We have been taking fall and trying to use it to the fullest for learning, crafting and fun around here. I decided to take some extra pumpkin seeds and a few pumpkins and turn it into a couple of activities to keep the girls busy recently. In the process I also got to draw silly pumpkins with my favorite writing utensil. A sharpie. It’s the little things that keep me happy.

Pumpkin Seed Counting Supplies:

• Paper
• Marker
• Crayons
• Glue
• Pumpkin Seeds leftover from pumpkin carving, pie making or snacking.

To start off our activity we took a detour and first counted tiny pumpkins and read the book Five Silly Pumpkins. The girls took turns counting the pumpkin, rearranging the pumpkins and sorting the pumpkins. Doing this was a quick way to fill up more time with our activity and expand on the pumpkin theme and counting.

Step one: Draw pumpkins on a sheet of paper and number them.The number of pumpkins you do is up to you. We did six because I felt six pumpkins worked for out size paper.

Step Two: Count and color the pumpkins in.

Step three: Count out pumpkin seeds for each pumpkin. The first pumpkin gets one seed, the second gets two, the third gets three, and so on.

Step four: Glue the seeds down onto the pumpkins. We started out using glue sticks and quickly figured out that liquid glue did a much better job of holding the pumpkin seeds down.

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About the Author: Catherine

Catherine, The Evolving Mommy, is the mom behind the Evolving Motherhood. As the mom to two young girls, Catherine spends a good deal of her time feeding her family, cleaning up after feeding her family and planning the next meal she will feed her family. When she isn't feeding people, cleaning, running errands or volunteering in her daughter's school, she enjoys running, reading, writing, and cooking for fun. Motherhood is a jungle so we have to keep evolving and learning from the everyday.