Autumn Leaves

Autumn is one of the bears' favourite seasons. Especially if the weather is warm and dry as it has been recently.

The leaves on the trees are all changing colour. They are no longer green, but they are now yellow and orange and red and maroon and scarlet! They look really lovely and make a beautiful sight when the bears go out on their walks.

What is especially nice in the Autumn is when all the leaves start to fall from the trees and they all pile up on the ground and when you walk over them they are all crisp and crackly. And, of course, you can't help but kick through the piles as you walk along, sending them scattering into the air to keep falling down again and again!

The leaves are also falling off the trees in the garden. The bears decided to make the garden tidy by raking up all the leaves and putting them in a bucket so that they could then put them in a big black bag to make some leaf mould - which is especially good surrounding their garden plants and in their vegetable beds.

Once the black bag is full of leaves, it can be tied up and some airholes made in it, which will keep it from going soggy, and then left somewhere out of the way until next Spring.

Their pal, Oscar, was visiting for the day and decided to help them. Boo started by gathering the leaves into a pile on the lawn.

When it was getting quite big, they all decided it would be a much better idea to throw the leaves into the air, and let them fall to the ground one last time, preferably with the bears jumping around underneath them! That was great fun!! They all fell about laughing, covered in leaves!!

Unfortunately, the bears still had to then tidy them all up - what a chore!

But they set to, and all had their separate jobs to do - Boo was in charge of raking up all the leaves again. He raked the leaves onto Oscar's shovel, and then Oscar shovelled them into the bucket which Crackers was holding firmly on its side so that it could be filled more easily. The bucket was then emptied into a black refuse sack.

It took several buckets full of leaves to fill their black bag, but after they'd finished, the lawn looked nice and green again.

Oh no!! Another leaf just fell from the apple tree!! The bears will have to start all over again!!

If you go out on any walks during Autumn, enjoy both the fresh air and kicking through the crisp leaves. Have fun!