Pumpkin
What month is National Pumpkin Month?
October?
National Pumpkin Month is in October because this is the time of year when pumpkins are harvested and widely used in fall recipes, decorations, and festivities
The pumpkin life cycle has six stages: _____, sprout, vine, flower, green pumpkin, and mature pumpkin. What is the first stage?
Seeds?
This popular fall fruit is found in pies, drinks, and in sauce form. They can be red, yellow, or green.
Apple?
This sport is commonly watched on Sundays.
Football?
The last day of summer and first day of fall happen in this month.
September?
What is the first stage of a pumpkin life cycle?
Planting seeds
Which insect helps pollinate pumpkin flowers?
Bees?
These seeds can be roasted or eaten. They are found in the middle of a big orange fruit.
Pumpkin seeds?
This activity involves scooping seeds out of this orange fruit and cutting out a design.
Carving?
Another name for fall.
Autumn?
When you open a pumpkin, you will find hundreds of....
seeds?
The color of a pumpkin before it turns orange.
Green?
It starts off as green in color due to the chlorophyll in the skin.
In addition to carving, pumpkins are also processed into various food products such as _________.
Pumpkin pie, pumpkin cheesecake, donuts, muffins and cookies
This chore involves cleaning up leaves that have fallen off trees.
Raking leaves?
Pumpkin comes in a variety of colors. Name 5.
Orange, yellow, red, pink, white, green, black, blue
It can take _________ days for seeds to grow into mature pumpkins
90 - 120 days
List three things pumpkins can be used for.
Decorating, cooking and carving?
What part of a pumpkin you cannot eat, as it is woody, and dry?
Stem (or stalk)
The place you go on a hunt to find the best pumpkin.
Pumpkin patch?
The largest pumpkin ever recorded weighed more than ________ pounds.
2,800 pounds
Name of the famous children's book featuring a pumpkin carriage?
Cinderella?
Pumpkins are a fruit or a vegetable.
Fruit?
Scientifically speaking, pumpkins are a fruit (they contain seeds) but when it comes to cooking, they are often referred to as vegetables.
Campfire treat with marshmallows, chocolate and graham crackers.
S'mores?
This activity involves riding in a wagon through a pumpkin patch or farm.
Hayride?
What is the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown?