Apples and Pumpkins Theme Ideas for 2022

Last Updated on October 24, 2022 by Sheryl Cooper

Inside: Toddler and Preschool Apples and Pumpkins Theme Ideas – Activities, Songs, Printables, and More!

Here are our plans for the apples and pumpkins theme. Please note that some of this might change as I get closer to the date, or even during the weeks of this theme. I will try to adjust as this happens.

The apples and pumpkins theme is planned for weeks 3 and 4 of October.

I share a classroom with the 3 and 4 year olds, so some of these activities might be for that class rather than mine. If so, I will note it. Also, we might not do all of the activities that are listed. Feel free to pick and choose for your classroom as well. (This is especially so with this theme – I have a lot of activities but will picking and choosing which ones I feel our children are ready for once the theme is set up.)

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Toddler and Preschool Apples and Pumpkins Theme Ideas

Art

Cardboard Apple Collage (Free Apple Outline)
A is for Apple Painting (Using printable from the Toddler Activity Plans Fall Packet)
Foldover Pumpkins – Use yellow and red paint for a color mixing experience to make orange. (Free Pumpkin Printable)
Oil Pastel Resist Pumpkins – Draw patterns on pumpkin paper using oil pastels and then paint over them using watercolor paint. Can use pumpkin printable for outline. (Free Pumpkin Printable) – Idea from Fun Painting Projects for Kids.

Sensory Bin

Pumpkins and Apples
Washing Pumpkins (Water Bin)

Writing Table

Pumpkin Left-to-Right Fine Motor Practice (from Pumpkin Activity Packet)
Pumpkin Color Sheets (Free Printable)
Halloween Color Sheets (Free Printable)
Put the Apples on the Tree -Using Dot Markers (Free Printable)
Apple Printable
Apple Word/Shape Tracing Page (from our Fall Tracing Shapes & Words Packet)

Playdough

Week 1: Red Playdough and Apple Cookie Cutters

Week 2: Mix red and yellow play dough to make orange.

Science

Week 1: Apple Life Cycle (from Preschool Fall Activity Plans)
What Color is Your Apple? Children can bring an apple from home and place it on the same colored card. (Free Printable)
Week 2: Pumpkin Life Cycle (from Preschool Fall Activity Plans)

Dramatic Play

Coffee Shop (from the Pumpkin Activity Pack)

Blocks

Trains, Animals, Assorted Blocks

Circle Time

Pumpkin Props (Free Printable)

Bat Props (Fall Circle Time Packet)

Spider Props (Free Printable)

Itsy Bitsy Spider Activity (Free Printable)

Apple Props (Free Printable)

Way Up High In The Apple Tree (from the Song & Rhymes Props Pack Vol. 2)

(3 and 4 Year Olds) 1-10 Pumpkin Counting (Fall Circle Time Packet )

Apple Pom Pom Color Matching – can also be used as a table activity (Apple Activity Packet)

Pumpkin Matching (from the Pumpkin Activity Pack )

Pumpkin Seed Counting (from the Pumpkin Activity Pack )

Halloween Costume Matching Activity (freebie)

Music

Five Little Pumpkins Jumping on the Bed (Free Printable)

Way Up High in the Apple Tree (from the Song & Rhyme Pack Vol. 2)

5 Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate (Fall Circle Time Packet )

The Itsy Bitsy Spider (Song & Rhyme Pack)

Our playlist:

Fine Motor

Sticky Wall Spider Web: Place contact paper on magnetic white board and give children spiders to press on top, as well as pieces of black yarn to make spider webs.