Pumpkin Bowl Picture

These pumpkins have handprint leaves - a fantastic Halloween or Thanksgiving project to do at home with your preschooler or in a preschool classroom. It incorporates both sensory and fine motor elements: making hand prints, scrunching up paper bags, and cutting and gluing yarn.

Project Info

Difficulty	Easy
Duration	15-30 minutes
Age	3+
Submitted by	LilRed
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Materials

Blue Card
Brown Paper Lunch Bag
Paint (Orange, Green)
Paper Bowl
White Glue
White Paper
Yellow Yarn

Instructions

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Paint the underside of the bowl orange
Paint one face of the paper bag green
Make small cuts into the rim of the paper bowl, about 0.5" apart, and fold inwards
Cut a small triangle (with approx 2" sides) out of the edge of the bowl.
Fold the paper bag in half and twist, leaving the ends untwisted. Push into the triangle that you cut from the bowl so that the untwisted ends are inside the bowl, secure with tape. See image
Cut a variety of lengths of yellow yarn.
Paint the bottom of the blue card with glue. And sprinkle the yarn pieces over (to form straw on which to place the pumpkin).
Put glue on the folded rim of the pumpkin bowl. Now place in position on the blue card. Place an object on top of the bowl to hold in place until the glue dries.
Finally, make two green hand prints, and cut out. Glue these to the base of the paper bag "stem" of your pumpkin.