A Nearly Perfect Day for Leaf Gathering

People spend money on buying fall decorative items at Micheal's or Hobby Lobby. Why not use the real thing and create your own fall accents.

This is a great project for people with young children. Go out into the yard or a park and have them search for the most colorful leaves. Then take them home and press them between pages of a book. Have the children check on the leaves every couple of days to see how the colors change or don't' change. Then help them to research why...then tell me because I haven't the slightest idea.

But I always pick leaves, dry them and then use them all fall to add color to table settings or any number of other ideas. This year Martha Stewart is having you use dried fall leaves to decorate hand made thank you notes. The possibilities are endless and the cost is zero.