Pumpkin Craft - Pumpkin Lanterns and Jack-o-lantern Lanterns

Pumpkin Fall or Halloween Fun! Let your kiddos create a pumpkin lantern. The pumpkin lantern is a great alternative Halloween craft. The added bonus is the final result makes a great fall seasonal display and a simple, print and go craft.

This fall craft includes two different lantern patterns. One lantern includes a fall pumpkin. The second pattern includes a jack-o-lantern. Each lantern requires only printing one black and white page.

Click {HERE} to find this resource in my teaching resource store.

Classroom Pumpkin Projects

October and Halloween give us the best opportunity to add a little bit of art to our classes. It's time for the Great Pumpkin Classroom project. Here's a peek at some of our classroom pumpkin projects.

 

I love this classic idea. We happened to be reading the Reading Street 3 selection Top & Bottoms and I'm all about integrating subjects. We used the characters in the book for our pumpkin project. Here's a pumpkin decorated to look like Hare.

 

Here's our science lesson and art lesson combined. This is my Life Cycle of a Pumpkin Craftivity. I'm so proud of how this pumpkin project turned out. I'm going to use this one as a table centerpiece through Thanksgiving.

Here's another pumpkin decorated to look like a black cat. It's fun to create other Halloween themes with pumpkins too. Ask kiddos to turn their pumpkins into bats, cats, spiders, or monsters. I'll let you in on  secret, we're keeping this pumpkin.  (It's plastic.)

I'm linked up at the It's The Great Pumpkin Classroom Project Linky hosted by, yep, me--Sweet Tea Classroom!! Click {Here} to check out my other post and add your pumpkin projects from school or home to the pumpkin linky party.

  

Enjoy!

Robin Sellers @ Sweet Tea Classroom

Pumpkin Art Kids: Kids Pumpkin Painting

It's that time of the year. While the pumpkins fill the fields and even street corners, go ahead and create some pumpkin art for kids to adorn your classroom and homeschool walls. Here's a super sweet and fun pumpkin painting technique for kids for you from Sweet Tea Classroom.

First, draw two lines across the paper. Think of making an X. The lines should intersect, but they can do this anywhere on the paper. The lines can be straight, curvy, or even zigzag lines.

Then draw a shape for the pumpkin on one of the corners. You can have either a landscape or vertical picture, but the pumpkin needs to be in  a corner. Then draw a few curved lines on the pumpkin and add a stem.

 Next, break out the paints. Use only three colors: red, yellow, and black or green. All colors in the pumpkin painting need to be mixed from these colors.

Start painting. Each section of the pumpkin should be a different shade orange and each section formed by the lines should be a different color--white is fine too.

 You then should paint the black or green outlines on the painting. Follow the lines and pumpkin outline from earlier.

Then choose two of the colored sections and create a dark pattern on top of it.  Woo-hoo, you've done it. Enjoy your super sweet and easy pumpkin painting.

If you liked this art project, check out my art project with a science connection {HERE}