Cute Pumpkin Seeds Craft

After our fun Pumpkin Investigation the other day, we decided to use some of the seeds for a fun craft!

First we dyed the seeds by putting some in a plastic bag and adding a small splash of vinegar and food coloring! We made green, orange, and brown (red, green, and yellow food coloring). The kids had fun squishing the seeds inside the bags to coat them.

 

Next we laid them out on paper towels to dry. It took several hours, so we ended up finishing the craft the next day.

 

 

I printed out a pumpkin outline I found online, and had the kids cut it out and glue it on their choice of colored paper. Then we just glued the seeds on to make the pumpkin!

Pumpkin Investigation



We had so much fun with our pumpkin investigation today! Each of the kids got their own small pumpkin to investigate. First we talked about words that describe the outside of the pumpkin and the kids drew a picture on their investigation sheets.

 

The kids made predictions about their pumpkins and wrote them down.

 

Next, we did some investigations to find out the facts!

Finding weight by measuring the kids with the pumpkin and without! Great way to incorporate more math :)

Counting seeds by making groups of 10

 

We wrote the findings on the second investigation worksheet.

You can grab these worksheets for free HERE.

 

The cleaning out and counting seeds took awhile since I had to help them all with it, so if this is an activity you want to do with a classroom of students, I would suggest doing it in groups with parent volunteers!

 

 Tomorrow we are planning on painting pumpkins and making a craft with all of our pumpkin seeds!

Freebie Friday - Pumpkins!



I have seriously been looking forward to this post for a long time!! I love fall and everything pumpkin, so I was excited to find these great pumpkin freebies! I just couldn't wait until tomorrow, so I guess it's Freebie Thursday this week :-)

 

All About Pumpkins - Sample Pack

 



Pumpkins Count & Color Emergent Reader

 

 

Pumpkin Hundreds Chart Mystery Picture 



Pumpkins Mini-Unit By: Mrs. Ricca's Kindergarten

 

My Pumpkin Seed By: The Daily Alphabet

 

Pumpkin Roll, Color, & Color By: Young & Lively Kindergarten

 

Pumpkin Nonsense Words By: Patty Rutenbar

 

Pumpkin Patch Closest to 100 Math Game By: The Coach's Corner

 

Sequencing With Pumpkin Life Cycle War Game By: Life Over C's

 

Pumpkin Addition Sort By: Creativity to the Core

 

Rainbow Pumpkins Clip Art By: Krista Wallden

*Disclaimer: All the products are free at the time of this post. Sometimes authors change the price of items. I'm sorry if any of these are no longer free or available.