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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:

• Construction paper
  • Orange
  • Green
  • Yellow
• Dried pumpkin seeds (from your real jack-o-lantern)
• Yellow yarn

Instructions:

• Cut two large pumpkins from orange construction paper and staple together on the left side (like a book). 
    
• Cut out a green stem and curly Q 
    
• Cut out yellow eyes, nose and mouth for a jack o lantern face. 
    
• The 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
    
• The next day I had carved the jack-o lantern (my children were too young to help with that but older children could help).
  
• We 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.
  
• Next step is make the "front" pumpkin a jack o lantern. The children can glue on the face pieces and stem