The life cycle of a pumpkin.

1. The Pumpkin Life
Cycle

2. Can you describe what a
pumpkin looks like?

3. Do you know what season
you usually see pumpkins?

4. Have you ever Have you ever
seen inside a helped carve a
pumpkin? pumpkin?

5. When you were helping carve the
pumpkin, what did you see when
you looked inside of the pumpkin?

6. Stage 2:
Plant
Stage 1: Stage 3:
Seed The Stages of Flower
the Pumpkin Life
Cycle
Stage 5: Stage 4:
Orange Green
Pumpkin Pumpkin

7. First we plant the
pumpkin seed.

8. Then we watch over time as
the seed begins to grow into a
pumpkin sprout.

9. The sprout then grows
into a pumpkin vine.

10. After the vine as grown the vine
begins to grow yellow flowers.

11. Then the beautiful yellow flower
turns into a very small green
pumpkin.

12. The green pumpkin grows bigger
and bigger and then turns
orange!

13. When you go to the pumpkin
patch to pick your pumpkin, how
can you get the seeds to plant
another pumpkin?
Inside the pumpkin there are hundreds of seeds!
You can cut open your pumpkin to get the seeds to
plant your pumpkins for next fall!

14. How can we use pumpkins?
We can use them in cooking! Pumpkins are
in pumpkin pies, pumpkin cookies and
pumpkin bread!
We can also use them to
decorate and to make
Jack-o'-lantern by carving
faces into the pumpkins
during the Halloween
season.!

15. Did you know?
• A pumpkin is actually
a fruit.
• You can eat the
pumpkin flowers.
• You can roast the
pumpkin seeds and
eat them!

16. Review
The life cycle of a
pumpkin.

17. The life cycle of a pumpkin.
• Stage 1: Pumpkin seed
• Stage 2: Sprout
• Stage 3: Vine
• Stage 4: Yellow pumpkin flower
• Stage 5: Green pumpkin
• Stage: 6: Orange pumpkin

18. Works Cited
• Slide One Slide Eleven
– Pumpkin picture: mycutegraphics.com -Green pumpkin picture:
• Slide Two gardeningwithoutskills.blogspot.com
• Slide Three -Fall leaves [icture: webclipart.about.com
• Slide Four Wagoon picture: webclipart.about.com
– Pumpkin face picture:
Slide Twelve
http://masterworks.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/p -Pumpkin picture:
umpkins-jack-o-lanterns-witches-oh-my/ http://www.mariquita.com/recipes/Pumpkins.html
Slide Five -Little boy picture: mycutegraphics.com
– Inside the pumpkin picture:
Slide Thirteen
http://www.cookingwithmykid.com/recipes/baked -Fall leaves picture: mycutegraphics.com
-pumpkin-oatmeal/ Slide Fourteen
Slide Six - Pumpkin picture:
- -http://www.enchantedlearning.com
http://mootoo.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/jack-o-
lanterns/Slide Fifteen.
• Slide Seven
- Fun facts: http://www.pumpkinfresh.com/facts.htm
– Seed picture:
- Boy picture:
http://www.health.com/health/gallery/0,,2043000
1,00.html
www.mycutegraphics.com/graphics/graphics.html
– Fall leaves picture: webclipart.about.com
Slide Sixteen:
• Slide Eight
-Leaves picture: mycutegraphics.com
– Pumpkin sprout picture: Slide Seventeen:
http://www.dreamstime.com/stock-image-
-Background: http://pieceful-
pumpkin-sprout-image14473261
moments.blogspot.com/2007_10_01_archive.html
– Fall Tree picture: clipartmojo.com
• Slide Nine
– Pumpkin vive picture: petunias-
garden.blogspot.com
– Pumpkin vive boarder: ellison.com
• Slide Ten
– Flower picture: moblog.net
– Hanging leaves pumpkin:
http://media.photobucket.com/image/fall%20leav
es/wingsuit/fall.gif?o=257