Rebecca shifts her thinking to use the pumpkins and pumpkin recipes to spread joy through her community. Until…the pumpkin seeds sprout up and pumpkins take over her garden. So when a pumpkin falls off a truck near her yard, she shovels dirt over it and forgets it. Rebecca loves to garden but she hates pumpkins because as a child she ate them all the time.
Too Many Pumpkins by Linda White, illustrated by Megan Lloyd A great story about plants, life cycles, and seasons. There, Tim watches Jack decompose and notices that in the spring, pumpkins grow in that same spot. After Halloween, he takes his slowly rotting pumpkin to the garden. Tim loves his pumpkin so much that he names it Jack. I love the messages of friendship and cooperation! Luckily, the three resolve their differences, learn to compromise and support each other, and still enjoy their pumpkin soup at the end. The friends fight and Duck storms off very mad. Until Duck wants to stir instead of adding in the salt. Three good friends Cat, Squirrel, and Duck always make pumpkin soup the same way, doing the same thing. Have you heard about pumpkin festivals where the biggest pumpkins win awards? What else could you do with your enormous pumpkins? The author imagines if there were giant pumpkins all over the United States - as big as the Grand Canyon or at a balloon festival in New Mexico or carved and used as a boat in a race! Playful fun! How Big Could Your Pumpkin Grow? by Wendell Minor Mouse paints 7 pumpkins with different kinds of faces - silly, scary, friendly, and sad. Learn about feelings in this simple board book. It’s Pumpkin Day, Mouse! By Laura Numeroff Seed, Sprout, Pumpkin, Pie by Jill EsbaumĬolorful photographs and well-written text explain the life-cycle of a pumpkin from seed to root to vines and pollination, all the way to harvest. An apple is round, but not large like a pumpkin.” A good book to read aloud for fall harvest season. For example, “ A pumpkin is large and round. As she searches the farm, we learn about the features of pumpkins with our own search and find and compare and contrast. Learn about pumpkins with Amara who needs to harvest pumpkins. On a glorious fall day, a little girl picks apples and looks for the perfect pumpkin.Īmara’s Farm by JaNay Brown-Wood, illustrated by Samara Hardy Happy reading! Seasonal Themed Pumpkin BooksĪpples and Pumpkins by Anne Rockwell, illustrated by Lizzy Rockwell The second lists Halloween-themed pumpkin books. The first section lists seasonal-themed pumpkin books. The options are endless.One of the best vegetables in autumn is the PUMPKIN! Here are 14 pumpkin books to read to your kids and students all about pumpkins. You could also use a twig for the stem and add ribbon or burlap. However, you could definitely add some color to it with an orange ink pad or some acrylic paint. I knew I wanted my table to be a little more monochromatic with just a little pop of green here and there so I opted to leave my book pumpkin the way it was. Here is a close up shot of one of the pumpkins from my fall tablescape:
Gotta love my coffee cup sitting amongst the chaos. So… my living room may have looked like this for a little bit, but hey I’ve admitted that I can be a messy crafter!ĭon’t worry though, it’s been cleaned up. I made 4 of these cuties in a couple hours and was sorta in a rush when I made them because I had to head over to my sisters for some B-day celebrations, and to put together my fall tablescape.
Step 12:Įnjoy your freakin’ adorable paper book pumpkin! Step 11:Ĭontinue fluffing until you have gone around the entire book and achieve the look you want. In the photo of step 10 you can see that I started fluffing up a couple sections.
I went through each page and crinkled it just a tad to help keep it separated from the other pages. Step 10:ĭon’t freak out when you place your pumpkin down on the table and it looks all awkward, it just needs some fluffing. Then close the 2 halves together to make the pumpkin shape as seen in step 10. Some people are upset that I used books for this project. Let me start this off by saying the books used for this project were on their way to be tossed into the dumpster, so I asked if I could take them instead.
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