Need ideas - have to turn a pumpkin into a globe by tomorrow!

[ChrisnSteph]

My dd just told me that her pumpkin assignment is due tomorrow! She was mistaken and thought it was due next week. Anyhow, she has to turn a pumpkin into an earth globe! I have one of those carvable fake pumpkins, and I thought about spray painting it blue, but I'm at a loss for how we should do the continents. My dd is not a very good artist! Should she try and draw them, cut them out of something, we don't have a copier. Any ideas?

 

[Deb & Bill]

Could you use unlined paper and trace them from a book? Or how about looking on line for maps of the continents.

Did you have to blow up a balloon when you were a kid, cover it with papier mache, paint it blue with poster paints, then glue the continents on them?

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Print them off, have her color them, and glue them on the "earth".

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

I agree--download maps...color and stick to blue pumpkin.

Question--what grade is she in? Might have better suggestions if we know.

What supplies do you have on hand that we can raid?

 

[ChrisnSteph]

She's in the 4th grade - I'm trying to find printable continents that she can color and cut out, but I'm not having a lot of luck....so far I have the pumpkin. Getting ready to go out and get the paint!

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

I'll google and see if I can find anything for you.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Here's one...it is of South America--but does have links to the other continents.

 

[rascalmom]

I would try just cutting the continents out of different colors of felt & glueing them to the pumpkin.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

http://worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/sa.htm

 

[lyeag]

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/atlas/index.html?Parent=africa&Rootmap=usla&Mode=d


Here are some printer friendly maps from national geographic.


http://fga.freac.fsu.edu/1994/pumpkin.htm


The above is a link to an actual lesson plan of this. (Of course this one is in class, not homework) I taught middle school geography... don't freak out, they aren't expecting anything too elaborate.

You could include the Prime Meridian, the Equator, the poles, and the International Dateline, and the hemispheres with a perm marker.

 

[disney4us2002]

I used to print stuff all the time when I did daycare so I went looking at my favorite sites for "kid-friendly" maps and found this one:

http://www.coloring.ws/t/columbus/6.html

Print, cut out, color, and paste to pumpkin. Good luck! My ds is also a 4th grader and notorious for telling me about projects and tests at the very last (and usually worst) moment.

 

[Southern4sure]

How about stretching out cotton balls for snow in the anartica.

 

[ChrisnSteph]

Thanks Lisa! It just might work...

 

[ChrisnSteph]

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/atlas/index.html?Parent=africa&Rootmap=usla&Mode=d


Here are some printer friendly maps from national geographic.


http://fga.freac.fsu.edu/1994/pumpkin.htm


The above is a link to an actual lesson plan of this. (Of course this one is in class, not homework) I taught middle school geography... don't freak out, they aren't expecting anything too elaborate.

You could include the Prime Meridian, the Equator, the poles, and the International Dateline, and the hemispheres with a perm marker.

Thanks so much!

 

[lyeag]

Let us know how it turns out