Seasonal Children's books

So I had a light bulb moment while drinking my Tea! 

I wanted to introduce Lilah to reading a bit more than just a bed time story. So we pulled out her book case and revamped it! 

Because I am slightly obsessed with the autumn/ winter months I thought it would be a good idea to teach Lilah about the season's through books. Trailling through Amazon I found some beautiful books all to do with Fall/autumn, pumpkins, foraging, Halloween and Thanksgiving (have always wanted to celebrate this) !

We then went to the park near us and collected conkers, acorns, and leaves to decorate the book case with.

Cuddling with your kids, watching them become engrossed in a story told to them from their own parents animated character vocie, is a priceless experience. More and more studies are proving how beneficial reading with a parent is for developing children. 

A child who has been read to will want to learn to read herself. She will want to do what she sees her parents doing. Reading increases a child's attention span and a parent's own cognitive ability, It is one of the most essential and valuable activities kids can inherit from parents simply by observing them being engrossed in a book or magazine. 

When we pack away the Halloween decorations this year, I will be pulling on the Winter/Christmas books to re doctorate this book case with. I wanted to conitue to rotate this books throughout the year with New year, Valentines day, Spring, Summer and so on 

The books in this picture were all purchased on Amazon:
Maisys, Trick or Treat
Beware Beware 
Let it Fall
The Berebatain Bears - Thanksgiving 
Pumpkin Soup
The haunted House
Squirrel's Autumn Search
Halloween Surprise

Bramble Ramble

While I sat drinking my tea and eating my porridge full of blackberries, that we had foraged for when we where camping, i smiled because the itv news did a piece on foraging for fruits and veg of the British countryside, Sooo I thought this would make a good blog post, sooo here you goo :) ....

The British countryside is the best supermarket of all, healthy, sustainable and free!

Every year since I was a young, as the summer begins to wind down and autumn begins, we go foraging! Early autumn is one of the most productive times, from apples and blackerberries to the last of the plums meeting the first of the pears and we collect the lot, walking down the country lances, baskets, buckets and containers in hand ready to fill to the brim.

Once we even found and entire field of pumpkins! It was so beautiful iv never forgotten it. Bright big orange, shiny pumpkins as far as the eye could see. We grabbed a few and used our jumpers to craddle them in, to carry them back home.

The caravan's are packed up and the jumpers are pulled on as we leave the country side after the summer holiday's and the buckets and bags of berries, apples, plums and pears are pushed in to the car boot ready to come home with us..... then though tout the year mummy bennett pours blackberries in our porridge every morning, and the apples and pear's are pulled out of the freezer ready to be peeled and chop and put in to a hot pie ready for the Sunday roast.

So go for a walk, take a basket and keep your eyes open. Any trees or brambles hanging over a footpath or right of way are yours for the picking.