Happy Slow Colorful Mosaic Pumpkins For Kids

This calendar week is Pumpkin Week! I convey in addition to thus many favorite pumpkin books in addition to pumpkin crafts in addition to activities that I almost didn't intend I would move able to seat together some other one!

For our Virtual Book Club for Kids featured majority this calendar week nosotros are reading 5 Little Pumpkins past times Dan Yaccarino. We bought some paper mosaic squares at the arts and crafts shop late in addition to idea they would brand gorgeous colorful mosaic pumpkins!  

MATERIALS NEEDED TO MAKE MOSAIC PUMPKINS:

• paper mosaic squares (or simply cutting upwards paper)
• pumpkin template
• white in addition to dark cardstock
• white glue
• scissors

HOW TO MAKE MOSAIC PUMPKINS

These mosaic pumpkins are in addition to thus EASY peasy that they are the perfect pumpkin arts and crafts for kids (and adults) of all ages. They await beautiful in addition to tin sack move made inwards in addition to thus many ways! I joined my kiddos in addition to made my ain because it was in addition to thus simple. I also similar to brand my ain arts and crafts sometimes when I am worried that I powerfulness effort in addition to "help" my kids brand theirs await how I desire it to look. What I loved nearly this projection was that nosotros could sit down roughly creating together in addition to talking nearly colors in addition to nosotros could all practise at our ain levels.

My 3-year-old did NOT desire to encompass his entire pumpkin inwards colors land my 5-year-old wanted to encompass her pumpkin inwards dissimilar shades of colors. I wanted mine to move crazy in addition to convey pops of color all over.

Here's how nosotros made these. It was in addition to thus easy.

** If yous desire to brand this harder AND plough it into a to a greater extent than complex fine motor skills focused craft, convey your kids cutting out their ain squares first, earlier they start creating!

To instruct started amongst our mosaic pumpkins I drew a pumpkin cast on a slice of white cardstock.

Next nosotros covered the pumpkin amongst white glue. 

Finally, nosotros started sticking on the mosaic squares!

Once the mosaic squares were all stuck to the pumpkin in addition to dried, nosotros cutting out pumpkin in addition to voila! We had adorable mosaic pumpkins to display!

We ended our creating fourth dimension past times adding jack-o-lantern faces to the pumpkins. Our faces weren't besides master in addition to thus nosotros are going to add together a few to a greater extent than pumpkins to our collection after this calendar week in addition to jazz them upwards a bit. If yous brand one, I desire to meet yours!!

All calendar week long nosotros are going to move reading pumpkin books in addition to doing pumpkin activities! Scroll downward for a few of our favorite pumpkin books!

Our Weekly Virtual Book Club for Kids co-hosts convey seat together some fun activities for this week. Check them out below. Click on the links to become to the amount tutorials. Come portion photos in addition to what yous practise this calendar week inwards our facebook group.

MORE PUMPKIN THEMED ACTIVITIES

Alphabet Activities

Pumpkin Rocks Alphabet Matching - Inspiration Laboratories


Name Activities

Pumpkin Patch Name Spelling Activity - Still Playing School


Number Activities

Pumpkin Sensory Play amongst Water- The Educators' Spin On It


Cooking Activities

Roasting Pumpkin Seeds With Kids: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Five Senses Experience - To move a Kid Again
Kid-Made Pumpkin Spice Cookies - Sugar, Spice & Glitter
Science Activities

Do Pumpkins Float? JDaniel4's Mom

Preschool Pumpkin Skin Experiment - Preschool Powol Packets


Color Activities

Easy Colorful Mosaic Pumpkins for Kids- Toddler Approved


Pre-Writing Activities

5 Little Pumpkins Fine Motor Busy Bag - Views From a Step Stool

5 Little Fingerpuppets for Storytelling Fun—Chickadee LIt

Free Printable Pumpkin Shape Puzzles- School fourth dimension Snippets

PUMPKIN THEMED BOOKS TO CHECK OUT

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Featured Book: 

5 Little Pumpkins past times Dan Yaccarino 

Additional Books: 

The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything past times Linda D. Williams
The Littlest Pumpkin past times R.A. Herman
Where Is Baby's Pumpkin past times Karen Katz
Plumply, Dumply Pumpkin, past times Mary Serfozo
Splat the Cat in addition to the Pumpkin Picking Plan past times Catherine Hapka
Too Many Pumpkins past times Linda White
The Biggest Pumpkin Ever past times Steven Kroll
It's Pumpkin Time past times Zoe Hall
Duck in addition to Goose Find a Pumpkin past times Tad Hills
Pumpkin Soup past times Helen Cooper

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