Inventing interesting activities
Since not everyone can withstand a round-the-clock holiday, the first half of the day at the dacha can be devoted to spending time together with your family - when there is still time for everyone to get together on a country plot, not to work in the beds or make liters of winter preparations, but just to have a spiritual conversation.
Moreover, you can come up with a huge number of interesting activities for the whole family - in accordance with your tastes and habits.
You can, for example, arrange an autumn photo shoot on the street, and choose absolutely any style - a gentle love story, a costume shoot in the form of scary Halloween characters or cartoon characters, a fun and active session with pets, or just a general family walk through the autumn forest...
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By the way, don’t forget to film your most important achievement at the dacha as a “brag” – the current harvest! And to show off to friends, and as a cheat sheet for comparison next year, and as a reason to participate in numerous online competitions and exhibitions, of which there are now many on social networks.
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You can organize a family sports competition in any sport or a mini-concert right outside around the fire or on the veranda near the house if the autumn weather is capricious. Let each participant in the holiday think through his act in advance - the performance of a song with a guitar, an autumn poem, a competition for those present, in which more people can be involved. If you have a friendly and creative company, you can generally make the harvest party themed and ask everyone to come in certain costumes on any theme and play with them in some interesting way.
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Give gifts
The New Year and traditional Christmas gifts are still far away, but why not diversify the autumn holiday with gifts for loved ones? And we’re not talking about huge expenses and expensive purchases at all - please your friends and family with cute garden-themed trinkets (don’t forget what our holiday is dedicated to!). These can be either the above-mentioned funny crafts from available autumn materials, or cute trinkets from the Internet, but selected individually for each person.
This could be a potted plant, a book about landscape design, a cheat sheet on making a birdhouse, a phytolamp, rubber boots or gardening gloves, a hammock, a set of flower pots, a subscription to a thematic magazine, a headlamp, a vinometer-saccharometer...
Fantasize about the presentation process, remember the habits and skills of each recipient - any gift can be accompanied by a thematic quatrain or a short story about why this particular person gets this particular package or box. Then the process of exchanging gifts will not only be interesting and noisy, but also very fun and individual, everyone will appreciate the attention!
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We decorate the house and plot
To create the appropriate festive mood, of course, you first need to create a frame for it - decorate the house and grounds. And not just to decorate, but to decorate in an autumn way - it’s Harvest Day after all.
What materials are suitable for these purposes? Of course, natural and improvised ones - from the autumn forest, from the garden flower bed, or just from the garden bed! Collect a bouquet of autumn leaves or make “roses” from them, cut funny faces on pumpkins, build a panel of late flowers on a wooden plank, make funny crafts from pine cones or acorns with your children, hang a wreath of twigs with bunches of rowan berries or a garland on the door from multi-colored foliage, hide miniature lamps in openwork vine balls...
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Or maybe you are a real master and are able to amaze your guests with the wonders of carving? A variety of fall fruits and vegetables are perfect for this hobby!
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Preparing an autumn treat
And later in the evening, having had plenty of conversation and getting hungry in the fresh air, you can all sit down to the festive table together. Moreover, we can agree that everything, everything that will be served on the table on this holiday will be the fruits of this autumn - you haven’t forgotten yet what the occasion of the holiday is?
Spicy pumpkin or tender corn puree soup, aromatic mushroom pie, vitamin salad from late fresh vegetables, oven potatoes with garlic and rosemary, spicy solyanka, French ratatouille or Hungarian leczo, sun-dried tomatoes, carrot cutlets, sauerkraut and lightly salted cucumbers, apple charlotte according to a family recipe, green muffins with spinach, homemade strawberry pastille or fruit ice cream, five-minute jam... Really, the names alone make you lick your lips?
By the way, all these recipes are absolutely not complicated - any housewife can handle them, and you can find out the exact quantities of all ingredients and the secrets of preparing dishes on our website in the extensive and popular Country Kitchen section.
And another creative idea is to prepare not only dishes from the gifts of the garden, but also... dishes for serving them! Turnips, pumpkins, zucchini, apples and even large dense lettuce and cabbage leaves, with a little effort, can become, depending on their size and density, an excellent container for soup, salads, appetizers, and desserts. And a cake stand in a rustic style can even be built from a polished wooden round saw. Ever thought this was possible? Try to surprise your loved ones with creativity!
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Competition "Snow Basketball"
A basket or bucket is placed near the Christmas tree. A cup with “snowballs” is placed near the player who stands opposite the bucket at a distance of 5-7 steps from him. They can be foil balls, or small balls, or paper lumps. The player, from where he stands, must try to throw all the “snowballs” into the bucket. After all players have made their throws, a count is made. The most dexterous one, who throws the largest number of “snow balls” into the basket, wins.
