Beaded pumpkin

As part of our non-carve pumpkin fun we decided to use beads. For this we used the small pumpkin.

I placed double sided sticky tape on the pumpkin and left Dylan to stick the beads on.

This was a totally fun activity although it can be used for colour and numeracy learning at a late date.

How?

I can ask him to count the beads , add and subtract.

I could ask him to match the colour sequence with beads on a piece of paper or simply using crayons/felts.

I could also use it as a threading activity but these beads are too small for Dylan's tiny hands.

I could ask him to rearrange the beads in a certain sequence ie the rainbow.

Again another quick and easy activity but supervision is required as the beads are a chocking hazard.

Dylan 2.11