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A Week’s Worth of Pumpkin Learning Activities

October 5, 2020 by Sheryl Cooper

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Inside: You can easily put together a week’s worth of pumpkin learning activities with these fun ideas for toddlers and preschoolers. Free printables included!

I recently shared how we like to kick off the fall season with the apple theme.

We had so much fun comparing and exploring different types of apples!

From there, we move on to our pumpkin theme.

I’ve put together a variety of ideas that you can add to your home activities or the classroom that build important skills.

Take a look!

A Week's Worth of Pumpkin Learning Activities

Make sure to check out these “A Week’s Worth” collections, too:

A Week’s Worth of Color Recognition Activities

A Week’s Worth of Shape Recognition Activities

A Week’s Worth of Alphabet Activities

A Week’s Worth of Apple Learning Activities

A Week’s Worth of Pumpkin Learning Activities

More ideas: The Ultimate Collection of Pumpkin Theme Activities

Art

Color-Mixing Pumpkins: Everything is done inside a bag! Comes with free pumpkin printable.

Spin Painted Pumpkins: Get our your salad spinner for this super fun idea. (Free pumpkin printable!)

Pumpkin Prints: What happens when you mix yellow and red on foil? A fun process art activity!

Fine Motor

Q-Tip Pumpkin Painting: Using Q-Tips is a great way to work on  fine motor skills, and this involves painting pumpkins!

Pumpkin Rubber Band Activity: This fun, no preparation activity gets those fingers moving. (The Imagination Tree)

Gross Motor

Pumpkin Shape Movement Game: Move around the room finding different shapes and adding them to pumpkins that are taped to the walls. (Toddler Approved)

STEAM

Fizzing Pumpkin Treasure Rocks: The chemical reaction between baking soda and vinegar reveals trinkets hiding inside. (Left Brain Craft Brain)

5 Little Pumpkins STEAM Science Experiment: Add some engineering to this fun finger play. (Preschool Powol Packets)

Science

Exploring Pumpkins: Cut open a pumpkin and explore what’s inside.

Literacy

Colorful Pumpkin Seed Names: Work on name recognition while sticking vibrant pumpkin seeds to the letters. (Fun a Day)

Alphabet Pumpkin Puzzles: Make your own puzzles using pumpkin paper shapes. (School Time Snippets)

Math

How Many Seeds?: Download the free printable cards and start counting pumpkin seeds.

Pumpkin Geoboard: Expand the traditional geoboard concept into a 3-dimensional math experience. (Fun-a-Day)

Sensory

Pumpkin Bath: Work on fine motor skills while having fun with water. (Busy Toddler)

Halloween Sensory Bin: Work on scooping and pouring skills with small pumpkins.

Colors 

Fine Motor Pumpkin Sorting: This activity combines sensory, math, and fine motor skills. (Fun a Day)

Pumpkin Seed Color Sorting: Dye pumpkin seeds and sort in colored bowls. (The OT Toolbox)

Playdough 

Pumpkin Pie Playdough: This easy recipe provides a perfect sensory fall experience, and works fine motor skills. (Artful Homemaking)

Parts of a Pumpkin Playdough Activity: DIY orange pumpkin-scented playdough recipe included. (Little Bins for Little Hands)

Science

Pumpkin Guts: Explore what’s inside a pumpkin without actually having to touch it. (Perfect for those who are touch sensitive.) (Stir the Wonder)

Pumpkin Skin Experiment: Compare how a pumpkin’s skin is like our skin. (Preschool Powol Packets)

Snacks/Cooking

Delicious Pumpkin Muffins: This recipe is so easy to make with young children!

Mini Pumpkin Pizzas: These cute pizzas only use 4 simple ingredients and are fun to make.

Music/Fingerplays

Fall Songs

Preschool Playlist October

A Week's Worth of Pumpkin Learning Activities

More fall fun:

Amazing Collection of Fall Fine Motor Activities

Fall Playdough Ideas

Thanksgiving Craft Ideas


 

🍎 Planning your fall theme? We’ve done the work for you! 🍎

 

We now have interactive thematic lesson plans for toddlers (18-36 months) AND preschoolers (3-5 years)!

 

Get ready for fun and learning with unit lesson plans for FALL. Explore a variety of themed hands-on activities!

 

Easy to follow lesson plans include activity modifications and adaptations to meet the needs of all learners.

 

For more information, click on the graphics below:

 

Toddler Lesson Plans Fall
Preschool Lesson Plans Fall

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About Sheryl Cooper

Sheryl Cooper is the founder of Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds, a website full of activities for toddlers and preschoolers. She has been teaching this age group for over 20 years and loves to share her passion with teachers, parents, grandparents, and anyone with young children in their lives.

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