My students are in complete awe of pumpkins and their life cycle and it’s all thanks to our “Magic Pumpkin Patch” bulletin board. Each day when the kids enter the room, they experience a new stage in their pumpkin seeds’ development. They love to predict what will pop up when they come to school the next day.
Day 1: We “planted” our pumpkin seeds (taped them to our dirt–scrunched up brown paper). Of course we needed our scarecrows to protect the seeds so they would all flourish. We mimicked our “Magic Pumpkin Patch” with these pumpkin life cycle books. Get A Pumpkin Seed Story here!
Day 2: Our seeds sprouted with green pipe cleaners.
Day 3: Our seeds grew a vine with brown yarn.
Day 4: We made green leaves out of construction paper and leaf tendrils by wrapping strips of paper around a pencil.
Day 5: Yellow tissue paper represented the blossoms.
Day 6: We used green construction paper for the small pumpkins that grew.
Day 7: Yellow construction paper was used for the yellow pumpkins.
Day 8: And finally we mixed red and yellow paint to make our full grown pumpkins!
“Pumpkin, pumpkin,
Big and fat.
Turned into a jack-o-lantern,
Just like that!”
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