Craft.......Bumpkin Pumpkin
Joke....How do you mend a broken Jack-o-Lantern?................................ With a pumpkin patch!!!
Color a pumpkin....color this pumpkin from Billy Bear's Halloween site.
Online fun....Send a Cyberpumkin to a friend online!
Pumpkin Game....Cut out pumpkin shapes from orange construction paper and ghost shapes from white construction paper. Then using your checker board - play ghost and pumpkin checkers!
pumpkin carving patters to print
Carving tip....After you have carved your pumpkin wipe Vaseline along the cut edges - this will help preserve your pumpkin.
Craft.......Pumpkin Chain - Take a strip of orange construction paper about 3 inches wide - fold into an accordion about 3 inches square. When all folded cut the shape of a pumpkin leaving the side with the fold NOT cut. When you open you will have a chain of pumpkins.
Craft.......Painted Pumpkins - Have each child paint a pumpkin or pumpkin gourd using Halloween colors. Older children can glue on facial features and hair if they would like. Much safer than carving pumpkins and a lot of fun.
Craft.......Pumpkin Place mats - Have children sponge paint pumpkins cut from sponges (or other Halloween shapes) on place mats or cloth napkins. Makes a nice holiday place settings.
Game.......Pumpkin Bowling - Paint a rubber ball to look like a Jack-o-lantern and use it to bowl 2 liter plastic bottles filled with sand & colored water.
Pumpkin Fact....... - A pumpkin is not a vegetable - it is a fruit!
Carve your own virtual pumpkin!
