Monday, October 5, 2009

Baby pumpkin craft~Day 5!

This is yet again, such a simple simple activity. But it involves glue, yarn, baby pumpkins and googly eyes. For some reason kids seem to love it. In fact, my son made one last year and he played with it until I threw it away.

Materials needed:

  • Any size pumpkin. This time we used a small one, but we will be doing the same with some of our medium size pumpkins until we carve them. 
  • Yarn cut into smaller pieces, can be one color or different colors, it is your choice
  • Tacky or Elmer's glue
  • Googly eyes
  • Piece of felt or construction paper cut into a triangle
  • Markers

Very simple. Put some glue on the top of the pumpkin and let your kid put the yarn on for hair.
Put glue dots where the eyes and nose should go, and place them accordingly
Give them a marker and let them draw ears or whatever else they want.
My son thinks he is the master of the glue, so I let him him help. We have some funny pumpkins around this house. In fact, we have half a crazy pumpkin family. When we have the whole family I will post a new picture. But here is his favorite. This one is "him"




 And of course we need a little ditty to sing while we make our pumpkins.

PUMPKIN TIME
(to the tune of three blind mice)
Pumpkin time is here again,
Time to play trick or Treat.
Pumpkin time is here again,
Our Spooky friends we'll meet.

See the costumes we have on,
Monsters, ghosts, goblins too.
See the costumes we have on,
Hear us all shout "BOO!"


 Note: This one is a song my son learned in his little class, it isn't one I made up. Believe me, I will take credit when it is!

7 of you are the "cool kids":

Karen@StrictlySimpleStyle said...

Hi I'm visiting from SITS. Glad I found you.

I just did a super easy pumpkin post today too.

tinahead81 said...

oh my goodness...so doing this with david tomorrow!!

Lisa Anne said...

I love it!! I'm totally felting my pumpkins this.

Oh come grab the new button I created, not the craft swap one my new new one. Unless you want both.

I've totally figured out how to design my own blog.

I just need to figure out how to add links at the top of my blog like you have.

I can't wait to post my new header it looks amazing, but gotta wait till after halloween. Plus who knows how many more times i'll change my blog!

Veronica Lee said...

Cute!! Great idea, Vicki!!

A Mom After God's Own Heart said...

Oh my goodness....so cute....I run a home daycare and this is perfect! I am so going to do this activity with my kids:) thanks for the idea!

:)

blueviolet said...

How darling! It's not too difficult and they can use their own ideas and can make it just like they want!

Alexis AKA MOM said...

Man Ok I need to get over my glue gun burn fear, it was a bad one before ... LOL ;)

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