About the time autumn comes around, people normally want to know how they can use their backyard filled with leaves to their advantage instead of just throwing the leaves out. There are many uses from using them as decoration for your home to preparing your garden or yard for the next spring or summer.
A decorative idea if you are the type of person to re-decorate your home per season, is to go outside and look for a few lovely and individual leaves that look flawless, or if the taste suits you, cracked and scarred. If you buy display frames or picture frames, place a single leaf or a few in a nice decorative frame and place them on your wall in the hallway, dining room, or wherever you feel like it. This will not only keep the leaf fresh and new for season to come but will accent your love of the fall season and nature in itself.
Another idea, especially sense it is getting close to the back to school season, is to individualize your childrens’ notebooks and binders with dried flowers or autumn leaves. If you have a binder with the laminated cover for placing something in, slip a few beautiful flowers and scrapbook words in there and you have a labeled and beautiful binder for the new year. Or, take a bit of clear glue and paste the leaves or flowers on a notebook or book cover you plan on using. This idea is also good for those in the nature business and wish to show it on their work notebooks.
Now for getting your garden ready there are a couple of ideas that will help. For Halloween time, you can get the trash bags that look like ghosts, witches and pumpkins and make picking up leaves fun for the family for decorating your home. If you are partial to making your yard look like a graveyard, then raking the leaves into shapes of fresh grave sites is also an option.
Last but not least; don’t forget gardeners to add those autumn leaves to your mulch pile to become compost. Picking up the leaves will make sure your ground doesn’t suffocate during the winter and when spring comes around the compost will make yours gardens grow and flourish.
I hope these ideas have given you the creative urge to go out there and rake those lawns with the family and come up with some creative ideas of your own for those beautiful and yet pesky falling leaves! Have Fun!