Secondary Color Fall Pumpkins

Kindergarten artists used their painted paper from last week and created a fall pumpkin picture. I provided various sizes of circle shape tracers for the children to make their pumpkins from. Usually I would let the children draw their own, but this early in the year, the majority of kindergartners have a difficult time drawing large enough. After the artists traced circles, they learned how to use scissors the correct way: thumb in the small hole, 3 fingers in the large. The hand holding the scissors should stay in front of their belly while cutting and not out to the side. Their thumb should stay "up" when cutting-when it does, they are giving themselves a "thumbs up job". If their thumb points down when cutting (if they flip their hand) they are giving themselves a thumbs down and not using scissors the right way.
The majority of children did an excellent job with this! I also had the children stand to cut so the table didn't get in their way and they didn't keep the paper on the table when cutting.
After the circles were cut, children started turning them into pumpkins by adding lines and stems. They also added a nighttime sky and learned a new way to make grass by snipping the top of the paper all the way down the length of it. If the child had their own idea for making their grass, I definitely let them do it their way! :-)