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Stitch Squirrel provides a little tree space for some needle and thread projects  - handmade resources to support learning and development.
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Pumpkin Soup recipe
Preschool snack time food or serve as or in part of a main meal.

Pumpkin soup preschool recipe - vegan vegetarian


Vegetarian and vegan recipe Suitable for vegetarians and vegans
Please select products/ingredients that exclude animal by products, dairy - butter, fish.

pumpkin Make your pumpkin soup by..

orange emptying and hollowing out a pumpkin and separating the inner seeds or pips from the more solid flesh.

orange carve and decorate your pumpkin once empty
Empty and carve your pumpkin
pumpkin
  Ingredients
Serves approx. 8 smaller sized portions.

A medium sized pumpkin
3 small to medium potatoes
1 onion
1 pint of water and ..
2 vegetable stock cubes.
2 tablespoons of Biona's worcestershire sauce
1 heaped teaspoon medium strength curry powder (opt)
3 bay leaves


 

 
orange peel and chop the potatoes, pumpkin flesh and onion.
orange add to the saucepan.
orange pour over the pint of stock, puree, curry  seasoning.
orange place the bay leaves on the top and cover.
orange simmer over a medium heat for about 30 - 40 minutes.
orange once cooked use a liquidiser or similar and blend the soup until smooth
orange dish up into individual bowls and serve with crusty bread rolls, garlic bread or croutons.

pumpkin   Other pumpkin resources ..

orange 5 orange pumpkins in a greengrocers shop number rhyme activities

Pumpkin outline template
orange Pumpkin outline template

orange Pumpkin spice recipe  

orange Pumpkin spice and jar labels

 
How many seeds in a pumpkin?
orange   How many seeds in a pumpkin  
Written by Margaret McNamara and illustrated by G. Brian Karas

This is an excellent book, written from an American perspective it introduces the concept of 'thinking homework', methods of counting, how size doesn't necessarily denote contents, how pumpkins grow, how their colour is related to age/time spent on the vine and the how, for each line on the outside there is a line or row of seeds on the inside!
Grow pumpkins from seed this year and enjoy a range of orange, segmented activities ..

pumpkin Composting blog from Teacher Tom and rat in the garden


Pumpkins Pumpkins





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