Thursday, October 11, 2012

Paper Plate Pumpkin Craft

The first rain of the season fell early this morning. It seemed like an appropriate day to make an easy fall craft with the kids. They also needed some winding down after a fun morning of autumn initiation activities - puddle jumping and tree shaking.

{Pumpkin Plate Craft}
Paper Plate - Paint brush - Orange Paint - Construction Paper (green, brown, black) - Glue

I didn't have anything planned so I went with an old standby - paper plates. First, I read It's Pumpkin Day, Mouse, in which the mouse paints different faces on his pumpkins. Then I gave the kids a plate, brush and orange paint. While they worked at covering the entire plate orange, I asked them what face they wanted on their pumpkin (just like in the book) - happy, sad, surprised, silly or scary. They cut out the face, along with a stem and leaves. Then they glued the pieces onto their pumpkins. The leaves turned out to look more like unibrows, so you might want to try to glue crinkle paper on instead. 

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Scary, Silly, and Surprised faces.
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Noah loves all of Laura Numeroff's Mouse books.
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As I said, the morning was spent puddle jumping and enjoying the cool air and cloudy sky.

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My niece, Emma, is not afraid of getting dirty.
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Noah, new to puddles, decided puddle slapping was much more entertaining. Whatever works, kid.

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And there was tree shaking. The leaves aren't quite ready to fall. We only had a few takers, but a few was all we needed.

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Welcome, fall. We are so glad you've arrived.
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-Amanda

2 comments:

  1. My kids LOVE LOVE puddles. We have had many this year. And we just had snow!

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  2. Looks like such a fun day! What a great way to welcome in Fall!

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