After we brought our Nestor Pumpkin Patch pumpkins home, Mrs. B. brought in 6 more pumpkins for “Pumpkin Math”.  We measured and compared our pumpkins with our own bodies!  Did you know that some of us have heads with the same circumference as our pumpkins???  Some of our pumpkins had 24 ribs, just like we do!!!

Then we got down to the goopy business of scooping out our pumpkins and counting the seeds.  We used egg cartons which had been cut into 10 frames, to make the counting easier.  That pumpkin pulp sure is mucky stuff!  After we were done counting, we used our “making 10’s” strategies to figure out that we had collected 3,241 seeds all together!  Wow!

Naturally, the last part of the job was make the pumpkins into JACK O’LANTERNS!  They were SPOOK-TACULAR when we turned out the lights!

The next week we did ‘Taste ‘n Tell’ activities with pumpkins.  We baked the pumpkin seeds we had scooped with some oil and salt.  Oops… a little too much salt!  We also baked slices of pumpkin with butter and brown sugar.  Yum!

What a lot of ways to explore a local food, PUMPKINS!