We started Pumpkin week with a trip to the Pumpkin Patch!

We learned about the Pumpkin Life Cycle by making this fun craft:

We stapled each stage of the pumpkin life cycle to the vine & then Little Bug painted a paper plate orange to be the pumpkin.

Fun, simple way to learn how pumpkins grow!

We read the book It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. This story is adorable. Linus waits all night in the pumpkin patch because he is just confident he is going to see the Great Pumpkin. It’s a story of never giving up hope!

We made a Tangled Pumpkin! We had a lot of fun with this. All you need to do this activity is: Elmer’s glue, orange yarn, wax paper, marker.

First, I drew a pumpkin template onto the wax paper with a black marker. Then we mixed Elmer’s glue and water (to just water down the glue a bit). Then, you pour that mixture onto the wax paper. After that, Little Bug got the orange yarn and coated it with the glue and water mixture until it was a tangled mess! (That is what she was doing in the picture above.)

Once the glue mixture is all on the yarn, we shaped it into the shape of a pumpkin and left it to dry.

After a couple days we hung up our Tangled Pumpkin on the kitchen window!

We read The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything. The story talks about the shoes going CLOMP CLOMP, the pants going WIGGLE WIGGLE, etc., so as we read we did this sequence of events activity to make the “scary” pumpkin man, who turns out to be a scarecrow. Cute story.

We read the book Oh My, Pumpkin Pie. This book is about all the different kinds of pumpkins you see in the pumpkin patch.

We made a graph using different pumpkin faces: sad, happy, silly, mean & surprised. Then we talked about our graph and noticed which pumpkin face had the most, least & the same amount.

- Elaine