Compassion Corner: Autumn Folder for our Compassion Children

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Here in Tasmania the days are getting shorter and the temperature is dropping as we approach Autumn and then another long winter. As many of my Compassion children only have two seasons, “the wet and the dry” I decided to create some folders for them about Autumn in Tasmania.

To start I folded an A3 piece of light card in half. Using www.pizap.com I created a collage of myself, the child and 2 photos I had from my garden last Autumn. This I had printed at the local BigW so I had a large glossy A5 size photo for the cover. The Autumn title was created by using a photo as the background and writing the title over it then printing it with a normal printer.

Inside the folder I used 4 photos from last Autumn taken in our gardens and added a little bible verse I found on the internet. (sorry I can’t remember where I found it). The leaf I made by doing a crayon rubbing over a leaf on thin good quality paper. The little coloured Autumn leaves were from a craft shop.

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On the back I used a bit of wrapping paper with Pooh and Piglet just for fun. The leaf collage was also using

www.pizap.com

but just printed from a printer. I also added a photo of my grandson playing in the Autumn leaves last year. For the older children aged 15 to 19 I will just send this and an autumn bookmark from www.avtivityvillage.com.uk.

For the younger children I have attached with tape a yellow paper page to the edge of the folder and then folded it inside the folder. On this I have stuck puzzles, games etc.

For the very little ones aged 4-6 I added 2 colouring pages (reduced in size by a photocopier) an apple maze and a game of dominoes which came all from www.activityvillage.com.au.

Also a bookmark. The little activity booklet came from Scholastic Australia as part of a black liner set on Autumn they sell for $10.

For the7-10 year olds I used the same yellow page set up but I put more difficult puzzles and a set of little Autumn symbol cards ( from Scholastics.au)to be coloured, a book mark and the activity book. One of the puzzles required them to use colour by numbers and as most of my children speak other languages I used a coloured pencil to circle the numbers with the right colour so they will know which colour to use without having to read the words.