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Presents Life Cycle of a Pumpkin Actors: Pumpkins 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 Pumpkin 1: What is a pumpkin? Pumpkin 2: A pumpkin is a fruit. It grows on a vine like other kinds of squash. Pumpkin 3: Pumpkins can be bumpy or smooth, large or small, long or round. Pumpkin 4: They can be orange, white, yellow, or red. Pumpkin 5: Each year there is a new crop of pumpkins. Their hard shells have deep lines that go from top to bottom. Pumpkin 1: Pumpkins begin as seeds. The seeds are white and have an oval shape. Pumpkin 2: A tiny plant is curled up inside each seed. 1 Pumpkin 3: The seed is planted in warm, moist soil. In about ten days, a root grows down into the soil. Pumpkin 4: The root takes in water and food for the plant. Tiny leaves push up into the sunlight. Pumpkin 5: In the late spring, the first two leaves pop through the soil. These are smooth seed leaves. They use sunlight and air to make food for the new plant. Pumpkin 1: prickly. Then the true leaves appear. They are jagged and Pumpkin 2: The job of the seed leaves is done. They wither and fall off. Pumpkin 3: During the early summer, the pumpkin plant grows more leaves. The plant grows quickly and soon becomes a vine. Pumpkin 4: The vine twists and creeps along the ground. Pumpkins 5: The vine sends out thin tendrils. Pumpkins 1 & 2: They grab and curl around other vines. Pumpkins 3 & 4: They twist around fences. Pumpkin 5: longer. The tendrils support the vine as it grows longer and Pumpkin 1: The pumpkin vine blooms with many yellow flowers. Some of these are female flowers. 2 Pumpkin 2: Female flowers sit on small, fuzzy, green balls. Pumpkin 3: Other flowers are male flowers. They are on long stems and have yellow powder inside the flower. Pumpkin 4: The yellow powder is pollen. It takes a male and female flower to make a pumpkin. Pumpkin 5: It also takes bees to make pumpkins. They move the pollen from male flowers to female flowers. Pumpkin 1: When a bee visits the male flowers, the pollen sticks to the bee’s body and legs. Pumpkin 2: The pollen rubs off the bee as it goes in and out of the flowers. When the pollen reaches a female flower, the fuzzy green ball at the end of t he flower begins to grow into a pumpkin. Pumpkin 3: All summer the vines, tendrils, and leaves of the plant grow and tangle together. Underneath the big leaves are little pumpkins. Pumpkin 4: The leaves are like big umbrellas. They keep the got sun off the pumpkins. They also help to keep the soil around the pumpkins from drying out. Pumpkin 5: Growing pumpkins need just the right amount of water and sun. Too much rain rots the pumpkins. Pumpkin 1: Too much sun withers the vines. Pumpkin 2: Cucumber beetles and squash bugs can hurt pumpkins too. Farmers spray the plant with insecticides or cover the vines with nets to protect the growing pumpkins. 3 Pumpkin 3: The pumpkins grow bigger and bigger. Pumpkin 4: Inside, the pumpkins form seeds and pulp. Pumpkin 5: Outside, the pumpkins turn from green to orange. Pumpkin 1: Then the vines turn brown. Harvest time has come. Pumpkin 2: The farmer cuts the thick pumpkin stem from the vine. Pumpkin 3: Four months ago there were only seeds. Now the farmer has harvested a wagon full of round, orange pumpkins. Pumpkin 4: They will be sold at farm stands and stores. Pumpkin 5: Cook pumpkins and use the pulp to make pumpkin pie, cookies, soup, and bread. Some pumpkins are fed to farm animals. Pumpkin 1: Some towns hold a pumpkin festival to celebrate the fall harvest. Sometimes there is a contest to find out who grew the biggest pumpkin. Pumpkin 2: Inside the pumpkin are many seeds. Some seeds are roasted to be eaten as a snack. Pumpkin 3: Other seeds are saved to be planted in the spring. They will grow into next year’s pumpkins. Pumpkin 4: After the pumpkins are picked and sold, the farmer plows the field. Pumpkin 5: Old vines and unpicked pumpkins get mixed with the soil. The field is ready for planting seeds again next spring. 4