The school year will be starting soon and students will be back in the classrooms. That also means Rebecca Livingston, Ag in the Classroom Coordinator for Christian and Montgomery County, will be back in the classroom too. She’s planning her lessons for the year and for one of them she’s planning to build a pumpkin catapult with the students. 

It’ll take a lot of prep work to get it ready for the classroom, but Livingston explains the pumpkin catapults are pretty easy to make. 

Livingston believes the pumpkin catapult is a valuable—and fun—lesson that will teach kids about the important role pumpkins play in the state of Illinois.

It’s not just the catapults, however. At every level Livingston teaches she has lessons ready for the fall that revolve around pumpkins. 

Livingston appeared as guest a guest on the WTIM Morning Show.