Pumpkins Theme UPDATED

Pumpkins Theme

Talk: Show pumpkins- ask about color? Show a couple options for size?-Today we are going to take a look in our stories about pumpkins and how they grow.

Read: Books-
How Big Could Your Pumpkin Grow? By Wendell Minor 

Pumpkin Day By Candice Ransom

It's Pumpkin Time By Zoe Hall

Pumply ,Dumply,
 

Pumpkin By Mary Serfozo

Pumpkin, Pumpkin By Jeanne Titherington
Pumpkin Time By Erzsi Deak

Too Many Pumpkins By Linda White

Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden By George Levenson
Penguin and Pumpkin By Salina Yoon

Pumpkin Day By Nancy Elzabeth Wallace 

From Seed to Pumpkin By Wendy Pfeffer 

Seed, sprout, pumpkin, pie By Jill Esbaum
Pumpkins By Erika Shore 
Apples and Pumpkins By Anne Rockwell 

Pumpkin Soup By Helen Cooper

How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin By Margaret McNamara
Biscuit Visits the Pumpkin Patch By

Alyssa Satin Capucilli
Pumpkin Trouble By Jan Thomas  
Duck and Goose: Find a Pumpkin By Tad Hills 

Pinkalicious and the pink pumpkin By Victoria Kann
Pumpkins By Ken Robbins
I like Pumpkins By Jerry Smath 

SING:

The Pumpkins Are Here - sung to "The Farmer in the Dell"
The pumpkins are here, the pumpkins are there.
The pumpkins, the pumpkins are everywhere.
The pumpkins are up, the pumpkins are down.
The pumpkins, the pumpkins are all around.
The pumpkins are in, the pumpkins are out.
The pumpkins, the pumpkins are all about.
The pumpkins are low, the pumpkins are high.
The pumpkins, the pumpkins all say good-bye!
~Submitted by Cheryl's Sweethearts ChildCare 

Pumpkin song - sung to "I'm a Little Teapot"
I'm a little pumpkin Orange and round.
Here is my stem,
There is the ground.
When I get all cut up,
Don't you shout!
Just open me up
And scoop me out!
~Submitted by Cheryl's Sweethearts ChildCare 

I'm a Little Pumpkin
~ adapted by KidsSoup
(Tune: I'm a Little Teapot)
I'm a little pumpkin,
orange and round.
I grow on a vine
from a seed in the ground.
When I get all grown up,
give me a face.
Put me outside,
in a very safe place.

Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater
Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater,
Had a wife but couldn't keep her,
Put her in a pumpkin shell,
And there he kept her very well.

Pumpkins
Pumpkin large
Pumpkin small
Pumpkin short
Pumpkin tall
Pumpkin orange
Pumpkin green
All are ready for Halloween!
 Rhymes Credit: Kidsoup

Have You Ever Seen a Pumpkin 

tune of "Have You Ever Seen a Lassie"

Have you ever seen a pumpkin, a pumpkin, a pumpkin,
Have you ever seen a pumpkin, that grows on a vine?
A round one, a tall one, a fat one, a small one.
Have you ever seen a pumpkin, that grows on a vine?
Credit DLTK holidays.com

 WRITE:  
P is for Pumpkin Color  and Trace Template Printable
P is for Pumpkin coloring sheet

Pumpkin Patch coloring sheet 

PLAY/ ACTIVITIES/ EXPLORE:

Math Activity:Measuring the Circumference of a pumpkin

 

Dissolving Candy Pumpkins Science 

mess free pumpkin guts exploration 

Pumpkin Investigation worksheet printable

Pumpkin Number Spin and Color Game printable 

Pumpkin shape matching game printable 

Pumpkin seed counting printable page 1 

Pumpkin seed counting printable page 2

 

CRAFT: Pumpkin 5 senses worksheet & Pumpkin coloring sheet for the tables

They kids can pick a pumpkin  to use for the 5 senses activity sheet (i used the small gourd type pumpkins)

Also, use a separate  pie pumpkin with top cut off to use for what does it feel inside like on the top. for follow the mess free pumpkin gut link above to create baggies with pumpkin guts.

The taste option on the handout I skipped- But you could talk about things made from pumpkin- bread, pie, cookies etc. You could also let them taste something made with pumpkin.

What's inside a pumpkin paper plate craft  

Torn Paper Pumpkin Craft 

Simple Pipe Cleaner Beaded Pumpkins 

Pom-pom pumpkin patch printable