Pumpkins Everywhere Project by Elan Ferguson

A classic Fall project is the Pumpkin Face. What I have done to this project is used scrap or damaged white paper. Since we plan to paint it the slight damage does not damage the final piece. The children paint the pumpkin shape orange and then I give them an assortment of different eyes, noses, and mouths to insure diversity amongst all of the pumpkin faces.

Supplies: Glue
Orange Paint
Black and Brown Paper (for stem)
Recycled White Paper

After the children are done painting the white paper, they are given one body part at a time. I place eyes on the table and allow them to pick up two each. This encourages them to count. Next the nose and finally the mouth. The paint can possibly be used like glue and/or you can also use glue. Any Halloween or Harvest book goes well with this project.
I encourage in most, if not all of my projects, that we reuse paper so that large quantities of new paper does not get overly used. Painting over scrap, printed on and/or ripped paper helps conserve and encourage artistic expression.