Puffy Pumpkins An Activity for Preschoolers: Make some adorable puffy pumpkins for autumn with this fun, sensory art experience! Goals: To explore tactile properties of the squishy paint mixture To express creativity and make a fun autumn craft Before You Start: For each child, prepare one cup of shaving cream, one squirt of orange Colorations® paint, a few squirts of school glue in small bowls. Set out facial tissues, construction paper (for background) and brown pipe cleaners. Let's Begin: 1. Have each child combine the paint, glue and shaving cream in their bowls to create an orange mixture. 2. Let them drop in the tissues, one at a time, into their mixtures and squeeze until saturated. 3. Have the children then drop the tissues onto the construction paper backgrounds to form a pumpkin shape. 4. Allow the children to add facial features to their pumpkin "blobs" while they are still wet. 5. Show the children how to curl a brown pipe cleaner and glue on as a stem if they wish. 6. Once pumpkins are dry, they will stay puffy for a few weeks and make a great hall display for fall and Thanksgiving! Furthermore: Colorations® foam paint can also be used instead of the paint and shaving cream mixture. Children can also make their pumpkins into jack-o-lanterns for Halloween! Simply pre-cut tissues into a variety of shapes for dipping into the paint mixture and place onto the pumpkins to form the jack-o-lantern face.