A bumpin' thumpin' rhyming picture book about the delicious fate of a gigantic pumpkin on the run!

When Buck, Billy, and their little sister Lil spy the biggest pumpkin they've ever seen, they can't resist. Buck and Billy try to roll the pumpkin down the hill to show everyone, but it's too big! Before they know it, it's bumping and thumping and rolling down the hillside out of control. This read aloud Halloween treat is perfect for kids and families.

-Amazon

Challenge:

Design and create a way to stop a moving pumpkin. Be sure to use the Engineering Design Process. Click here for the steps.

Materials:

For the stopping contraption - Try using only recycled materials. Here are some suggestions: paper towel tubes, aluminum foil, empty cans, newspaper, bubble wrap, Popsicle sticks., plastic grocery bags, tissue paper, etc.

The pumpkin can be real or fake. If you don't have a pumpkin, use something similar like a baseball or tennis ball.

Restrictions - Pumpkin must be in motion- try rolling it down a ramp or making it roll like a bowling ball.

Goal:

The rolling pumpkin must be stopped by the design you create.

Guidelines:

Try to use as many recycled items as possible. To participate, you may submit your pictures and/or video of you pumpkin being stopped on the Specials/Library SeeSaw under the October STEAM Challenge Activity before October 31st.

Challenge:

See just how heavy an object your creation can stop! Report how your stopping creation did in the SeeSaw Activity.

Good Luck, Hawks!