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Fall Fun: Painting Pumpkins

I have this big part of me that wants to be a bit original.  For example, I bought my Mini Cooper before that movie (The Italian Job) came out and made the Mini mainstream.  I loved having a car that not many people knew about.  I’m still a bit frustrated about how I started off feeling original and ended up feeling like a lemming….you know…just following the crowd.

Why I the world am I telling you this…?

Well, I wanted to give J an opportunity to decorate his pumpkin in a new and original way that hasn’t been done over and over again.  Well, my creative juices are just not flowing very well this week and I came up with nothing…nada. 

Then I thought about it….finger painting pumpkins is such a great learning experience for this age.  So, I gave up trying to be original and let J finger paint his pumpkin….and boy am I glad I did!

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Painting the pumpkin soon turned into….

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learning how to open and close the paint containers…

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how to squeeze the paint onto the pumpkin….

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and then how to put the paints back in the box.

How have your children decorated pumpkins this year?

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Filed Under: Play Tagged With: arts and crafts, Invitations to Play, paint, Preschool, Thanksgiving, Toddler

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