Pumpkin Growing On The Vine Coloring Page

Most pumpkin sheets show the fruit alone on a doorstep. This one puts it back where it grew. The pumpkin sits high on the page with three large pointed leaves fanned out in front of it, each carrying a single vein down its middle, and thin tendrils loop away to the left and right in loose coils. The arrangement gives the sheet a real subject rather than a floating shape. It works alongside a lesson about where food comes from, since the leaves and the curling tendrils are the parts children rarely see in a grocery store. Ask what the coils are for before anyone starts, and the answer, that the plant uses them to grab hold of whatever is nearby, usually surprises them. On the coloring side, those leaves are the interesting problem. They overlap each other, so deciding which one sits in front means picking a slightly different shade for each. A set of three greens handles it. Save the warm tones for the body of the pumpkin and let the vine stay cool behind it.