The pumpkin festival will be interesting if you use the proposed scenario. We also offer easy ideas on how to make an autumn costume, pumpkin and crow. In autumn, a pumpkin festival is traditionally held in children's institutions. In a fun way, children will learn a lot about this vegetable, about autumn, about harvesting.
Pumpkin Festival - scenario
The hall needs to be decorated accordingly, for this it is necessary to make the attributes of autumn. Roles are assigned in advance, costumes are sewn. It will be easier for parents to make them by adopting the ideas below.
So, the guests have gathered. The pumpkin festival begins. Children, dressed in costumes of vegetables, enter the hall to a song about autumn.
A child in a raven costume runs in. He flaps his wings and says:
Crow:
Kar-kar! Autumn has come. The leaves turn yellow, fly around, the grass and flowers do not grow, heavy clouds are walking across the sky, it has become cold, it often rains. But autumn is a lot of interesting things to do. Guys, what can you do this time of year?
Children:
- walking on the street;
- go to museums, theaters, the zoo;
- harvest in the country;
- go to the forest for mushrooms;
- making autumn crafts;
- look for beautiful fallen leaves, dry them, etc.
Crow:
That's right guys! And also, at any time of the year and in any weather, you need to be friends, visit and receive guests. Oh, someone just came to us! Kar-kar, I wonder who it is?
Space music sounds, a representative of an extraterrestrial civilization comes out.
Alien:
Reception, reception, base. I am at the place, I am in the city (such and such), in the kindergarten number (such and such).
Crow:
Kar-kar! Greetings! Who are you and where did you come from?
Alien:
I flew from a distant planet, my name is Avkyt. I need to take something on Earth. And what, this information was not invested in me.
Crow:
Don't worry, Avkyt. I am a Raven, friends have gathered here, we will certainly help you get what you came for. Until then, stay on our Pumpkin Party!
Alien:
Thanks!
The song sounds: "Yellow Leaves". Two girls come out, each dressed in an autumn costume. They are dancing, each holding yellow maple leaves.
Autumn 1:
Hello dear guests!
Autumn 2:
We are glad to welcome you to our autumn kingdom!
Crow:
Guys, do you understand who this is?
Children:
Early and late autumn.
Autumn 1:
Yes, we are sisters.
Autumn 2:
Yes, I'm following my older sister!
Autumn 1:
I am early autumn, joyful, luxuriantly harvested, rich in harvest. I invite everyone to my kingdom. A magic wand will help us.
Autumn 2:
I am brooding and a little sad. Sometimes I sit in silence, listen to the rustle of falling leaves, sometimes I even cry quietly. But it is refreshing rain that helps keep the earth and trees moist before winter. I am late autumn.
Crow:
But each of you is beautiful in its own way and we really like it. Listen to what beautiful poems the poets have written about you. The children will read them now.
Several children come out in turn and read poems about this time of year. The pumpkin festival continues.
Autumn 1:
Guys, thanks for the wonderful poems, you read them very well!
Autumn 2:
Children, and you know that I am the richest of all seasons. After all, I have a friend Harvest. He gives us autumn supplies! I propose to invite him to our holiday.
Guys:
Harvest, Harvest!
But he does not appear.
Autumn 1:
For the Harvest to come to us on the Pumpkin holiday, you need to work hard.
Autumn 2:
Guys, let's help to harvest vegetables, then it will certainly appear.
Game "Collect vegetables"
For such entertainment, you need to prepare in advance:
- baskets;
- fabric vegetables.
You can draw carrots, beets on cardboard, paint, cut with scissors. There should be 2 times more of these vegetables than the number of participants. On the one hand, carrots are laid out in advance, on the other, beets. These vegetables are placed as if they were in the garden.
Children are divided into two teams, each with a basket. The raven gives the go-ahead, and the first participants run to the "beds" to harvest. Then, they return to the place, transfer the baskets to the second participants. Thus, the pumpkin festival continues. The team that picks vegetables from their garden faster wins.
Crow:
Guys, well done! You are so dexterous and put everything together so quickly! And here is a letter from Harvest, he wants to test your knowledge too. Riddles are written here. Let's guess them.
The raven tells children riddles, the answers to which will be all sorts of vegetables:
- potatoes;
- radish;
- peas;
- a tomato;
- cucumber;
- pumpkin.
Children guess them, and Harvest appears, and with it - the guys dressed in costumes of vegetables. The children have just guessed their name. Vegetables bring out the hero of the occasion - a large round-sided pumpkin, which, together with the Harvest, becomes the center, and the rest of those who came line up in a semicircle around the edges.
Harvest:
Hello! I am the Harvest. You watched the defile with the participation of vegetables, the main thing in this collection of mine is pumpkin! She is beautiful and very helpful. People from different countries love it, they prepare many delicious dishes and various decorations for the home from it. This is the main attribute of the Halloween holiday. Look at the screen.
A short video clip about a pumpkin is shown on the screen. From it, children and guests will learn that:
- the pumpkin ripens by autumn, is stored all winter;
- they celebrate Halloween with her;
- you can make a whole lunch from it - the first, second, third and dessert;
- beautiful dishes from which everyone will drink and eat;
- she has many sisters, they look different, live in different countries (lagenaria, momordica, chayote, trichozant).
Harvest:
what a wonderful vitamin pumpkin! Let's listen to ditties about her.
Chastooshkas about a pumpkin sound.
Alien:
(approaches the pumpkin) I recognized you! After all, when they made me, they thought about what to call. Then my creators received a photograph from Earth with your name on it! But on our planet they read from right to left, so I was named after you, but the name reads the other way around "Avkyt"! You are such a lovely autumn berry! May I take some of your seeds to plant on my planet?
Pumpkin:
Of course we will give you what you ask for! And a big harvest for you!
Harvest:
Now let's all sing a song about friendship. After all, it is fun to work and relax together. And it's good when there are people who are able to come to the rescue at any time!
The song "It is fun to walk together" is played.
Alien:
I have to go. Goodbye! I will fly to my planet. Thank you for the fun holiday and the seeds!
He retires to cosmic music.
Harvest:
It's time for us too. Fruits, vegetables, berries, and, come on, jump into the basket. The children playing these characters take a large painted basket, hold it in front of them, and leave.
Autumn 1:
And it's time for us to say goodbye. I pass the magic wand to my older sister. (Hands over the wand).
Autumn 2:
Goodbye guys and guests! Dress warmer, then you will not be afraid of any autumn cold. Remember to temper to grow strong and healthy. On December 1st, I will hand over the magic wand to winter. This time of year, there are plenty of festivities and fun awaiting you too, but don't forget to study and work!
Crow:
Kar-kar-kar! Until next time!
A song about autumn sounds, a matinee and the scenario of the pumpkin holiday ends.
Now look at how to make attributes, sew costumes, so that the holiday is a success!
How to sew an autumn costume for the pumpkin holiday?
At the holiday, autumn can be portrayed by a child or a teacher. If you need a suit for an adult, then pay attention to the following.
To sew it, prepare:
- brown and yellow linen;
- maple leaf pattern;
- tulle;
- scissors;
- wire;
- artificial flowers;
- rim on the head.
Manufacturing instruction:
- To sew a dress, you can take a pattern or, as a template, an old one. Unplug the sleeves, bodice from it, open the grooves. Attach the bodice, both sleeves and the hem of the skirt to the yellow fabric, cut them out, cut them out.
- Mark the location of the undercuts, first stitch them, and then stitch the front and back of the bodice with shelves on the sides and shoulders. Gather the skirt at the waist and close the side seams.
- Attach the leaf template to the remnants of the yellow canvas, cut out. Cut a strip from the brown fabric, pin the fabric leaves to it. Sew on each using a zigzag stitch.
- Place this decorative element vertically on the front of the skirt. Stitch it at the top with a basting stitch.
- Attach the bodice to the skirt, sew these two pieces together. Close the side seams of the sleeves, sew them on the shoulders into the armholes of the bodice. Finish the bottom of the sleeves and the hem of the dress.
But the autumn costume also consists of a wreath. To make it, wrap wire around the stems of the artificial flowers. Use it to wrap them around the hair band.
You can decorate the wreath with artificial rowan branches, beautiful dried grass, having previously covered it with varnish for strength. An autumn suit for an adult is ready. And here's how to quickly make it for a child.
Take:
- a yellow or brown skirt;
- remnants of tissue;
- scissors;
- wide headband;
- satin ribbon;
- some brown yellow and orange fabric;
- leaves;
- hair fixation spray;
- glue gun;
- thread with a needle.
Measure the child's hips, add 5 cm. This width needs to be cut rectangles from the remnants of various fabrics. The narrowest one is 7 cm wide. Each other is slightly wider than the previous one. The width of the latter is the same as that of the skirt.
Now cut each of these pieces into fringes, but leave the top intact. It is this part that needs to be stitched to the top of the skirt, arranging the blanks in order so that it looks a little wider from the narrow one.
To make a headpiece, sew a cloth and ribbon over the headband as shown.
Cover the dried leaves with hairspray, glue them to the front of the headdress.
Cut a circle out of an orange fabric, gather its edges onto a thread, tighten it, tie a knot. Sew to the rim fabric with the same thread.
Cut a rectangle out of the orange canvas, fold it in half, aligning the long sides. Gather on a thread, but not tightly, but making such a zigzag blank, which must be sewn into the center of the flower.
The autumn wreath on the head is ready. You can put on an outfit and go to the holiday.
Pumpkin costume for the holiday
Be sure to make an outfit for the main character. After all, the holiday of the pumpkin is not complete without it. You can make it without even having a pattern.
But what you can't do without, without:
- leggings;
- yellow or orange fabric;
- padding polyester;
- black fabric;
- adhesive fleece;
- lining;
- rubber bands.
Sequence of creation:
- For the base, you can use a child's T-shirt. If you are using a T-shirt for this, tuck the sleeves inside.
- Lay this base on a yellow canvas folded in half. Outline, make the lines on the sides large and rounded. Cut out the sleeves if you want, but without this detail, you get a wonderful pumpkin costume.
- Cut out its details, you should get: the back and the front. The neckline is deeper in the front.
- Now attach each of these pieces to the lining fabric and filler sheet, cut out. If you have a dense fabric that holds its shape, then you can sew a pumpkin costume without filler and lining.
- If the fabric is thin, then sew a base from it. Stitch the lining fabric. Make a three-layer suit, with a synthetic winterizer between the main fabric and the lining.
- Connect these details at the armhole, neckline and bottom. Cut out the facial features of the pumpkin from black fabric, attach them with glue interlining. You can just sew to the base.
- Fold over and stitch the hem, leaving room to fit the elastic here. Tighten it. Sew the ends.
It remains to put on leggings, put on a hat with a sewn-on tail made of green or yellow fabric and enjoy how to sew a pumpkin costume with your own hands, you did it great.
Now see how to make another holiday character's outfit.
Making a Crow Costume for the Pumpkin Party
To do this, you will need:
- tape measure;
- thin artificial leather or similar fabric;
- scissors;
- brown or black fringe;
- feathers;
- a thread.
Then follow this sequence:
- Take the following measurement from whoever you're making a raven costume for. Have this person spread their arms out to the sides. Measure the distance from the right hand to the left hand.
- This diameter will be the circle that you cut out of thin leather or fabric.
- If you don't have the right material, you can even use black spunbond, geotextile.
- Cut a circle from the selected fabric, cut a hole for the head in the center. Sew on the edges with dark fringe, if not available, cut the edges into strips or feathers.
- Sew on the back of the tail from the same fabric. If you have a feather boa, take it. If they are light, paint. Wrap around your neck. If there is no such accessory, then you need to collect feathers on a thread and make it. If there are no feathers, then cut them out of the fabric.
If you have black faux fur in your home, use it. Also measure the distance between outstretched arms, using this measurement, cut out an oval. Find the center of it, make a straight cut from here to the small edge. Sew on the strings. The wing cape is ready.
Using silver and black fabric, you will craft and learn how to make a raven costume. Construct a mask with a beak out of black.
Raven wings for the pumpkin holiday can even be made from a black scarf with a fringe or made from a circle of fabric by cutting its edges into thin strips.
Fold over and stitch the hem, leaving room to fit the elastic here. Tighten it. Sew the ends.
You can cut the wings of a bird along with the back, breast and tail. To indicate feathers, draw them with chalk and sew along the markings with white thread.
This is how to make costumes for the pumpkin holiday to celebrate it perfectly. The script will help with this. And you already know how to make an alien costume.
We wish you creative success, and the video will give you even more inspiration.
Costume ideas for the pumpkin holiday are in the second video review.
