If you would like to make some winter flowers to have in vases when all the garden flowers are gone, collect some of the dried grasses, and flowers-especially those with empty seed pods. Pick them when they are dried out. The tall sea grass found at the beach is very nice to use.

These should be painted with colored enamel paint, or gold and aluminum. Rest the spray on a newspaper and paint it with a small brush, then dry it standing it in a bottle.

In the fall, when many plants and bushes have gone to seed, there are various things to collect to make chains to wear around your neck, or give to your mother to wear. Hunt around for red berries, pumpkin seeds, or bittersweet blossoms, and see what unusual necklaces you can make.

Take Care Of Your Books

How well do you take care of your books? Do you keep your place by turning the corner down? Do you leave it open and turned face down, so the binding will break? Do you read your books out on the grass, and leave them there when you go off to play-sometimes forgetting them until morning?

Books are something we want to keep. Of course a library book does not belong to us, and we should take every precaution to keep it in as good condition as when we receive it.

Why not make some bookmarks to use in keeping your place when you stop reading?

Start with a square piece of paper-that is all sides the same length. Fold it diagonally in half; then fold it in half again. Open the paper, and cut off one triangle section. Lay the center triangle under the corner of your page, and turn the two side pieces over one another on top of the corner. Paste them down this way, and you have a book mark.-Make it a bright color so you will be able to see it easily.

Make A Poem

You know the saying, "You're a poet, didn't know it." Perhaps you are. Have you ever tried to make a rhyme? Begin by thinking of all the words that rhyme with day. Go through the alphabet, pronouncing the letters and adding ay. Sometimes two letters can be added- like st, pl, or br-and they still rhyme. See how long a list of rhyme words you can make, then try to use some of them in a poem.

See if you can fill in the missing rhyme words of this poem.

I had a cold, and went to bed.

They put a pillow at my----,

And gave me quite a tiny pill.

I really was not very---.

Out of the window I could see

A robin redbreast in a----.

It flew way up into the sky, Just like an airplane he flew -