Pumpkin Bread
What to Do
Cook this yummy treat with your class. Let the childrenmeasure and stir the
ingredients.- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- ½ tsp ground cloves
- 1 cup fresh or canned pumpkin puree
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup flour
- 2 tsps ground cinnamon
- ½ cup raisins
- 2 1/3 cups Bisquick
- pinch of ground nutmeg
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 9x5-inch loaf pan. Mix all ingredients together with wooden spoon. Pour into prepared pan. Bake for 45 minutes. Test with knife, if the knife comes out clean the bread is done. If it is not done put back in oven for 10 minutes. Cool before removing from pan. Store in plastic bag.
Counting Pumpkin Seeds
Have your children estimate how many seeds are in a pumpkin. Cut the pumpkin
open and count the seeds. Pile the seeds in groups of ten. If your school allows
it cook the pumpkin seeds for a yummy snack.
Halloween Bingo
Make Bingo Cards with various Halloween figurines on them. Then play bingo using
candy corn as markers. Note: all cards need to be different so this takes some
time.
Pumpkins in the Patch
Get several pieces of green paper. Label the paper one through ten. Then cut
out pumpkins. Let your children place the correct number of pumpkins in the
pumpkin patch.
Match the Character
Cut out several different Halloween figures (jack-o'-lantern, witch, ghost,
cat, etc.). Then mix them all up and let your children sort them.