fun with construction paper

My sister Liz has a cute little babysitter who came up with this fun idea while she was babysitting.  Being fall break this week, I needed to throw in a few fun things for the kids to do.  These pumpkins turned out really cute and the girls loved making them.

Here is how to make them:  Super easy!!!

gather your supplies - construction paper, brads (2 for each pumpkin) and cutter

cut strips about 1/2 inch wide of the paper.  We used 8 strips per pumpkin.
Turn them into a fan.  This is great for their little fingers and they have a blast doing it.

Concentrating - my domestic diva
We fanned the leaves tore them short and tore them into a point for the leaves.

Take 8 of the fanned pieces and a brad - punch each end through the brad connecting them all together.
Take the second brad and bring each end piece up (use the green leaf piece first so it is on top) and put it all together.  note- we wanted to have different sized pumpkins so we left some of the strips long and on a couple of the pumpkins we made the strips shorter.
little nimble fingers - so sweet
There you have it a cute little pumpkin made by your little pumpkins.  (Callie took this picture she is very proud that I used her picture.)

Thanks Liz  and Megan for sharing this idea.