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Pumpkin Candies & Toothpicks! Ages 3+

Age 3+, Age 4+, Age 5+, Age 6+, Engineering, Fall, Fine Motors, Fine/ Gross Motor Skills, Fine/Gross Motor Skills, Science, Seasonal

This is a fun fall Stem activity! All you need is pumpkin candies and toothpicks. What can you build? How many pumpkins did you use? How many toothpicks did you use? What did you build? Can you tell me about it? Trick is not to push toothpicks all the way through the pumpkin candies.

Materials (aff links):

Pumpkin Candies

Toothpicks

Get a bowl for pumpkin candies and a bowl for toothpicks and you are ready to go!

Jalen built a city.

Kysen decided to make a bunch of different structures.

Here a link to the facebook post!

Check out more Fall/Halloween activities here!

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Shann Acevedo

Hi I’m Shann, a Preschool Teacher, mother of three and Creator of Learn As You Play. I have been working as a preschool teacher for 13 years with children ranging from 1- 5 years old. I believe that PLAY is a huge part of children’s learning and development. Children should be active and involved in their learning. Children learn best by doing. My goal is for children to develop a love for learning while having fun!

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