We made Paper Plate Pumpkins with Handprint Stems for a fun Halloween craft and to get ready for our trip to the pumpkin patch. It was a new word for Little Sister and she can't get enough of saying it! Both my preschool-aged son and my toddler loved this craft. I also read them a cute pumpkin poem. You can find the cute Halloween Poem here. I told my son that the pumpkins are happy when you take them home because they like to decorate our home like it says in the poem.
Painting their plates orange. Little Sister couldn't resist getting her hands in it too!
Pumpkin craft by our 4 year old
We made green handprints, cut around them, and glued them on for stems. I saw the adorable stem idea from Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers, Oh My! To add our own spin on her already super cute craft, I had the kids use glitter glue pens to decorate their pumpkins with. Big Brother had been begging all day if he could please use them! I love how sparkly they looked when they dried. I also printed funny pumpkin faces for the kids to glue on. Little Sister didn't quite put the nose and mouth in the right place, but she did a great job with the eyes!
Paper plate pumpkin by our toddler.
To go along with their sparkling pumpkins, we read the book Happy Sparkling Halloween (Sparkling Stories). It was suitable for both the ages of my children. The illustrations are fun & shiny and the story rhymes throughout. The end of the book is cute and helped me explain to my 4 year old that they are just costumes (or toys, decorations, etc.) and that aren't actually scary at all- in the book a giant ghoul appears but it turns out to be just the dad... he, he. I love the way the author makes it funny for the kids to find out it's just the dad in an adorable, rhyming way.
. It was suitable for both the ages of my children. The illustrations are fun & shiny and the story rhymes throughout. The end of the book is cute and helped me explain to my 4 year old that they are just costumes (or toys, decorations, etc.) and that aren't actually scary at all- in the book a giant ghoul appears but it turns out to be just the dad... he, he. I love the way the author makes it funny for the kids to find out it's just the dad in an adorable, rhyming way.
6 comments:
Thanks for linking up to the Perfectly Pumpkin Party! Every holiday needs a handprint craft!!!
This is the perfect craft for my toddler and preschooler, thank you for sharing!
Those are 100% cute! :-)
Thanks for sharing on Kids Get Crafty!
Maggy
Thanks for sharing your post on Tuesday Tots! I love how you added a handprint to it! I featured your post this week on In Lieu of Preschool in a round-up of paper plate crafts: http://www.inlieuofpreschool.com/2012/10/Five-Halloween-Paper-Plate-Crafts-on-Tuesday-Tots.html Please feel free to stop by and grab a "featured" button. I'm off to pin your post to the Tuesday Tots Pinterest board now! Thanks again for sharing! :)
Congrats! Your post was one of my top clicked post and it is a featured link in The Mommy Club from last week! You rock!
Stop on in and see your feature. I will pin your post, too!
http://www.crystalandcomp.com/2012/10/the-mommy-club-share-your-resources-and-solutions-67/
Yay! Thanks Crystal & Genny!
Amanda @artsy_momma
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