Saturday, October 19, 2019

The children design a fall craft

Three-dimensional paper pumpkins:  crumpled paper on the inside, surrounded by orange paper--possibly thickened by folding to form the "ribs" of the pumpkin--with rolled green paper for a stem, and green pipe cleaner tendrils at the base of the stem; all held together by a layer of clear packing tape.

They figured almost all of this out by themselves. I did steer them toward the crumpled paper filling, and away from cotton balls, and I let them into the big box of office and art supplies that is usually off limits; toddlers, pipe cleaners, and electrical outlets could be a bad combination.

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