Pumpkins are part of our fall activities but with Halloween approaching we’ve started learning about carving pumpkins and creating Jack-O-Lanterns. We’ll be hitting up the pumpkin patch soon so we can use real pumpkins but until then we’ve been having fun making our own pumpkins with different materials.
Today we used potatoes! Our garden yielded an excessive amount of potatoes this year and I’ve literally been trying to think of any activity (and recipe) that can use some of our stockpile.
We were going to just do plain potato prints and then use paint to make faces on them when they were done, similar to these, but as I was cutting them in half I realized I could just cut faces in the bottom and we’d have Jack-O-Lanterns stamps! I used a knife to cut “faces” into the surface of the potato we would be using to create the prints. Easy!
My “faces” are a bit rough and not as finished as my OCD prefers but I had a table full of eager toddlers ready to paint so I had to make it fast and let them get stamping! 🙂
We’ve also be learning about color mixing so I gave them red and yellow to mix.
