Materials
Brown paper lunch bags
Newspaper
Rubber bands
Orange, yellow, and green paint
Paint containers
Paintbrushes
Black markers
Instructions
What to do
1. Give each child a lunch bag
and have him stuff it with
newspaper.
2. Squeeze the top closed, and
wind a rubber band around it.
3. Have the children paint their
pumpkins with orange, yellow,
and green paint.
4. Let the bags dry thoroughly,
and then give the children
black markers to draw jack-olantern
faces on their pumpkins.
More to do
Cooking: Scoop out pumpkin
seeds from a pumpkin, bake them until they are brown, and let the children taste them.
Movement: Have all the children pretend to be pumpkins in a pumpkin patch. Hold hands to
make a vine that connects all the pumpkins.
