Pumpkin Globes

In my field placement last week, the second grade classes made a very interesting craft.  All of the second graders brought in a pumpkin, and they painted them blue.  They then colored a map of the continents.  They colored each continent a different color.  They then cut out each continent and taped them to the pumpkin.  They had to place each continent in its general vicinity on the globe.  I feel like this was a great project that helped the students better understand where the continents are located in relation to one another.  I would definitely consider doing this activity in my own classroom.