Pumpkin Play

At our school we really don't talk much about Halloween, but we do talk about pumpkins.  Pumpkins, along with many other fruits and vegetables, are plants God made for us. 

We had a number/numeral matching game where the children had to match the number of pumpkin seeds on one pumpkin to its corresponding pumpkin with the correct numeral.  Notice this Bunny using her finger to touch each seed as she counted.

We had an opportunity for non-standard measuring by seeing how many pumpkins tall each child was.  (To our surprise this was very interesting to the children so we will do it again with something else as our standard in the weeks to come.)

Measuring was a great opportunity for counting and recording each child's height in pumpkins on a chart.

We also baked our own pumpkin muffins. Yum!  They smelled really good and most children were brave enough to try them.  :)