I love the idea of miniature things. I have fallen in love with mini pumpkins in the supermarket called munchkin pumpkins but couldn't find mini broom sticks anywhere! So I decided to make my own!

We collected twigs for the broom handles from the local park and I used a few handfuls of straw from a packet of pet bedding from the local discount store. (I have enough straw to make a thousand brooms and the house smells like a rabbit hutch but at £1 it was still good value for what I needed!) I had some elastic bands in the kitchen junk drawer so I reckon they ended up costing less than a penny each!

Simply bunch lengths of straw together and cut along one end for an even line. Tie the bunch round the twig with a small elastic band. I added Halloween plastic rings (I found for 5p each in a local charity shop) round the broom sticks for extra colour. But they look just as effective without.

You can hang them in a garland, use them on your buffet table as place card holders or glue them to a wreath for the front door like we did.

All mini witches welcome at our house!

Yesterday we went out on a mini adventure to the park. The park the dogs visit every day. The regular, most ordinary park. But yesterday it was a park of opportunity. Leaf picking opportunities! We went to find our props for our Autumn Snap Cards and we found them in abundance!

I hope these pictures capture the brotherly love that poured out in that park. I have never been more proud of my sons, even though they were getting filthy! I totally and utterly adore them!

Easy peasy snap cards made from nature. Earlier we went to the park armed with our harvest sack and collected a bag of autumn leaves ready for our snap game.

I drew numbers and different emotion faces on them and then we turned them over playing our version of snap. But the options are endless, letters, animals, if you can draw it you can play it!

Linking up with See Vanessa Craft Tot School Tuesday.