TJ Homeschooling: Pumpkins

Showing posts with label Pumpkins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pumpkins. Show all posts

It's Fall!

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We are eagerly awaiting for cooler temperatures to arrive! It's still in the 100s where we are.

As I've done for a few seasons previously, I'd thought I'd share resources/ideas that we've used or are
thinking about using for the fall season.

Fall Decorations

 We started our Fall Bulletin Board for this year:


I found a great pumpkin pattern here and added white letters to spell out FALL. I found some great fabric leaves at JoAnn's Fabrics to go around our whiteboard.  On the sides we are starting to hang up our artwork/crafts.

This one below was our display area from 2016. We used real leaves for our top decoration. (I went with fabric ones this year (above) as we live in a deserty region and I wasn't sure if we'd be able to find enough fall leaves.)



Fall Learning & Fun for Kids!

Acorns and Leaves - My Cute Graphics

Fall Facts

Fall Crafts

Sweet & Simple Felt Apple Craft

Fall Paper Pumpkins

DIY Falling Leaves Garland

Leaf Suncatchers

Fall Leaf Prints

Candy Corn Footprints

Pony Bead Pumpkins

Yarn Pumpkins

Also check out my Fall Crafts tag for fall crafts we've made in the past.

Fall Family Friendly Recipes



10 Fun Treats for Fall - yum, can't wait to try many of these! They include cookies, cakes, bars with pumpkin, caramel and more!






Check out my Pumpkin Fever Post for Pumpkin recipes!

Fall Clip Art

My Cute Graphics Fall Images (color and black and white)

Fall Fonts & Dingbats

Nature Bats (leafy dingbats)





Language

Math


Science


Social Studies

" Fall is a time of harvest and celebration. Study how cultures celebrate harvests." (Idea from BusyTeacherCafe.com)

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Pumpkin Fever!

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I have to admit, there was a time when I couldn't understand what all the excitement over pumpkin was.
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Fall Crafts: Paper Strip Pumpkin II

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I seem to be drawn to paper strip crafts. They are really very easy though and maybe that's why. This is the second paper strip pumpkin we've done this fall, the first one is here.  

I got the idea for this craft from the Hostess with the Mostess blog.


What you need:


  • Orange construction paper (in addition to it I used Astro Brights orange paper)
  • Scissors
  • Paper clips or staples
  • Green construction paper (for leaves)
  • Brown construction paper (for stem)

What you do

Essentially you just cut the orange paper into strips and attach them with a paper clip or staple. The strips are of different lengths and you match up the ends. Then, add leaves and a stem. At the Hostess with the Mostess blog, she explains the number of strips and lengths so I'll leave that to her.  For my leaves, I used this template below and printed it out on green Astro Brights paper.

You can find this leaf and other leaf templates from my Pinterest Pin here.

I ended up using staples and paper clips to keep my strips together and I punched a hole in the top so that I could hang them up. Other than that, I pretty much followed her simple directions. 


I made three and am making a little banner/mobile with maybe leaves and pine cones to add in, in sha Allah.
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Fall Crafts: Paper Strip Pumpkin

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This easy craft kicked off our fall craftiness. I like it because it uses the similar idea (paper strips) of our Ramadan paper lanterns.

I got the idea from DLTK and used their template for the leaves. I bought green "pipe cleaners"  (or as they were called at Walmart "fuzzy sticks") for the vines.

What you need:
  • Orange construction paper (to be cut up into strips)
  • Scissors
  • Green construction paper for the leaves (or you could print out on green paper or paint the leaves)
  • Fuzzy sticks (for the vines, optional)
  • Paper fasteners (as I grew up calling them, brads)

You can catch the instructions at DLTK but all we (read I) did was cut the orange construction paper into strips (cutting lengthwise) and then punched holes in each end of all the strips and insert a paper fastener at each end. Then, I spread out the strips to form a sphere. I added the leaves and the vines to the top paper fastener (curling the fuzzy sticks with a pencil).

Also, I would take their advisement and cut out more than 12 strips to get a fuller pumpkin. On our first try, we only used 12 and had so much space in between the strips. I cut up more strips so that we had about 23 or so and it was much fuller.

This was our first craft of the evening (yes we started pretty late in the day, the craft bug just hit me) and we went on to make 2 more crafts that evening, the Pom Pom Apple Tree and Button Indian corn. I pretty much made the pumpkin on my own but when the kids saw it they got motivated and we cranked out the other two fun projects.
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