Pumpkins Everywhere!

 Since it's the season of pumpkins, we decided to bring pumpkins and pumpkin decorating into the classroom.  We talked about pumpkins in morning meeting (their shape, size, color) and WONDERED if they could roll.  We painted little pumpkins, and rolled bigger pumpkins in paint!  We read about the life cycle of pumpkins and sang our pumpkin songs.  Our "slime" is orange and squishy, and their are pumpkins in the sensory table.  We washed pumpkins, moved pumpkins, and rolled pumpkins. The children all shared their stories of pumpkins, too.  Some pumpkins were eaten by squirrels! 

It's a matter of the classroom imitating life (smiles) .

There were mini pumpkin gourds to wash and paint with paint sticks. 

The slime was a lovely orange color. It caused a lot of exclamations "HEY what happened to the slime?"

We painted with marbles and yellow paint on orange paper, and then the children cut out a circle and added a stem for their own pumpkin. 

We tried rolling things like cylinder and other blocks.....experimenting with rolling....

AND then  it was a beautiful day to roll some pumpkins in paint! 

Until Next Time,

Michele