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Pumpkin Patch and Math

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Pumpkin Patch and Math

A few years ago, we started going to the pumpkin patch in the fall and it quickly became a favourite family tradition. So, every year during the month of October, we drive out and spend the day at the pumpkin patch. It’s the perfect day.

After a few hours of wandering through a corn maze and wagon rides, we found the mountain of pumpkins and picked out our perfect pumpkin. Zoé found ours this year and it was a great big pumpkin. We loaded it up in our car and headed home to carve it up.

Pumpkin Math Printable and Activity

While we were carving our pumpkins, we decided to do a little math activity. Using the super awesome worksheet below, we had some fun practicing measuring our pumpkins. Alexie learned how to use a ruler and a tape measure. We measured the circumference, diameter, and weight of our pumpkins. We also estimated how many seeds were in our pumpkins and then counted how many were actually inside. This is clearly a skill we’ll need to work on, but it was just a fun thing to do.

Pumpkin MathDownload

We designed fun faces for our jack-o-lanterns and had a fun and educational evening. Oh and then we roasted the seeds. They were delicious and the perfect way to end the day!

Sink or Float

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Sink or Float

We have finally been getting hot summer weather! That means we’ve finally been able to pull out our kiddie pool and enjoy it! Both girls love to splash around in their pool, pouring water, shooting water guns and throwing things into the pool to make them swim.

It was precisely the girls’ excitement at throwing things into the pool that sparked a question. What sinks and what floats? So, we set out to do an experiment and see!

We gathered a bunch of things from the house and the yard. They were things that I didn’t mind getting wet. And I made a point of adding a few items that I thought would be interesting, like a metal bottle.

Then, we headed out to the pool. We introduced Alexie to the idea of a “hypothesis”, making an educated guess. Before throwing each item into the pool, she had to guess if it would sink or float. Once the item met the water and we had the result, we sorted them by category (sink, float and later both).

THings that sink or float

This experiment was so much fun and was a great way to mix summer play and fun with math and science. If we got a little wet along the way, it was just a bonus!