Write about a character making fall decorations out of construction paper.

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“Last Page Of Fall” by Jean Mitchell

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The air was filled with clapping and cheering, the children's excitement echoed in the hall of the orphanage. Annually, a group of kind-hearted locals would pay a visit to the orphans to at least still make them feel loved and valued. Every fall they'd host a party in the small center home to not more than thirty children, giving them early gifts for Christmas too. Brian and Elise enjoyed watching the kids jump up and down in an uncontainable joy, their faces lit like a Christmas tree. It was the couple's first time to take part in this...

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“Balance” by Petra Sando

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His hands, flapping around uselessly on the way down the cliff face, grasped nothing but air. Finally, he perceived a sickening crack -- a sound that appeared to come from all around him, yet from deep inside -- as bone collided with age-old rock. The last neuron impulses, which flashed through Jim D. Brick's dying brain formed a single thought: Why them -- what did I ever do to them?! Heidi Brick used a template to draw another few maple leaves onto pages of orange, brown, and...

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“Autumn” by Ken Coomes

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I picked up the blunt black crayon and started drawing shapes on the yellow construction paper. “Remember when you showed me how to do this, dad? I was four years old, and you told me I could make anything I wanted to make.” We were sitting in the common room of Home Life, an assisted living facility. It wasn’t home, and it wasn’t filled with family. But Home Life was a lovely place, only three miles from our home. “All I could make that day was unrecognizable geometric shapes. And you told me they were beautiful, imaginative shapes all m...

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“A Bewitched Pile of Paper” by Harlow Jones

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Today was a long, bad, terrible, horrible, horrific, miserable day. Tom from accounting was late finishing his report. Patrick from IT spilled his coffee on her blouse, and traffic made her commute home three times longer than it needed to be. But now she was finally home. She was back to her oasis, her safe haven, her refuge. She opened the door with a smile. “I’m home!” she declared. But her smile did not last more than one second. The twenty piles of leaves in the living room were nowhere near as impressive as the five trees in the kitch...

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“Moo’s Adventure with Construction Paper” by Tedi Carey

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I I love making things! Grandma bought me a bunch of colored paper and asked me to make the decorations for her tiny apartment. She doesn’t have much for decorations and it is almost time for Thanksgiving! We spent some time looking up what type of decorations she wanted me to make. She wants at least ten pumpkins of all sizes, hundreds of leaves, and a turkey or two! Right now we are sitting around the coffee table with stencils to make the leaves. We are drawing as many as we can fit on each sheet of paper. “Moo” Grandma said, “now...

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“Making the Leaves Fall” by Greg Gorman

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Living in Florida sounds fun and exciting. Unless, of course, if you actually live in Florida. People imagine life in Florida as always being warm. Always being able to wear shorts or swim. Never being cold. People who actually live in the Sunshine State know better. They know about the heat. The humidity. The daily thunderstorms in August. The sweltering heat in July and, unknown to those who live up north, they know about the occasional frost that can occur in the winter. Taijon knew about all these things. After all, he had lived in Flo...

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“Leaves and Memories” by Liz G

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It was autumn again, so it was time to put the leaves up. She used some from last year, but most were ripped and faded and forgotten in far corners of her too-big house. So, as always, she sat down and cut out the shapes from red and orange and yellow construction paper. She was one of the only ones who remembered what leaves really looked like. Most of the others who dutifully hung the seasonal decorations cut out triangles for leaves, or rectangles, or even circles. Some, the older people like her, could still cut out the shapes of leave...

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“Another First Thanksgiving ” by Travis Frank

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I opened the closet door to find the stack of paper. All the colors of the construction paper; black, green, yellow, brown, orange, red, blue stacked in its dull rainbow. In a small box were glue, glitter, ribbons, and scissors right where she left them. The day was a drab as the construction paper, gray and overcast with rain. Wet leaves sticking to the walkway, the dog came in from his venture in the rain only to shake the water everywhere. I called his name; he looked at me as if asking if he had done somet...

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“The Fall Project” by David Dicaire

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The Fall Project The previous fall, Gladys Southers had missed out because she had fallen and broken a hip. This meant, missing out on Halloween. Out of all the holidays, she loved the creepy day the best. She remembered as a young girl, the excitement of picking out a costume and running up and down the streets gathering a pillow case full of candy. As an adult, she just loved handing out candy to all the little trick or treaters. The costumes and cuteness was something that she couldn’t ge...

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“The Fall Decorations Made by Me” by Kalyn Bumpus

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I walked to the front of the classroom and grabbed a pair of scissors. Walking back to my desk, I saw other students already finishing their projects, and I had just started. I walked up to the table next to the teacher’s desk and grabbed multiple sheets of construction paper. Some were orange, some were yellow, some were even green! But I choose red, mainly because I like red maple leaves. They’re the prettiest in my opinion. “Look at mine, Riley! Isn’t it pretty?” My twin sister, Raleigh, squealed quietly. I nodded and sat down at my d...

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“Crafting for Krista ” by Brittany Smith

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Was this a house or a home? I shook my head ruefully as I gazed at the barren yard. Tulips and Petunias long gone, faded from summer heat and done away by Autumn's first freeze. Bitter October winds whipped chipped gray shutters against charcoal siding, faded form years of sun and wind. Bushes overgrown, grass long and unkempt...even the door is bare bones. A dark contrast from the playful wreaths which once graced the front door. A new wreath for each season, every holiday, and even for birthdays. I pull the lapels of my coat closer to ...

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“In an Autumn Classroom ” by Eleanor Grayson

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Construction paper was everywhere – on the floor, on the desks, on the tables, in children’s hair, on their shirts. Red, orange, brown, yellow pieces were haphazardly strewn as chubby hands tried to maneuver safety scissors in curved lines and jagged, zig-zag patterns. There were uncapped markers and uncapped tubes of glue. There was glitter, there were sprinkles, there were plastic gemstones. There were brown hand turkeys and red apples and black bats and orange pumpkins with green pipe cleaners spiraling from the stems. On the windows were...

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“Thankful for Life's Little Things” by Yellow Flower

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I held the red construction paper in my hands. Ever so lightly I cut along the sharpie lines. My scissors gilded around the page. Finally creating a pile of hand made decorations. Once all that was left of my red paper was simple scraps, I grabbed the same in yellow and began again. Tracing and drawing different silhouettes on my paper. Grabbing my scissors, and cutting them out. Making a neat pile of my work. Then began the process again and again. I was determined to create as much as possible. I would use them and decorate my room in thei...

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“Autumn Treasure” by Lisa Onion

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A little boy with short black hair and a gleam in his brown eyes roamed over the materials that he has before him. He took a bite of his pumpkin spice pancake while ideas swirled in his mind, filled with imagination. So many ideas played around in his head as he ate his breakfast but when he finished, he could not help but immediately get to work. Construction paper of various colors, glue, markers, crayons, yarn, tape and oh the amazing possibilities that he could do with this. Quickly, he got up from his place and went to put on a coat o...

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“The Mother That Could Have Been ” by Ayelet Portman

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“Carefully use the scissors to curve your way around the paper, and then—voila!” Lily finished the leaf cutout and put it on the table for her daughter to see. “Whoa,” Alyssa whispered, her eyes widening, as if it was the coolest thing she had ever seen. “How did you do that?” Lily couldn’t help but find her daughter’s amazement amusing. Lily laughed. “Do you want me to show you again?” Alyssa nodded, and Lily pulled out another piece of paper. As she was folding the paper over and over, she thought back to when Alyssa was first born. It had...

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Write about a character making fall decorations out of construction paper.

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✍️ 45 stories

“Last Page Of Fall” by Jean Mitchell

“Balance” by Petra Sando

“Autumn” by Ken Coomes

“A Bewitched Pile of Paper” by Harlow Jones

“Moo’s Adventure with Construction Paper” by Tedi Carey

“Making the Leaves Fall” by Greg Gorman

“Leaves and Memories” by Liz G

“Another First Thanksgiving ” by Travis Frank

“The Fall Project” by David Dicaire

“The Fall Decorations Made by Me” by Kalyn Bumpus

“Crafting for Krista ” by Brittany Smith

“In an Autumn Classroom ” by Eleanor Grayson

“Thankful for Life's Little Things” by Yellow Flower

“Autumn Treasure” by Lisa Onion

“The Mother That Could Have Been ” by Ayelet Portman

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Set your story in a coffee shop that’s just introduced a new line of autumnal drinks.

Start your story with the line, “By the time I stepped outside, the leaves were on fire.” (Whether this is a literal fire is up to you.)

Write a story from the perspective of a bird migrating for the winter.

Write about two characters going apple picking.

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