Last Sunday we spent a lovely couple of hours

Picking Pumpkins

The sun was shining

It was Daddy’s birthday

We filled our barrow to bursting

With far too many pumpkins

Of all colours, shapes and sizes

So for the next two weeks

We are going to be focusing on pumpkin play

We have started already

Exploring ways for little people

To decorate their pumpkins

Here are 4 No Carve Ways

For little people

To decorate their pumpkins

1. Elastic Bands
The first way we decorated our smallest pumpkins

Was to cover them with coloured elastic bands

Bea found this quite tricky

But the coloured bands

Look very pretty stretched around the pumpkins

2. Push Pins and Bands

With slightly larger pumpkins

We pushed coloured pins into them

And used them as geo boards

Using our coloured elastic bands again

To create pictures and patterns

This was a fun sensory experience

Positioning the pins

Piercing the pumpkin skin

And changing the shapes of the bands

3. Paint and Glitter

After removing all the push pins

We decided to paint our pumpkins

Bea created a Frozen World Pumpkin

Esther a Magical Rainbow Pumpkin

And William a Poison Apple Pumpkin

The process was fun

And the end products are not too bad either

4. Story Stickers

This fourth idea

Is one that we actually did last year

We created a Room on the Broom

Story Pumpkin

Using stickers

This was like a story map

We used it to retell the Julia Donaldson story

And to act out scenes from the book

This is a lovely way to share a seasonal story

In a fun and creative way

We are having such fun with our pumpkins this year

Do watch out this weekend

For more of our pumpkin activities

And some super simple ideas for pumpkin play