Pumpkin Patchwork Quilts
Long story short: I am WAY behind on sharing with y’all all the fun themes we’ve had over the past (counts on fingers) five months or so.
So.
Lemme start catchin’ y’all up!
This year we decided to focus October’s theme around pumpkins! After all, the area’s most popular pumpkin patch is part of our community. And considering how cheesy it is, I likely came up with the idea of making it sound like a Wheel of Fortune Before & After puzzle category: Pumpkin Patchwork Quilts.
Natasia, our awesome artist-in-residence/team member, took the theme and ran with it. I wish that my photography skills were better so that I could really show off her talent.
These were the best pics I’d taken of the tissue/scrapbook paper pumpkins she’d made to go along the bottom of our front windows:
THEY ARE SO ADORABLE!!!
I regret to inform you that I never did get a good exterior shot of those pumpkins – you can get a glimpse of them in this interior shot:
These pumpkins were all that we used for our reading bench display’s sign. We kept it simple and neat without using any words, and people completely got that autumn-themed books were featured – with some football thrown in to keep it interesting…ier. Interestingier. I’m going with it.
And this is the cute Five Little Pumpkins sign that Natasia made on our whiteboard. Jennifer, our fantastic Children’s Librarian, made the cute and very popular worksheet
And here’s my favorite pic by far. It reminds me of when I left for work one evening with everything Zen, and walked in the next day to a pumpkin wonderland:
These paper lantern pumpkins feature paper leafs and stems made from rolled newspaper wrapped in masking tape and painted a dark green.
You can also see more “patchwork pumpkins” on the wall in the back.
We made pumpkin counting into our passive program – so if kids got within five of the correct number, they’d earn a special coloring bookmark featuring our dragon mascot carrying a big pumpkin.
And there you have it: our cheery October theme of Pumpkin Patchwork Quilts!
