Pumpkins


To the tune of "Have you ever seen a lassie?"
Have you ever seen a pumpkin, a pumpkin, a pumpkin?
Have you ever seen a pumpkin with no face at all?
With no eyes, and no ears, and no nose, and no mouth?
Have you ever seen a pumpkin with no face at all?
With no cheeks, and no chin, and no teeth, and no forehead?
Have you ever seen a pumpkin with no face at all?

Have you ever seen a jack-o-lantern, jack-o-lantern, jack-o-lantern?
Have you ever seen a jack-o-lantern with a face now?
With eyes and ears, and nose and mouth?
Have you ever seen a jack-o-lantern with a face now? (Make a jack-o-lantern face)





Measure the diameter of several pumpkins.
Weigh several pumpkins.
Ask each child to draw something that weighs more than a pumpkin.
Ask each child to draw something that weighs less than a pumpkin.
Graph the results of your meausurements.
Ask each child to draw how they would like to carve the pumpkin.
Ask the kids to guess how many seeds are inside the pumpkin.
Count the seeds from inside the pumpkin. An easier way to do this is to let the children group the seeds in groups of 10 and then count by 10's.

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Five little pumpkins sitting on a gate.
The first one said "Oh, my, it's getting late."
The second one said "There are witches in the air."
The third one said "But I don't care!"
The fourth one said "Let's run and run and run."
The fifth one said "I'm ready for some fun!"
Woo-ooo! went the wind
And out went the light,
And the five little pumpkins rolled out of sight.


Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater
Had a wife and couldn't keep her.
He put her in a pumpkin shell