Parents of Tots

CRAFT MATERIALS:

• Cardboard (not plastic) egg cartoncraft scissors
• craft glue; green pipe cleaners
• sheet of green poster board
• orange craft paint
• washable markers.

1.  Carefully cut the cup sections from the egg carton. Depending on the number of pumpkins you wish to have, you may need two egg cartons.

2.  Glue two of the cups together to form a pumpkin shape. Repeat this step until all of the cups have been used.

3.  Once the glue has dried, help your toddler paint the outside of each pumpkin with orange craft paint. Allow the paint to dry.

4.  Once the paint has dried, draw thin vertical stripes on each of the pumpkins. You might also want to add jack-o-lantern faces with the markers.

5.  Glue the pumpkins to the sheet of green poster board.

6.  Carefully poke a hole in the top of each pumpkin with a pencil. Poke a small piece of the green pipe cleaner into each hole to create stems for the pumpkins. You can create vines in the pumpkin patch by curling up more green pipe cleaners and gluing them around the pumpkins.

Note: Activities should always be supervised by a responsible adult.