Pumpkin Theme
Pratt's Educational
Resources
Halloween Theme
Pumpkin
Mini-Book (pdf) The activities includes: draw a
pumpkin, predict how many pumpkin
seeds there will be, how many pumpkin seeds there are, what your seeds
looked like (you can glue the seeds on the paper), what the pumpkin
looks like inside, and a funny picture of
a pumpkin.
Note: The parent (or teacher) will need to cut the pumpkin
in half.
Pumpkin Activities
Read: Pumpkin, Pumpkin by Jeanne
Titherington (or any other
book).
Talk about the different stages of a pumpkin. (The seed comes
first. The sprout comes second. The plant comes third.
The flower comes fourth. The green pumpkin comes fifth. And
finally, the orange pumpkin comes sixth.)
Make a pumpkin.
Pumpkin Craft
Place the fronts of two paper plates together. Hole punch holes
around the sides and bottom. Have the children lace their
pumpkins with orange yarn. Tie off the ends (younger children
need help). (You can staple it but this helps children with
hand and eye coordination.) Paint (or color) both sides of the
pumpkin orange (or you can make orange finger prints on the
pumpkin). (You can paint a face if you like.) Make green
leaves and a brown stem out of construction paper (You can do this
ahead of time for younger children.) Glue the leaves onto the
sides of the stem and glue the stem under the top front of the pumpkin.
For older children:
Place words of the life cycle of a pumpkin inside the pumpkin (seed,
sprout, plant, flower, green pumpkin, orange pumpkin). Have the
child pull it out and say the word and place it in the correct order on
a table or the floor. You can have the child write down the
correct order that the pumpkin grows onto a piece of paper.
Craft Links / Pumpkin Pattern
Wright's
Classroom: Pumpkin Photo Holder You can use it as a photo holder or
just use the pumpkin pattern
in your school room.
Pumpkin Vocabulary List / Pumpkin Words
You can use some or all of these words (depending on the age of your
children/students).
seed; sprout; plant; flower; green; orange; pumpkin; big; small; round
Misc. Links
All
About Halloween Jack O'Lanterns and Pumpkin @ rats2u.com
Virtual Pumpkin Tour
Bottomley
Evergreens & Farms Virtual Farm Tour
History & Nutrition
Pumpkins
and More - Pumpkin History
The
Power of Pumpkin
Facts, recipes, and the nutrition of pumpkins.
Activities
Decorate a small pumpkin with washable kids markers or paint.
Carve a pumpkin.
Bowl with a small pumpkin (for the ball) and plastic bottles (for the
pins). (Take the stem off.)
Cooking & Snacks
Make pumpkin pie, bread, etc.
Cook some pumpkin and eat it.
See Pumpkin Recipes.
Music
Five
Little Pumpkins Felt Board Rhyme
Pumpkin
Carols
Pumpkin Poems and Songs @
dcrafts
Pumpkin
Songs
Pumpkin
Songs @ DLTK
Math and Phonics Activities
For each child, use a small pumpkin.
Estimate how many seeds are in a pumpkin.
Cut the pumpkin open. Count the seeds.
Letter
P & Pattern Activity You can color each one, cut, and laminate
so the child/ren can make patterns other times.
Make A Pumpkin
Pattern @ Bry-Back Manor
Pumpkin Printables
A
to Z Teacher Stuff: Pumpkin Life Cycle/Sequencing Lesson
(pdf) This uses the book: Pumpkin, Pumpkin by Jeanne
Titherington.
abcteach.com:
Halloween Theme Unit
abcteach.com:
October Themes
ABC Teacher:
Free Activity Pages
Alphabet
Pp is for Pumpkin Activities @ First-School Activities, coloring
pages, and patterns.
Coloring
Book Pumpkins
Bry-Back
Manor Activity Sheets Page 263-265: The Pumpkin Patch, Make A
Pumpkin Pattern, and Ms.
Pumpkinhead
Crayola
Pumpkin Pie Match
Folk
Art Pattern: Pumpkin
Free Printable Math
Worksheets: Halloween Themed @ KidZone Pumpkin
printables. Grades 1-5 (These can be used for other
grades too; depending on the child.)
KidsRCrafty:
Dot-to-Dots: Pumpkin A-Z and Pumpkin-Eater 1-10 (with the rhyme:
"Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater")
Log
Cabin Patchworks Pumpkin Pattern
Museums
in the Classroom Pumpkin Project Life cycle pattern, Pumpkin Patch
New Word Match, and
a pumpkin to color that has pumpkin related words.
PreschoolEducation.com:
File Folder: Pumpkin Patch Match
Preschool
Express: Pattern Station by Jean Warren Pumpkin patterns and
activities.
Thursday's
Classroom Coloring Book Three sizes of pumpkins.
Pumpkin Hand Crafts (Home
Economics)
123stitch-free:
Pumpkin Cross Stitch Pattern
Free Pattern
(Blackwork Pumpkin) @ Designs of Joy
Pattern
of the Day @ Neele Delights Plaid Pumpkin cross-stitch pattern
Activities and Lessons
Crazy
Pumpkin
Education
World: Pump Up the Curriculum With Pumpkins!
Eduplace.com:
TeacherViews Search for "pumpkin" to find the following activities
to go with these
books:
Grade 1: The Biggest Pumpkin Ever by Steven Kroll, It's Pumpkin Time by
Zoe Hall, and Pumpkin, Pumpkin by Jeanne Titherington
Grade 3: Pinky and Rex and the Perfect Pumpkin by James Howe
Estimating
With Pumpkin Seeds Math
Everything
ESL.net: Pumpkin Science Grades K-4. Including a worksheet.
Grade 2
- Integrated Lesson Plans
Hummingbird's
Holidays: Halloween Recipes, arts & crafts, circle time,
flannel board stories, make a pumpkin book, fill in a poem, stories,
finger plays, poems, and songs, math, bulletin boards, and more for
Halloween and Pumpkins & Spiders, and more.
Mr.
Donn Pages: Halloween
Lots of ideas on pumpkins; including links.
Museums
in the Classroom Pumpkin Project
Lesson
Notes Go down to Activity 2 - Art
Pro
Teacher Links
Pumpkin
Potpourri Including poems and activities.
Teachers.net:
Explore with Pumpkins
Teachers.net:
Pumpkin Investigations
Teachers.net:
Pumpkin, Pumpkin A cute idea for this book!
Pumpkin Recipes
Note: Some of these recipes call for alcoholic beverages, replace them
with water, broths, or other liquids.
Arielle's Recipe
Archives Look under breads, casseroles, desserts, vegetables, etc.
Beef Stew in a
Pumpkin from acorn-online.com
Beef
Stew in a Pumpkin Shell This is a popular hearty stew in Argentina.
Dinner in a
Pumpkin from thefamily.com
Jack-O-Lantern
Stew
Just
Vegetable Recipes: Pumpkin Recipes
KSL TV: Stew In
A Pumpkin
No
Bake Pumpkin Pie @ agintheclassroom
Pumpkin
and White Bean Soup Served in a Pumpkin Tureen
Pumpkin
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