When you go for your walk, take a camera with you, if you can.

You don’t need to go far, just around the school grounds or even your own back garden might reveal some amazing treasures, at this time of year.

Select some bits and pieces, brightly coloured leaves, acorns, conkers, stones, sticks, even fallen fruit and arrange them into a design.

Think about what you want to emphasize. Is it colour, shape, texture or all of these?

Don’t add anything that you can’t find in the environment any way. If you need to join things together, think about what you might find in nature, to help you do the job.

This task can last between an hour and several hours, depending on how much time you have to spend and how much thought you put into it.

Take a photo.

When you get back home or back to your classroom, look at the photographs. Does the work tell us anything about nature, the passage of time or life itself? Did you find things that shouldn’t have been there? Maybe you found litter?

You could make a painting that’s all about the  colours you saw.

You could make a drawing that is just about the shapes.

How about a collage, using scrap materials to remind you of the textures?

Maybe you could write a poem about the changing seasons or the passage of time.

Think about how time passing makes you feel.

Here are some words that might help:

transient, nostalgia, poignant, celebration, fleeting, temporary, evanescent, momentary, transitory, ephemeral, life , existence, being, reminiscence, wistful, continuation, emotional, bitter sweet, longing, joyful, passing,, cursory.

Try using a dictionary or thesaurus to help you to understand what all the words mean. Even when you think you know what a word means, sometimes a dictionary can help you to see it in a new way.

Most importantly, have fun!