The Runaway Pumpkin

I love this story because we can talk about thinking bubbles and patterns in the rhyming. The pumpkin gets away and the family all try to stop it while thinking about all the different foods they could make out of the pumpkin. The farmer ends up digging a hole with his tractor to stop it.

I asked the kiddos to come up with their own "pumpkin trap". Here are a few examples of what they came up with:

I would catch it with some vines.