As a Halloween tradition, we took the kids to the pumpkin patch to pick out the perfect pumpkins! There were so many different sizes and colors and shapes of pumpkins, they were overwhelmed!! I had $16 cash so I told the kids we could only spend $16. Each pumpkin had their dollar price marked in sharpie on them, so the kids went around looking at the prices and adding the amounts together. It turned out to be a spontaneous math lesson :) Finally, they decided they didn't each want to have their own pumpkin, but instead settled on a very tall big family pumpkin for $10 and a smaller, yet still quite big one for $6. We had to work together to haul them both onto the wagon and pull them over to the checkout counter.
When we got home, a few days later, we carved our giant pumpkin. The boys helped to get out the pumpkin guts, which they really disliked. Then, they wanted him to look scary, so we drew on his face first, then cut it out. We put him outside on our back porch. They were very proud of their giant pumpkin!
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