1-2-3 Come Make A Pumpkin Craft With Me!
Hi Ho! it’s pumpkin time don’t ya know! At least that’s what my Y5’s always told me when I asked them what month it was. Children come up with the cutest things! One of my all-time favorite activities with my little "punkins" was "Peekin' In A Pumpkin". We'd do this "craftivity" on the day that we carved our class pumpkin.
So that I could orchestrate the lesson, I always sent a newsletter home asking for an adult volunteer to come in and do the honors. My kiddo's would vote what kind of face they wanted, and could choose from a variety of shapes for the eyes and nose, as well as an emotion: happy, sad, scary. I probably don't need to tell you that the "scary" pumpkin won 90% of the time.
I'd give everyone a chance to feel the pumpkin "goop." Surprisingly, some of my kiddo's never had this experience. I'd write their "describing" words on the board, and encouraged them not to repeat an answer that someone had already given. A few wipes would expedite cleaning sticky fingers.
We'd don paint shirts and enjoy painting our paper plate pumpkins orange. While they happily made their "mess-terpieces" my helper would wash the seeds, set some out to dry, so that each child got a scoopful to glue to the "inside" of their pumpkin.
The rest were salted, drizzled with butter and then popped into the cafeteria oven, for later taste testing. Every year about 50% of my Y5's liked pumpkin seeds and the other half didn't. Then we'd graph the results. (Included in packet.)
Here's How To Make A Peekin' In A Pumpkin:
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