So, this one kind of stumped me. I had never seen blue pumpkins before, until I stumbled upon these in a local market. (Maybe I have been living a sheltered life.) Are blue pumpkins new or have they been around for a while? How do you grow a blue pumpkin? What other color pumpkins can you find?
Where do pumpkins grow best? What part of the pumpkin do we eat? What can the seeds be used for?
Create a display about different kinds of pumpkins. Bake a pumpkin pie. Predict how many seeds are inside a pumpkin. Bake the pumpkin seeds. Create pumpkin art with the seeds. Bake something using the inside of an actual pumpkin (not canned pumpkin).
How did the Jack-O-Lantern tradition start? What is the history of Halloween? How did the tradition of eating pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving in America start? What are Fall Holiday traditions in other countries?
And…upon researching blue pumpkins I stumbled across information about these pumpkins. Blue pumpkins are being used to symbolize at least two really thoughtful things for Halloween Trick-or-Treaters. I am not sure if this is just in America, or in other countries as well that celebrate Halloween.
Lots of authentic questions, lots of starting points for authentic projects.
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