Additional Learning Resources for the Pumpkins & Dots Art & Baking Unit Study

Pumpkins & Dots Book List:

• Too Many Pumpkins by Linda White

• Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden by George Levenson

• Pick a Pumpkin by Patricia Toht

• The Pumpkin Book by Gail Gibbons

• Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn by Kenard Pak

• The Fierce Yellow Pumpkin by Margaret Wise Brown

• Lots of Dots by Craig Frazier

• Lots of Spots by Lois Ehlert

• 600 Black Spots by David A. Carter

• Ten Black Dots by Donald Crews

We feature pumpkin art from: Henri Matisse, Yayoi Kusama, Jean Helion, Umehara Ryuzaburo, August von Pettenkofen, Ilya Mashkov and have included an artist spotlight on Yayoi Kusama.

Artist Spotlight Book List:

• Yayoi Kusama: Ready-to-Read Level 3 by May Nakamura

• Hi, Konnichiwa: Kusama Yayoi Art Book by Yayoi Kusama

• Yayoi Kusama Covered Everything in Dots and Wasn’t Sorry by Fausto Gilberti

Pair this study up with our Autumn and Halloween Learning Pack, and our Adventures in France Week 4, all about Henry Matisse. 

Educational Videos:

Artist Spotlight Videos:

Inspiration for Crafts today:

Life cycle of a Pumpkin Resources:

Recipes with Pumpkin!

I have included some yummy recipes for you to enjoy, in the unit, but I wanted to share a few videos for you and your kids to watch and learn the steps if you and your kids are visual learners! The steps are fairly similar, and I hope you have fun in the kitchen!