WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH A PUMPKIN?
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Have children cut a string that they think would go around the pumpkin.
Submitted by: Caye Aho
32
Put a small pumpkin in a box (don't tell your students what it is), and play 20 questions. Children get a chance to ask questions such as: "Is it round?", but not questions such as "Is it a cat?" Keep track of questions by making tally marks on the board. After 20 questions, then they can guess what is is.
Submitted by: Caye Aho
33
Estimate how many pumpkin seeds are inside the pumpkin, then cut open and count them, and then roast them.
Submitted by: Caye Aho
34
Make a sugar container with a lid.
Submitted by: Felix Loke
35
Place the pumkin on a table (optional: add
additional items such as a farm hat, an apple, a basket...) Children can then paint a "still life" painting and title it.
Submitted by: Jackie Edwards
36
Measure the circumference and discuss linear measurement, more than and less than!
Submitted by: Lauren Wittel
37
Have a classroom contest. Draw a blank pumpkin on paper, xerox, and let the kids submit different faces. The class votes and the teacher carves the winner's face on the class pumpkin.
Submitted by: Lynn May
38
Predict the weight of the pumpkin. Weigh the pumpkin and see if students/other items in the classroom equal the weight of pumpkin. (ie: how many pumpkins equal the weight of one student?) Discuss more than and less than concepts.
Submitted by: Melody
39
Recycled Pumpkins You get (3) pumpkins each a little smaller in size such as a snowman. Paint them with white paint, stack, and decorate for winter.
Submitted by: Katie Jessee
40
I use a pumpkin to incorporate the letter Uu into Halloween.
(It just doesn't fit in anywhere!) We use a paper pumpkin cut from
construction paper and tear black paper shapes to make an
"Ugly" face. Its not often the kids get to use the word "ugly"
and they love this project. A memorable word and project
really helps them remember the letter Uu.
Submitted by: Brenda Rosenthal
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