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.

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.

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!