Our Pumpkin Patch of Fall Family Fun
This post was written in 2016, when Moonflower was 5 years-old.
Boy did we have a busy and fantastic Fall season. That’s what it is like when they’re little and they just love everything and want to go everywhere. Being outside, ‘out and about’ is so magical to little kids. Even when you stay home, when they’re little, you can still create some enchanting times with just the simplest of items, and no prep time.
A Pumpkin Patch Full of 14 Fall Fun Ideas
Alrighty so here you are; Enjoy these 14 pumpkin activity ideas. I don’t know how we did all of this in one Fall season, lol, it was great though!
1)Create special pumpkin artwork using your little one’s photo. [Note: I need to find the photo]
Digital Scrapbooking
I created this digital scrapbooking page when she was a baby. This was in 2011. It actually took a lot of skill to create pages like this. Canva and other programs have made the process so incomparably easy, that I can’t even explain how much more difficult it used to be just to create one scrapbooking page! For one, there were no large banks of graphics. You had to know where to find graphics and download them. Usually these graphics came in some type of scrapbooking sets.
Okay, so enough about the ancient times. It’s both amazing and astounding how fast the tech world progresses. So basically, by today’s standards it’s very easy to take your child’s photo, add some graphics and text. People do this on their cell phones these days. I work much much better on my desktop than on a phone.
It’s all about your preference.
2)Pick Out the Perfect Pumpkin
Photo below: Boy, these are some rough looking pumpkins aren’t they? LOL! Moonflower and I went to pick out pumpkins, and this is what some of them looked like. I promise, they were so much cuter in person, lol! There’s Moonflower’s hand touching the pumpkins. She picked out an orange pumpkin; however, it’s always fun to let kids explore and touch pumpkins of different colors, sizes and shapes.
3) Display Your Child’s Pumpkin-Themed or Pumpkin-Colored Art Work
[Note: I need to find the photo]
4) Have a Pumpkin & Blueberry Backyard Day
Moonflower had been asking for cupcakes, but we just were not easily able to get around to buying her favorite kind of cupcakes, which are from a private bakery and not the stores. She’s pretty picky! Since I already had some Blueberry Muffin Mix & I had been waiting for the weather to cool off so that we could sit in the backyard & enjoy the outdoors; I decided to just put everything together and give it a cute name. 🙂
So we headed to the backyard with:
🧡 balloons (that I already had for my birthday),
🧡 flowers (that were already sitting in the house),
🧡blankets,
🧡 dolls,
🧡 pumpkins
🧡and the muffins!
5. Bake Pumpkin Goods & Try Other Pumpkin Treats
We baked cupcakes! And Megan super-loves candy corn.
Update: At the time she loved candy corn. These days (as of 2022), she doesn’t remember ever liking it at all, lol.
6) Visit a Pumpkin Patch &
7)Learn about the educational aspects of pumpkins.
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[…] This is part 2 of our list of 14 Pumpkin Activity Ideas that we enjoyed when Moonflower was really little; from pumpkin patches, to pumpkin movies, pumpkin decorating and fall festival fun. For Part 1 of these pumpkin activity ideas: Virtual Pumpkin Patch is located here. […]