From Seed to Pumpkin

The students used the ABCYA Animate App on the iPad to show how a pumpkin grows.

Here is a cute YouTube Song.

Pumpkin Prints

We practiced drawing Jack-o-Lanterns and then we sketched them onto scratch foam. We rolled on orange paint and then turned it over onto yellow construction paper to create a print. I had a parent pull students one at a time to print which made it very easy on me.

Here are some sample sketches.

This is what it looks like before we turn it over to print.

 

Here is a great Free Pumpkin Life Cycle to go with it.

Life Cycle of a Pumpkin

 

We read Pumpkin Pumpkin and then put the life cycle of a pumpkin in order. We talked about all the things we can do with a pumpkin and then made the bottom of our paper a mosaic Jack-O-Lantern.

Pumpkin Life Cycle Sequence Cards

Life Cycle Words

Free Pumpkin Life Cycle

Here's a great video on how a pumpkin grows:

 

This is also a VERY cute pumpkin life cycle project from:

Sweet Tea Classroom

Life Cycle Mini Book

 

 

Pumpkin Art

We learned about tints, shades, and layering all in one art project. We drew three pumpkins, colored the middle two sections in orange and then added white to the orange to tint the color for the middle, then we added black to the orange to make the shaded outside edges. We painted the background and then layered the pumpkins before gluing them on. Pretty cute for fall. I'm thinking they can stay up until Thanksgiving!

Click HERE for the directions I used as a guide for how to draw a pumpkin from Creative Art Lessons.

Pumpkin Activities

Life Cycle of a Pumpkin

Life Cycle Cards

Pumpkin Life Cycle Bracelet

Read:

1 1/2 inch orange scrapbook paper squares made into the shape of a pumpkin. The students drew and cut out their own face. 

Pumpkin symmetry

Pumpkin Math

We measured the circumference of the  pumpkin with string to see if our string was too long, just right or too short:

We graphed what kind of face our pumpkin would have:

 This was what we voted on:

We dug out all the seeds and grouped them by tens and then hundreds.

There were 450 in all. 

Click HERE for a Jack-O-Lantern candy corn math game (addition and subtraction) from classroom freebies.

 

Pumpkin Patterns

Pumpkin "Patch"

Patchwork Pumpkins

Cover the back with 1 1/2 inch orange scrapbook paper squares.

Turn it over and cut out the pumpkin shape.

Pumpkin Pattern