CHEERY JACK-O’LANTERNS
You will need orange paper plates plus yellow and green construction paper for this activity.
Cut yellow paper into triangle and half-circle shapes for making Jack-o’lantern faces.
Let each of your children choose one of the orange paper plates and several yellow shapes.
Have children glue their shapes onto their paper plates to make jack-o’lanterns.
Help each child fold a green paper strip in half and staple it to the top of his or her jack-o’lantern.
Using the loop in the stems, string the lanterns across your room.
DECORATING REAL PUMPKINS
Besides cutting out pumpkins shapes for your child to decorate, sometimes
it is fun to just let her decorate the outside of an uncut pumpkin.
One way to do this is to let her use markers to create a
face.
Another option is to let her
glue on paper features.
Younger children enjoy just
adding hats and scarves to their pumpkins.
3-D PUMPKINS
This project is for older preschoolers.
Give your child an orange paper cut out of a pumpkin shape
approximately 5 - 6 " wide.
Then, give him some glue, some orange 1"
tissue squares and an old pencil.
Have him pick up a tissue square in one
hand and place the flat end of the pencil in the center of the
square with the other hand.
Then, have him twist the pencil, causing
the paper to twist around the pencil
Next, have him dip the bottom of the tissue
paper into some glue and press it onto the pumpkin shape.
Continue this process until all the paper
is covered with tissue swirls.
ADDITIONAL PUMPKIN ACTIVITIES
Check out the Pattern Station. Not only are their different
sizes of pumpkin patterns, there are activity suggestions as
well.
