Adventure Trees

We've been very busy the past few weeks visiting family.  Hope you didn't miss our adventures too much!

We are trying out a few new things for our family this Fall.  One being what I call our Adventure Tree.  The idea came from an unschooling friend of mine's blog Giant Robots Invade the Rancheroo.  When I feel like I need to loosen up on our learning, I peek at what she has going on.  Sarah is a super neat lady!

Anyway, I wanted a visual reminder of all the adventures we would like to have over September, October, and November.  I'm pretty sure we made our tree too small.  We came up with lots of ideas, and have many more, I am sure! The best thing is that we can just keep adding!

I just used large peices of construction paper cut in the shape of the tree trunk and branches.   Then, I asked the children to paint with Fall colors (mostly) on good watercolor paper.  Using a leaf template I found on Enchanted Learning, we made leaf cutouts from the watercolor paper.  I have a love of metallic sharpie markers, which we used to write up all our ideas.  It is very interesting to see what is important to each person in the family.  I think it will be fun to pull off each leaf as we go adventuring.  Come the end of November, I'll post an after season picture.  I am hoping we will have huge leaf pile next to the base of the tree!

Some of our fun ideas include:

make a peach crostata

make a scarecrow
carve pumpkins
go apple picking
go for a hike in the fall leaves
go ice skating with Dad
go to the rock climbing gym with Mom
celebrate birthdays
go camping at the ocean

Just to name a few.
I think we are going to have a busy Fall!

Cheers!
~Forestry Mama