The Pumpkin is a beautiful fruit and it is lucky for the wayfarer that it grows on a vine instead of upon a tree. Even an apple hurts when it hits one on the head, and we should need to wear steel helmets if we had to pass under a pumpkin tree.

In studying any fruit, the attention should be focused upon the seeds and their protection.

The squash may be studied with the same questions.

The pumpkin, like the corn, should be a link in the child's mind, connecting our present history with that of the past, for the pumpkin was cultivated by the American Indians long before white men came to America. Its native home was in a much warmer climate for it can not sustain itself in most of the United States. Every child that enjoys a piece of pumpkin pie ought to send a grateful thought to the Indian that gave to us this fruit.

Our Pumpkin Lapbook

Stories

The Twin Pumpkins

The Three Pumpkins

The Inspiring Pumpkin

Poems

Pumpkin

Pumpkins and Jesus

Pumpkin Prayer