Graphic Garden

*Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden* *George Levenson*	*The Biggest Pumpkin Ever* *Steven Kroll*
*It's Pumpkin Time* *Zoe Hall*	*The Pumpkin Patch* *Elizabeth King*
*Pumpkin, Pumpkin* *Jeanne Titherington*	*Too Many Pumpkins* *Linda Lewis*
*The Legend of Spooky the Square Pumpkin* *Joe Troiano*	*Jeb Scarecrow's Pumpkin Patch* *Jana Dillon*
*Scarecrow* *Cynthia Rylant*	*Scarecrows* *Lola M. Schaefer*
*Lonely Scarecrow* *Tim Preston*	*The Little Scarecrow Boy* *Margaret Wise Brown*
*Scarecrow's Hat* *Ken Brown*	*Little Bear Makes a Scarecrow* *Else Minaret*

Five little pumpkins sitting on a gate
The first one said, "Oh, my! Its getting late!"
The second one said, "There are witches in the air!"
The third one said, "But we don't care!"
The fourth one said, "Let's run, let's run!"
The fifth one said, "Its only Halloween fun."
Then woooooo went the wind, and out went the light,
And five little pumpkins rolled out of sight.

Mr. Pumpkin, Mr. Pumpkin,
Eyes so round, eyes so round
Halloween is coming, Halloween is coming
To my town, to my town.

I'm a little pumpkin, orange and round
Here is my stem and there is the ground
When I get all cut up, don't you shout
Just open me up and scoop me out!

A pumpkin seed's a little thing.
When it's planted in the spring
But, oh, the fun it can bring.
At Halloween it turns into
A pumpkin pie for me and you
Or jack-o-lantern that says...
BOO!

I looked out my window and What did I find?
Green leaves a-growing on my pumpkin vine. (2X)

Gree-een leaves, green leaves a growing (2X)
Gree-een leaves a growing on my pumpkin vine.

     ...yellow flowers growing
     ...black bugs crawling
     ...pumpkins growing

     You can add silly things that the children come up with like.........
     ...apples growing
     ...watermelons growing
     ...etc!

     It’s raining big,
     It’s raining small,
     It’s raining autumn leaves
     In fall.

     It’s raining gold
     And red and brown
     As autumn leaves
     Come raining down.

     It’s raining everywhere
     I look.
     It’s raining bookmarks
     On my book!

     Back into your garden-beds!
     Here come the holidays!
     And woe to the golden pumpkin-heads
     Attracting too much praise.

     Hide behind the hoe, the plow,
     Cling fast to the vine!
     Those who come to praise you now
     Will soon sit down to dine.

     Keep your lovely heads, my dears,
     If you know what I mean…
     Unless you want to be in pie,
     Stay hidden or stay green!!

     One day I found two pumpkin seeds.
     I planted one and pulled the weeds.
     It sprouted roots and a big, long vine.
     A pumpkin grew; I called it mine.
     The pumpkin was quite round and fat.
     (I really am quite proud of that.)
     But there is something I'll admit
     That has me worried just a bit.
     I ate the other seed, you see.
     Now will it grow inside of me?
     (I'm so relieved since I have found
     That pumpkins only grow in the ground!)

     When you see me in the fields,
     My orange glowing in the sun,
     It's time to say goodbye to summer
     and hello to autumn fun!!

     We are pumpkins, big and round,
     Big and round, big and round.
     We are pumpkins, big and round,
     Seated on the ground.

     We are string beans green and fine.....growing on a vine.
     We are onions round and white....we make soup taste right.
     We are carrots, orange and long...help us sing the song.
     We are cabbage green or red....see our funny head.
     We are corn stalks tall and straight...don't we just taste great!

     Mr. Pumpkin,
     Mr. Pumpkin,
     Round and fat.
     Round and fat.
     Harvest time is coming.
     Harvest time is coming.
     Yum, yum, yum.
     That is that!

     Pumpkin, Pumpkin,
     Sitting on the wall.
     Pumpkin, Pumpkin,
     Tip and fall.
     pumpkin, Pumpkin,
     Rolling down the street.
     Pumpkin, Pumpkin,
     Good to eat!!

     When all the cows were sleeping
    And the sun had gone to bed,
     Up jumped the pumpkin,
     And this is what he said:

     I'm a dingle dangle pumpkin
     With a flippy floppy hat.
     I can shake my stem like this,
     And shake my vine like that.

     When all the hens were roosting
     And the moon behind a cloud,
     Up jumped the pumpkin
     And shouted very loud:

     Have you ever seen a pumpkin, a pumpkin, a pumpkin,
     Have you ever seen a pumpkin, that grows on a vine?
     A round one, a tall one, a bumpy one, a squashed one.
     Have you ever seen a pumpkin, that grows on a vine?
     (You can add your own adjectives to describe it)

Three Little Pumpkins
One little, two little, three little pumpkins
Sitting on the fence like country bumpkins
They jumped off and bumped their rumpkins
One October night.

Pumpkin Seed Counting
On a file folder create a pumpkin seed counting game. Trace/draw ten pumpkin shapes on the inside of the file folder. Write the numbers one through ten in them (one number in each pumpkin). Collect 55 pumpkin seeds, wash and dry them. Let the children place the correct number of seeds in each pumpkin shape.

Pumpkin Weights & Measures
Have several pumpkins for the children to measure and weight. Ask them to predict how much the pumpkins will weigh. Record their predictions and find out who made the closest guess. Ask them to predict how many seed the pumpkins will have, record this also. After weighing and measuring them cut them open and clean them out, count the seeds? Did they under estimate? Over estimate? *Make a chart to record the observations and findings!

Pumpkin Circumference
Bring a pumpkin into the classroom and provide students with yarn. ask them to guess how much yarn it will take to measure around the pumpkin. Cut the piece of yarn. After all students have guessed, actually measure the pumpkin. Then compare each student's piece of yarn. Make a chart: Shorter/About the Same/ Longer. Tape each piece of yarn to the chart. Use the chart to ask lots of questions, fro example, How many were shorter? How many were about the same?....

Pumpkin Faces
Materials
Orange finger paint
large pumpkin shape drawn on white finger paint paper
black squirt bottle paint
glue
scissors
Directions:
Have kids paint orange finger paint all over in the pumpkin shape

Pumpkin Paper Plates
Materials
Large paper plates
long orange tissue paper scraps
Green leaf shapes
brown construction paper stem.
Directions:
Let children glue tissue paper scraps to the paper plate, demonstrate to them how the tissue paper can be glued on overlapping each other to create the illusion of the ridges in the pumpkins. Glue on a stem and leaf to finish it off.

Pumpkin Painting
Provide each child with a small pumpkin, and a variety of paint markers or tempera paints. Let them paint and decorate their pumpkin any way they wish.

Pumpkin Paper Bags
Materials Needed
small or large brown paper bags
newspapers
orange paint
black and green construction paper
green chenille sticks
glue
scissors
Directions:
Have kids stuff the bags with newspapers, gather the top of the bag together and twist a green chenille stick around the top of the bag. Let them paint the bag orange, and if you wish have them glue on face pieces you have cut from black paper or they have, then glue a leaf, cut from green construction paper, on to the chenille stick.

Pumpkin shaped sponges and orange paint are great for a pumpkin patch picture.

Carving Pumpkins Have students involved as you carve pumpkin. Look at the seeds, encourage children to feel the pulp and extract the seeds for toasting later.

Pumpkin Weights & Measures:
Have several pumpkins for the children to measure and weight. Ask them to predict how much the pumpkins will weigh. Record their predictions and find out who made the closest guess. Ask them to predict how many seed the pumpkins will have, record this also. After weighing and measuring them cut them open and clean them out, count the seeds? Did they under estimate? Over estimate? *Make a chart to record the observations and findings!

Pumpkin Seeds: Use the seeds from the pumpkins you carve, sprinkle them with salt and bake them in the oven on about 300 until they look browned.