Paper Pumpkin Math

How we did it:
Materials List
- construction paper (1 large sheet of black paper, several sheets of orange)
- post-it notes
- crayons
- scissors
- paper
- ruler
- pencil
-
I made a pumpkin template (seen in white here) and assembled all of our supplies.
-
My son traced the pumpkin template. Make as many pumpkins as you need, depending on the equations you will be working on.
-
Next, he cut out the paper pumpkins. I helped with this step so that we could move on to our actual math problems.
-
Next, we used a ruler to draw two large boxes on our black paper with our white crayon.
-
I used a pad of sticky notes to write equations, one per page.
-
He started with the first equation, putting the correct number of pumpkins in each box to match the equation on the sticky note.
-
Then he wrote the correct answer on the sticky note.
-
When he was done, we checked his answers to each equation. We concluded that pumpkins plus squares plus equations on notes equals a fun way to do math. Happy Halloween!