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I loved these pumpkin projects. I like to make a sample of the projects before camp and it’s always fun to see what the kids do with the materials provided. They always find a way of personalizing their work. I’ve seen paper bag pumpkins before. They look like paper sacks stuffed and painted….cute. Our paper bag pumpkins were little works of art!! This was a two day project. Each child started with a pallet of yellow, red, and a little dab of golden color . It was fun seeing the kids mix their colors and create orange!! We talked about how pretty the bright clear spots of red and yellow looked with the blended orange. The kids put the paper bag on one hand and painted with the other. I saw these beautiful (I think they’re beautiful) pumpkins on the website That Artist Woman . We found twigs and real leaves in the yard to complete our project on the second day. The fun thing the kids did was not limiting themselves to one stem or one green pipe cleaner to finish off their pumpkin. Some pumpkins had fist fulls of moss covered sticks attached and a whole range of green fuzzy spiraled tendrils….wonderful!!
More Pumpkins!
Our other pumpkin project was made of yarn….very simple. I found this project at Make and Takes. We changed the yarn from red to orange and changed a little red apple to a little orange pumpkin! The kids wrapped yarn around a piece of cardboard 80 times!!! It was an opportunity to have fun with counting and they ended up with a sweet little pumpkin.
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More Pumpkins!!
We made Pumpkin Cookies a couple weeks ago and I promised to post the recipe. Here’s the 2 cookie recipe we used at camp made with whole wheat flour and honey and another recipe for pumpkin cookies I’ve used for years that make lots of cookies. As you can see by the condition of “The Great Pumpkin” recipe it has been well used. I’ve gone from using the full amount of white sugar to none to finally settling on “about” half the original amount. I don’t usually make these cookies as large as the recipe calls ….too big for little ones. When my kids were little I made these with the stem, no white sugar and outlined with orange buttercream frosting and two little buttercream leaves on top….plenty sweet
