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10 Activities Using Real Pumpkins

October 17, 2015 by OneMommy

kids activities with pumpkins

Fall is the time for pumpkins. People everywhere love to carve pumpkins, or use no carve pumpkin decorating ideas.  Do you have pumpkins?   Wish there was something else to do with them besides just carving or painting them and waiting for them to rot? Here are 10 fun pumpkin activities that use real pumpkins.  […]

Filed Under: Kids Activities Tagged With: fall craft, Halloween, pumpkin

Nail Those Math Facts!

October 12, 2015 by OneMommy

Fun way to practice math facts using pumpkins

  A few days ago I shared with you our hammering nails in pumpkins activity.   As promised, I’ve got an educational twist to the activity to share with you!   We used our pumpkins to have fun working on math facts.       Materials Needed to Nail Those Math Facts: Pumpkin Permanent marker […]

Filed Under: Math Tagged With: making learning fun, math activity, pumpkin

Pumpkin Activity: Hammering Nails in Pumpkins

October 10, 2015 by OneMommy

Hammering nails in pumpkins -- great for eye-hand coordination and proprioceptive input!

We were blessed with an abundance of pumpkins in the garden this year.  With the arrival of fall, we’ve enjoyed doing a variety of activities with real pumpkins — perfect for lots of hands-on learning. So far we’ve had fun making colorful crayon-drip pumpkins and even turned one into a pumpkin volcano. This week we got […]

Filed Under: Kids Activities Tagged With: fall craft, pumpkin, sensory play

Crayon Drip Pumpkins

September 19, 2015 by OneMommy

how to create a crayon drip pumpkin

If you have kids, you probably have crayons. At the start of every school year we start off with a new box of crayons.  Then there are the crayons the kids get at restaurants and the crayons that come with art kits… Pretty soon, if you’re like us, you have a ton of crayons taking […]

Filed Under: Kids Crafts Tagged With: Halloween craft, pumpkin, recycled craft

Do Pumpkins Sink or Float?

September 8, 2015 by OneMommy

Do pumpkins float?

Will it sink or float? That is a question kids love to experiment with to answer, whether it’s toy blocks, boats, or just odds and ends from around the house, kids everywhere enjoy putting things in water to see what will happen.   This week we decided to answer the question:  Will a pumpkin sink or […]

Filed Under: Science Tagged With: fall, pumpkin, science experiment

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