Fall Craft Ideas- Acorn Pumpkins

It may be a little hard to carve a real pumpkin during the mentoring hour, but that does not mean you have to skip decorating pumpkins with your child! Try making a patch of mini pumpkins small enough to fit in your child’s hand. Begin by collecting acorns together, if this is possible. Next, remove the caps from a handful of acorns. Coat each one with orange acrylic paint, adding a bit of brown to the acorn’s point for a stem. Let the paints dry, then add a
jack-o-lantern face with a black permanent marker. Connect this activity with a discussion about emotions and then draw different emotions on each small pumpkin…happy pumpkin, mad pumpkin, scared pumpkin, etc. Talk about things that make you and your child happy, mad or scared.
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