pumpkins

Pumpkins are great because they come in so many shapes, sizes and colors. I bought some colorful unique pumpkins at Stone Creek Nursery (here in Hesston) since we are talking about pumpkins and they were 1/2 off! :)
In order for the children to get a lot of hands on experiences with these pumpkins, I put them on the floor in the middle of the circle. They've touched, picked up, observed and have been really fascinated with them. It's been neat to watch how and what they do with them. These aren't your typical pumpkins, well, one of them is, but the rest are quite unique.

The kids stacked all of them on Ms. Breana's lap

So curious!

Wondering about the names of these unique pumpkins?
The dark reddish one is Cinderella
Tiny orange is pumpkin pie
White flat one is flat white boar
Bluish one is Australian Blue
Multi colored one is One too many
and I bet you can guess the last one, jack 'o lantern 

They noticed that some of them were oozing a watery substance.

Checking out "snowball" pumpkin 

This guy was tapping each pumpkin with the magnifying glass.
Maybe he's trying out some magic.