Activity Page, Pumpkin Spice, All the Scents

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Purpose:  In this lesson, the child will learn will experience all the scents of Pumpkin Spice. This is a sensory and learning opportunity activity.

Supplies Needed: 

• Whole and Ground Spices: All Spice, Nutmeg, Star Anise, Pepper, Ginger & Cinnamon
• Fabric Bag for drawing out whole spices and matching game
• Small containers or zip-lock bags for ground spices
• White Paper & Card stock
• Scissors
• Crayons or colored pencils
• Glue

The aromas, each smell, all the scents to be baked!

Instructions: 

 

• Read Pumpkin Spice aloud, or watch the Pumpkin Spice Online Video Version.
• For instructional purposes, select and print in color the pages that best suit what you wish to teach. You may wish to cut out, laminate, and/or print these pages on transparency or card stock depending on what works best for your classroom.
• The final two worksheets should be printed in black and white for the child to complete.

 

• Ask the question. " Have you ever smelled the scent described as Pumpkin Spice?" Explain that this scent, also used in the making of a Pumpkin Pie and many other autumn baked goods, is made up of several different spices.
• On the "Pumpkin Spice Identification Page," read through the names of the spices, and ask if the spices sound familiar. Also ask the question, "Have you ever seen any of these spices in their whole form?"
• Using your fabric spice bag, have a child draw a spice from the bag. Then have them place the spice on the correct section of the "Pumpkin Spice Identification Page." Continue this activity until the child has properly identified and placed all the spices.
• The "Fun Facts Matching Pages" can be customized for various child age groups. For older children, it may be appropriate to have the children match fun facts, spice names, and spice images to an entirely blank worksheet. For younger children, you may wish to only match the name or the image. Print the worksheets that best fit your child/children.
• Please note that these worksheets are for instructional purposes. It may be appropriate to laminate them and use them for small group instruction at a round table, or to project them onto a board.
• Using your fabric spice bag, have the child draw a fun fact, spice name, or spice image from the bag. Then have them place it on the correct section of the "Fun Facts Page." Continue this activity until the child has properly identified and placed all the spices, names, and images.

Have the children color and cut out the spice names on the worksheet. Match the spice name to the proper image.

 

• Place each ground spice in a numbered zip-lock bag, 1-6.
• Have the children color and cut out the numbers on the bottom of the worksheet.
• After smelling each spice in its coordinating numbered bag, have the child match the smell to the proper image on the worksheet. How did they do? Did they get it right?

Nutmeg: 

The seed is from a dark evergreen tree. Fun Fact: This seed actually produces two spices. The outside covering of the seed also produces the spice Mace.

Pepper:

The spice comes from the berries of a woody vine, and the variation in its colors depends on whether or not its berries are dried while ripe or unripe. Fun Fact: This spice was considered so valuable in ancient cultures that it was sometimes used as a currency, stuffed in the nose of a mummified Pharoah, and used as ransom against Ancient Rome.

Star Anise: 

This spice comes from the star-like structures of flowers from an evergreen shrub. Fun Fact: This spice has powerful herbal properties that treat many ailments. Modern pharmaceutical companies use to harvest the vast majority of the world's supply of this spice to create a drug that fights the flu.

Ginger:

This root comes from a flowering plan and is used in many types of cuisines and herbal remedies. Fun Fact: One of the worlds most popular sodas is made from the spice.

Cinnamon:

Obtained from the bark of a tree. Fun Fact: This spice is often used in the preparation of chocolate, especially in Mexico.

All Spice:

A dried, unripe berry that is said to encompass all the flavors of cinnamon, nutmeg and clove. Fun Fact: This spice is often referred to as Jamaican Pepper and is used in traditional Jamaican Jerk seasoning.

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