This is our first Halloween/pumpkin activity. We have a few others here from last year that M could completely do again this year at 2. We started this activity last week when we painted our paper pumpkin orange. I was going to use orange construction paper but M loves to paint so I thought he'd enjoy that more. I also used a sheet of black craft foam to cut the jack o'lantern pieces. Each piece then had a magnetic strip attached to the back.
We taped the pumpkin to the fridge and stuck the pieces on the fridge next to it. I made a face to start and M caught right on...
M had already done a pretty good job of giving a real pumpkin a face with his Nonni last week so this worked out well. He liked changing the pieces. I ended up making about 4 interchangeable sets of face pieces. I almost didn't put them all out because I could picture them all over the floor but so far that hasn't been a problem. Another benefit- shapes. M knows a few and likes naming them - win win.
