{Pumpkins...}

Happy Harvest!! Here is my post on all our pumpkin activities...This is one of my favorite weeks and there is so much fun stuff for the kids to do...I couldn't take pictures of everything [sad face] but here is what I did get.. Enjoy...

Stained glass pumpkins

After reading Pumpkin, Pumpkin we discussed the life cycle of a pumpkin and completed this cute sequencing activity I found over at Mrs. Nelson's Class...

I also got this activity from Mrs. Nelson's Class...It is based on the Five Little Pumpkin poem... However, her version edits out the Halloween elements, which I appreciate since we can not do any kind of Halloween activities at my school...

It is a great project to see which students still need additional help with fine motor skills and their visual spatial ability...

Hanging paper pumpkin lanterns....

Torn Candy Corn...Another awesome fine motor project..and who doesn't love tearing paper?

I made pumpkin ice cubes dyed with red food coloring and we put them in yellow juice to make orange..

PUMPKIN PANCAKES!! One of our former room moms came back to make this delicious treat for our kids... So fun and yummy!!

The kids used straws to blow watered down green paint around paper to make vines...then they added pumpkin cutouts....

Pumpkin patterns...We practiced AB patterns this week with this activity...[stick around til the end and maybe they'll be a freebie..]

No pumpkin week is complete without painting pumpkins!

Don't they look fantastic? I love 'em...

I saw this over at Growing Kinders ...Kathleen did hers on the life cycle of an apple, so I thought why not the pumpkin?  Like hers, the pictures are velcro so the kids can arrange them..There are also numbers on the back so they can self check...

We also carved a pumpkin and completed these cool observation sheets I also found at Mrs. Nelson's Class ...I think it's perfect for my kids...We haven't finish them yet, but we will next week...

We also did a few pocket chart activities including This is Pumpkin Happy and Pumpkin, Pumpkin based on the book...

So that was all the fun we had learning about pumpkins and thanks for sticking aroung through the end.... and as promised here is the Pumpkin Patterns freebie! [click the image to download]

Thanks for reading...