Pumpkin People

What You Do:

1. Study the miniature pumpkin with your child. What kind of pumpkin person does she want to create? Will her new friend be a laughing girl or a scary boy?
2. Have her use pencil and paper to sketch out what she wants her pumpkin person to look like.
3. Arrange the decorative items on a table beside the pumpkin.
4. Help your child use glue to attach wiggle eyes onto the pumpkin.
5. Encourage her to cut and glue yarn on the top of the pumpkin for hair.
6. Let her use markers, buttons, sequins and more to give more personality to her pumpkin.
7. Once the pumpkin person is finished, brainstorm names with your child. Does the pumpkin look like a Sally or a Harriet? Maybe an Albert or a Fred?
8. Have her write the name of her pumpkin on a small strip of paper.
9. Set the name tag next to the pumpkin.
10. Don't stop there! Keep making more with your child until you have a whole family of pumpkin people. You could even try making pumpkins that look like each member of your family.