Too Many Pumpkins and A Painted Pumpkin Patch

We read the book 

Too Many Pumpkins

by: Linda White

The book is about a woman named Rebecca Estelle and she hates pumpkins. She was forced to eat them everyday as a child. One day years and years later an overloaded truck dropped a huge pumpkin in her yard, and SPLAT, pumpkin and seeds went everywhere. She buried the mess and swore never to think about it! The very next year she ended up with a bumper crop!

This is a great book for ages 4-8, we read every year!

After reading the book we decided to make a pumpkin patch.

To Make:

Orange Paint

Green Marker

Cardstock

Have child make a fist, use knuckles to make pumpkins. Draw stems to complete.

inspiration found here.

Thanks for stopping by,

Lori

Pumpkin Painting | Free Style Art

My definition of free style art means to let the children just do anything they wanted with their pumpkins without any instructions. 


Items used:

• pumpkins
• tempera paints
• paint brushes
• paint trays
• tot trays

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Ah..But there was a book first!


Too Many Pumpkins!
by: Linda White

We read this book every year! Rebecca Estelle hates pumpkins because she was forced to eat them as a child because her family was struggling, and that's all they had to eat! So when the pumpkin truck accidentally drops a ripe pumpkin from the back of it's truck in her garden that splattered everywhere, Rebecca Estelle decided to ignore the pumpkin. When she saw vines growing in her garden she decided if she didn't tend to it, her pumpkin problem would go away. Until...Fall came, she discovered she has a problem of epic proportions on her hands: TOO MANY PUMPKINS!

Thanks for stopping by, we enjoyed our Pumpkin Day!

Lori

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