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Muffin Tin Monday- A Scarecrow’s Harvest

Today’s Muffin Tin Meal was inspired by a picture I took when we visited the pumpkin patch last Monday. I loved the scarecrow in the picture and decided that I needed to try to create one for this week tin.

Scarecrow Harvest Lunch for Kids

To make the scarecrow I cut a corn tortilla into a head and body. The scarecrow received broccoli eyes, whole wheat egg noodle hair, a sliver of tomato mouth and a red pepper speck nose. He is dressed in American cheese and ham. I think he would scarecrows.

Another section of the tin is a corn stalk made of French fries flanked by carrot pumpkins with cranberry stems.

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The final area is layered apple slices. We purchased wonderful Yellow Delicious Apples during our pumpkins patch visit.

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Great Posts I Came Across This Week- October 16

Fun Post
Ostriches Look Funny has a super fun post called Because I Don’t Own a Foghorn. Her neighbors will be so glad she doesn’t own one.
Recipe
Mo’ Betta has renewed my interest in trying to make biscuits. Her recipe for Low-Fat Biscuits would go over big at my house.
Homemaking Related
Frugal with a Flourish has 10 Ways to Use Mason Jars in Your Home. I found all the ideas fascinating.
Child Related

Today’s Fabulous Finds has the cutest ideas for Halloween-related fish she shares in the post-Halloween Fish. Say what?

The Attached Mama has set up the Ultimate Alphabet Craft Collection – Master List. It is a great place to find and share ideas and posts you have had related to the alphabet and crafts.

The Fryman Four has wonderful activities to share in their Pumpkin Life Cycle post. I love the balloon pumpkins.

 
 
 

Read.Explore.Learn- Pumpkins

Welcome to Read. Explore. Learn! This meme was designed to be a place for you to share the learning opportunities, crafts, field trips, and other activities you have done this week that tie-in to children’s books. I look forward to seeing ways you have learned with and explored books.

 

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My Book Tie-In of the Week

Five Little Pumpkins

 

We read Five Little Pumpkins illustrated by Ben Mantle. This wonderful version of the book has light hearted pictures that didn’t scare JDaniel. I love the happy pumpkins and fun characters in the book. It is a padded board board which I have found helps books last. That is really important when it comes to this book. We will be reading it for a long time.

Craft

We painted egg carton cups with orange bingo markers and placed them on a fence. It was fun to use the egg pumpkins to retell the story. The green strips were left over from a Sunday school lesson I taught two weeks ago. They are lick and stick.

 

Experiment

Orange food coloring was created using red and yellow neon food coloring. JDaniel and I mixed the colors using cotton balls. This was fun, but very messy.

Disclaimer: I review books for Tiger Tales. Five Little Pumpkins is a book I was sent to review. The thoughts about the book are my own.