They are great for lots of other crafting, too! Read on to see how you can easily color and scent pumpkin seeds for Fall.
You can buy bags of pumpkin seeds for this recipe or wait until you carve pumpkins, and use those seeds.
Coloring Pumpkin Seeds for Play
Materials
We made 5 varieties of pumpkin seeds. All the spices we used can be found in the pantry section of most grocery stores.
We used:
To do this glue twigs to paper, and then use the seeds to make the leaves.
Extend the Fun
- Pumpkin pie spice to make orange pumpkin seeds.
- Apple Pie Spice to make green apple seeds.
- Clove to make yellow clove seeds.
- Cranberry extract to make red cranberry seeds.
- Coffee extract to make brown coffee seeds.
Method
- Place the desired amount of pumpkin seeds into a zip-seal bag, using one bag for each variety of seeds that you wish to make.
- Add several drops of food coloring, the desired amount of scent, and 1-2 tablespoons of water.
- Seal the bags.
- Then, have kids mix and shake the bags until the seeds are fully saturated in color.
- Once saturated open the bags and leave the seeds to dry. Drying will take roughly 2-3 hours.
Playing with Colored Pumpkin Seeds
- Add the seeds to a play bin along with tongs, scoopers, and kitchen gadgets for some fabulous Fall sensory play.
- Use pumpkin seeds to practice patterning, counting, and sorting.
- Make Fall leaf trees using colorful pumpkin seeds.
- Use seeds to make inside-out pumpkins.
- Practice literacy skills.
- Use pumpkin seeds to practice counting.
- Use a pumpkin to grow a pumpkin!
- Make pumpkin soup.
- Store colored pumpkin seeds in an air-tight container, and they can be used again & again!
