Turn off the lights in your room and light a candle or flashlight in the pumpkin. Discuss pumpkin safety. Students can draw pictures of the layers of a seed and label them. Have students estimate how many seeds the pumpkin has inside. Seeds are divided roughly into groups of 25 and combined into piles of 100 to get an idea.
Students draw pictures or write the steps needed in carving a pumpkin.
Instructional Sequence for kindergarten Talk about the shape of the nose, eyes, and mouth. Discuss whether they want a happy, sad, or scary pumpkin. Retell the carving of the pumpkin through pictures. Decide if pumpkins are really orange by using a variety of oranges and yellows from their crayon box. Put a candle in the pumpkin, turn out the lights and make scary noises.