Pumpkin Sticker Fun

Activity completed October 6, 2015

This was another simple activity, but a fun one that occupied Tripp for quite awhile. I cut out a jack o'lantern from construction paper and set out stickers for Tripp to decorate it with.

He surprised me by wanting to group all of the stickers of the same type together. He decided to do this entirely on his own as he'd peel off a sticker, place it and look for "more more" on the sticker sheet. After awhile, he started defining each sticker as baby, mommy, and sometimes daddy. He also learned some Halloween vocabulary: witch, pumpkin, and bat.

Shape Pumpkin

Activity completed October 6, 2015.

We made a fun Shape Pumpkin this October!

Supplies
Contact paper or Scotch single-sided laminating sheets (2)
Construction paper or tissue paper cut into shapes - rectangles, squares, circles, triangles, etc.
Painter's tape (optional)

I cut out the shape of a pumpkin from the laminating sheet and pulled the backing off to expose the sticky side. I added a green stem too. Tripp had a lot of fun with the stickiness! I used painter's tape to hold the pumpkin to the table, but it wasn't really necessary.

Then I just let Tripp put the shapes on as he wanted. While he did we talked about each shape and the colors of the construction paper.

When we had used up all of the shapes, I put another laminating sheet over them and cut out the pumpkin shape. Then we had our finished pumpkin!

This would be a really easy activity to adapt to an older child. You could let them cut out the shapes, for example. I think I may repeat it next year and see how his pumpkin evolves!

It would also be easy to do with other shapes, like Christmas trees, ghosts, etc.

I think this would look nice in a window, but Tripp decided that we should add it to what is quickly becoming our Pumpkin (or punkin, as he says it) Wall.

A Painted Jack O'Lantern

Activity completed September 29, 2015.

I found a pair of these thick cardboard jack o'lanterns at Hobby Lobby and picked them up for us to decorate. One I kept as a stencil to trace onto construction paper. The other I let Tripp paint. He wasn't very interested, but he painted a good amount of it.

I put it up on our screen door where I usually put seasonal "Welcome" signs. This really helped him take ownership and pride in the project. Whenever he'd see another pumpkin, he'd talk about the pumpkin outside.