Autumn has brought with it the amazing hues of this season and, here in Portland, the maple trees offer up the most extraordinary palette of technicolor leaves. Every day when I pick Naiya up from school, the teachers seem to have made some child or other one of these beautiful crowns. Hers came a few days ago just when I had collected leaves to put together a little how-to to share with all of you. Aren't they gorgeous? They're a little bit like the daisy chains of Summer in that they require no special tools or materials other than that of which they are made.
Simply break off the stems from the fallen leaves and overlap a third of one with about a third of another.
Carefully thread the stem through to sort of staple the two leaves together.
Lay an additional leaf and thread another stem...
Then another...
...until the band fits your child's head.
Connect the final leaf to the first (with the stems either hidden inside or displayed out) and let your Autumn Princess or Prince enjoy her/his seasonal coronet.
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