We have been looking closely at the pumpkins in our classroom at our exploring table and we've been reading about pumpkins too. We enjoyed the book, Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden, by George Levenson. We also read some great books on colour including, Full Colour, by Etienne Delessert. Using only primary colours (red, blue and yellow) the kids made magic happen right on their pages. After sketching pumpkins and leaves, they mixed red and yellow to make orange for the pumpkins and yellow and blue to make shades of green for leaves. Once dry, they were cut out and assembled on black paper.
The kids used chalk pastels, in white and yellow, to add moonlight and stars to their nighttime pumpkins. Strips of green paper and curled ribbon were added to embellish the green vines. Didn't we create a beautiful pumpkin patch? Love how they're all different!
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