girl is growing up. We also like to go for long drives. We live in the country and it's especially beautiful that time of year with the leaves changing. And raking leaves is one of my girls' favorite fall past times, lol.
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I get out my autumny candles and flowers and tablecloth to decorate the house. We rake big piles of fallen maple leaves (we are Canadian, ya know!) The kids roll around in the crunchy, sometimes soggy, leaves. We bring in firewood. We heat partially with a woodstove. Then we have one last bonfire before the flakes fly! Oh, yeah. Bake lots of apple stuff, pies and crisps and whatnot. Maybe we'll try our hands at making gourd candles...Fall is my favourite season.
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LADY DI
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I decorate my house also. Usually in September on the Autumn Equilnox ( offically the first day of fall ), I begin decorating for the autumn holidays. I have Halloween decorations ( nothing scary or evil---just silly jack 'o laterns and stuff you find at Hallmark ) and the day after Halloween I decorate for Thanksgiving----with Pilgrims and Indians.
We also do many things, we go to the pumpkin patch to pick out our pumpkins and buy gourds---we usually make a day out of it.
And since I live in an agricultural area there are many festivals going on at this time. There's the Pumpkin festival, the Grape festival. Octoberfest, the Greek food festival, the Crane festival and the Salmon festival, just to name a few.
Fall is my favorite time of the year!!!!!!
We also do many things, we go to the pumpkin patch to pick out our pumpkins and buy gourds---we usually make a day out of it.
And since I live in an agricultural area there are many festivals going on at this time. There's the Pumpkin festival, the Grape festival. Octoberfest, the Greek food festival, the Crane festival and the Salmon festival, just to name a few.
Fall is my favorite time of the year!!!!!!
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I have loved reading some of your ideas... and I think I will try to do something in my house... I love the idea of deccoration with autum colours and leaves and so on and might try to introduce this to our home to cheer up the comming of winter.
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