Pumpkin Mini Project

Well, we were down to one computer for the boys for a week...yes, I know they are lucky to have one at all but when you go from two down to one it gets difficult to share the computer time without siblings hanging over your shoulder asking "is it my turn yet?"

So in order to give Daxter some time with his SpongeBob Typing and Clue Finders games, we did a mini project on pumpkins for the two younger boys.



Halo had some printing practice and Ratchet had a word find.


Both boys got to match the jack-o-lantern faces to the expressions. I read the words (happy, sad, angry etc.) to Halo and Ratchet read his on his own.




Each boy had a mini book on the 5 Little Pumpkins and a sequencing book on How A Pumpkin Grows.


Ratchet also had to make 2, 3 and 4 letter words using the words PUMPKIN PATCH.


Both boys did a delicious smelling spice wheel using the spices from a pumpkin pie... yummy!



Both boys also did a colour mixing card using red and yellow to make... orange! I swear, it really is orange, my camera decided not to capture the correct colour.


The activities came from the freebie at Liliput Station.

Thin: unplugged.

This week at Unplug Your Kids the word was THIN.

The boys decided to try and see which "dough" would be the easiest to make a thin roll with, and which "dough" would make the thinnest roll.

We used playdoh, floam and wonder dough.


Daxter started with playdoh, and Ratchet used floam..... Halo tried wonder dough to start and then switched to floam because Ratchet's looked so cool!





Ratchet's floam roll got really long and thin and was really easy to squish into place if it broke.


Daxter rolled the playdoh into a long thin roll and made a necklace!


Halo managed to make a REALLY thin roll all on his own with floam!


Daxter got the thinnest roll of all using the wonder dough.


Ratchet got the longest thin roll using floam.


Halo came up with the idea to make the floam thin by rolling it flat with a roller.



All three boys had a blast making thin things with play dough.