Five little pumpkins, craft for toddlers

FIVE LITTLE PUMPKINS

Craft for toddlers

All my "kids" were sleeping so I traced a witch from the book "Five little pumpkins" by Dan Yaccarino, cut it out, trace more using the cut out, colored them with markers then cut them all out one by one. Two per kids so 16 witches. I did it in the kitchen and each time a teacher would come in I was saying : "I'm crazy". I know how to get my self in a too big project. Anyway the children enjoyed it and it was a good fine motor activity for me (at my age it is not for development, it is to not let arthritis getting my fingers too stiff and weak 😀).

Some children had a lot of fun playing with the glue stick... that's fine. We made it over a week, adding one element each day. The goal was Art some days, others it was Engagement in Learning by discovering the glue and the purpose of it.

I traced the ghost and the witch from the book. I'm not an artist.

I like how each one is different and how my kids were proudly saying:"I did it".

Happy Halloween!

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