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DLTK's Halloween Crafts for Kids:
Pumpkin Book

Thanks so much to Bethany for sharing this great idea for a pumpkin craft.  If your little ones are a too young to help with carving a real pumpkin then here is a great alternative to keep them involved.

Savannah shared these photos of the finished craft by on of the children in her childcare program.
 
"... there were a few variations on that particular pumpkin, it was an older child's and he opted to use brown construction paper instead of green, and he didn't want a curly Q, Also, instead of yellow yarn we used orange, obviously, and we also did a three hole punch book tied with orange yarn instead of staples."
Thank you Savannah!
  

Materials:

bulletConstruction paper
bulletOrange
bulletGreen
bulletYellow
bulletDried pumpkin seeds (from your real jack-o-lantern)
bulletYellow yarn

Instructions:

bullet Cut two large pumpkins from orange construction paper and staple together on the left side (like a book). 
  
bullet Cut out a green stem and curly Q 
  
bulletCut out yellow eyes, nose and mouth for a jack o lantern face. 
  
bulletThe first day activity is to clean out a pumpkin with the children. They pull out the seeds and let them dry. We also read pumpkin stories etc
  
bulletThe next day I had carved the jack-o lantern (my children were too young to help with that but older children could help).
bulletWe then took out paper pumpkins and on the inside pumpkin we glued the dried pumpkin seeds and orange yarn to show the inside of the pumpkin.
bulletNext step is make the "front" pumpkin a jack o lantern. The children can glue on the face pieces and stem 

  

The children love this one! (my children were ages 1-3)

 

Printable Version of these instructions