Fall is not officially here for me until I’ve made and devoured pumpkin bread. The very thought of pumpkin bread makes my mouth water and I usually have to drop everything to make some. That’s why I made some right before writing this post so I wouldn’t get interrupted!
While we were waiting for the bread to cool, Sammi wanted to play with play dough. My mom, who’s visiting, is very creative and always has the patience and energy to pull out all the stops when it comes to “projects” with Sammi. So she pulled out the play dough and found that Sammi has swirled the red and yellow together. She took this opportunity to teach Sammi about making new colors.
She squished the yellow and red together until there made a perfect pumpkin orange color. Then, to solidify the concept, she mixed the blue and (now) orange together to make a green color for the stem. Sammi loved making new colors. Now we were ready to make the pumpkins.
We made balls of orange play dough then used a play dough knife to make the stripes on the pumpkin. We showed Sammi how and let her do her own. I was sure she’d demolish the ball but it actually remained fairly round. I was very impressed. Then we rolled out a little of the green and added it to the top for a stem.
We put all our pumpkins together and had a little pumpkin patch. I pulled out a Cinderella book from the shelf and showed Sammi the page where the Fairy Godmother changed the pumpkin into a carriage. Sammi loved that and made a magic wand to go with the pumpkins.
We sliced our pumpkin bread and devoured it while admiring our pumpkin patch. Fall is officially here!
Pumpkin Bread Recipe
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon clover
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 c oil
- 16 oz canned pumpkin
- 1 cup mini chocolate chips
Mix ingredients together. Pour into 2 greased and floured bread pans. Cook in preheated oven at 325° for 65-75 minutes.
Cows Love Pumpkins
We recently came across this little poem in one of our Babybug magazines. It’s grown on me over the months since we first read it. I hope you enjoy it with your little ones, too.
Cows love pumpkins
Pigs love squash
I love you
I do, by gosh!
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Thank you for the recipe. We will be trying it out soon! I don’t think I’ve ever had pumpkin bread with chocolate chips in it before but it sounds great.
It’s yummy! I hope you like it and it becomes a fall tradition for your family, too
That’s great your mom got to visit. I’ve never made pumpkin bread, so I’ll have to try it.
I just posted some more all outings on my blog. The mountains are so beautiful right now.
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