Pumpkins Story Time -- October 18-19, 2021

Outdoor Story Times are held weekly on Monday and Tuesday mornings at 10:00 am.  (Registration is required to attend.)  Online Story Times will be posted weekly on Tuesday mornings.  (The video is available to watch for one week before a new one is uploaded.)

Click HERE for this week's Story Time video.

Plumply, Dumply Pumpkin by Mary Serfozo
Pumpkin Trouble by Jan Thomas

Books: 

10 Spooky Pumpkins by Gris Grimly

Five Little Pumpkins by Iris Van Rynbach

Froggy Picks a Pumpkin by Jonathan London
Mr. Pumpkin's Tea Party by Erin Barker

Pick a Pumpkin by Patricia Toht

The Pumpkin Fair by Eve Bunting

Sixteen Runaway Pumpkins by Dianne Ochiltree

Ten Orange Pumpkins by Stephen Savage

Craft: Happy Pumpkin
- Print out template onto heavy paper or cardstock and cut out pieces

- Color ovals different pumpkin colors

- Glue ovals together to make pumpkin shape.  (Largest oval in the middle with mid-sized ovals on either side and smallest ovals on the ends.)

- Glue on eyes and draw on smile

- Color and glue on short rectangle stem and leaf to top of pumpkin

- Color long rectangle as vine.  Then curl and glue to top by stem and leaf.

Extension Activities:

- Visit a pumpkin patch.  Select a pumpkin to take home and decorate.

- Roast some pumpkins seeds using a little olive oil and various spices (Visit https://wholefully.com/roasted-pumpkin-seeds-six-ways/ for directions and spice recipes).

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