Pumpkin Seeds

Crunchy Pumpkin Seeds are fun to make and eat.

You'll need:

Oven

Pumpkin seeds

Cake pan or cookie sheet

Soy sauce or salt

1. Wash seeds from a pumpkin.

2. Put seeds in a bowl and season with soy sauce

3. Gently toss.

4. Oil or butter pan.

5. Pour seeds onto the pan.

Next Step-Bake and Eat

1. Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 10 minutes or until slightly golden.

2. If you didn't use soy sauce, sprinkle with salt.

3. Cool and eat! (You can try this with other edible seeds, such as sunflower seeds)

Try this with your child:

Save a few raw seeds. Eat a raw seed and a toasted seed.

Do they taste different?

Which one do you like better?

Which one is crunchy?

Count out 10 cooled pumpkin seeds and eat them.

Science Activities:

Put some fresh raw pumpkin seeds in a plastic bag with a damp paper towel.

Leave on a window sill and see what happens to the seeds.

Can you see the leaves or roots?

Observe that the pumpkin seeds came from the pumpkin plant.