Five Little Pumpkins

We do some sort of project every year to go along with our 'Five Little Pumpkins' book!  It was story exploring Thursday yesterday.  It's exciting for the kids to see a book that goes along with a fingerplay that they have been learning for some time now.  It is exciting to have a visual! 

This year, we created five little pumpkin puppets.  In years past, we have created different types of puppets, even painted some rocks to be the pumpkins.  

The kids drew faces on their pumpkins.  I LOVE child drawn faces.  The imperfection creates so much character.  This, to me, is perfect.

I stapled a piece of construction paper over to make an envelope for each child.  They stuck the Five Little Pumpkins words onto the front so that parents can help them remember the words at home. 

I brought the kids inside from outside time two at a time to create this project.  A little bit more attention to each child can help them feel special.  They each lined up their pumpkins on the gate.

Smile!

Five little pumpkins, sitting on a gate,

The first one said, "Oh my!  It's getting late!"

The second one said, "There are witches in the air.."

The third one said, "We don't care!"

The fourth one said, "Let's run and run and run!"

The fifth one said, "I'm ready for some fun!"

Then ooooooOooooOoooo went the wind, and OUT(Clap) went the lights,

and the five little pumpkins roooolled out of sight. 

♥

Happy Friday!  The rain is here today, it smells wonderful and we have a fire going in the wood stove.