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Pumpkin Patch
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Here is one great  idea to decorate your house! Your own personalized pumpkin patch! It's very simple, but tons of fun. You remember dyeing hard boiled eggs for Easter, why not for the Harvest Festival or Halloween? All you need are hard boilled eggs, some orange food coloring and let your imagination run wild!!

What you need:

• Hard boiled eggs
  (how many depends on how big you'd like your pumpkin patch to be)
• Orange food coloring
  if you need to make the orange from red and yellow coloring it would be a great opportunity to show your child how to create colors.
• Black laundry magic marker
• Piece of cardboard
• Toilet paper rolls or rolls from paper towels
• Green construction paper, green crayoned paper or left over Easter "grass"

What you do:

1. Once you have dyed your eggs orange and they are completely dried, you and your preschooler can draw faces on them . I would recommend drawing the face in pencil first and then trace over it with the black marker. You can include black lines from top to the bottom to look like the natural marks found on a pumpkin. Make your own jack-o' lantern! Then cut a piece of the paper roll so that the egg fits in it. This provides a stand for the egg. The stand can be colored with crayons or decorated with glitter.
2. Attach the Easter grass with glue to the cardboard. If you are not using grass you can make some with green colored/ construction paper. Just let your little one cut strips of paper and again attach with the glue.
3. You can add little fences to the patch or anything you like to make a personalized patch. It makes a great table decoration and your child can really get into it. Have fun!
   Hope you like it!

Comments:

Keeping the craft for year after year
From: Karin L.
I loved the pumpkin patch fall craft idea!
My family and I had so much fun doing it! In fact, I wanted to keep it and use it year after year. Instead of keeping the boiled eggs in place, I washed the eggs, blew out the contents,and dipped/rinsed in alcohol, then rinsed in water. I painted the eggs pumpkin orange and sealed them with a hobby sealant..then we decorated them with felt,pompoms,etc. and hot glued them in place..and decorated the patch etc.... Now, I have a keepsake to use year after year!
Thanks for all the great ideas! I really enjoy your website!
Karin L.

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