I came across a neat idea in my kids school news letter, and I would like to share it with you! It is a pumpkin globe! Here are the instructions:
“Use a pumpkin “globe” to make learning geography fun. With a magic marker, have your child draw the equator and the continents. The North Pole can be the stem. The pumpkin’s natural grooves can be lines of longitude. Ask him to tell you about what he’s drawn on his “globe”.”
I thought this sounded fun and plan to make our own family pumpkin globe 
 I thought I might get creative and crazy and try to cut out the continents or practically do so, so that the light of a candle shines through – but don’t hold me to that. I always dream up stuff bigger than I can accomplish, and the point is for my kids to have fun. Not for me to WOW everybody!! They would have fun with markers and probably not need to cut stuff out…
If you give this a try let me know and send pics!! I will share mine when we have done ours.
Happy Fall everyone! I just LOVE the fall!!! – and pumpkins too!! pumpkin bread, pumpkin muffins, pumpkin lattes, pumpkin pie, pumpkin pie dip….mmmmm!!!!
Hoo Boy – I bet there will be some inventive pumpkins once Da Vowels give it a shot! (And a great way to learn more about geography, too.)
By the way – maybe it’s time for a new family photo up at the top of your blog???