Pumpkin Theme Resources

Inside: Toddler and preschool pumpkin theme resources – art, science, circle time, fine motor, playdough, dramatic play, and more!

During the second two weeks of October, I put together a pumpkin theme that ties in nicely with Halloween and harvest.

We also like to explore spiders, spider webs, and bats during this time.

This page shares activities we have done in past years, plus new activities we will try this year.

Toddler and Preschool Pumpkin Theme Resources

Please note that not all of these activities were done in my classroom, but instead done by the older preschoolers in our school. When choosing activities, keep in mind the learning levels of your students.

Pumpkin Theme Classroom Set Up Videos and Resources

• Preschool Pumpkin Lesson Plans
• Classroom Set Up
• Classroom Video Tour Year #1
• Classroom Video Tour Year #2
• Classroom Video Tour Year #3 (combined with Apple Theme)

Art

• Foldover Pumpkins – Use yellow and red paint for a color mixing experience to make orange. (Free Pumpkin Printable)
• Pumpkin Collage Art
• Pumpkin Seed Art
• 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.
• Spin-Art Pumpkins
• Pumpkin Prints
• Painting small pumpkins or gourds using jumbo cotton swabs.
• Painting pumpkins with corks. (Free Pumpkin Printable)
• Painting pumpkin paper with small pumpkins and gourds. (Free Pumpkin Printable)
• Pumpkin Masks Using Paper Plates and Jumbo Craft Sticks
• Tape Resist Spider Web with Painted Spiders (Free spider printable in this activity’s post.)

Sensory Bin

• Pumpkins and Orange Rice
• Filling Pumpkins with Water Using Droppers

Writing Table

• Pumpkin Left-to-Right Fine Motor Practice (from Pumpkin Activity Packet)
• Pumpkin Color Sheets (Free Printable)
• Halloween Color Sheets (Free Printable)

Playdough

Orange playdough and Pumpkin Cookie Cutters

Science

• Pumpkin Life Cycle (from Preschool Fall Activity Plans)
• Cleaning Out a Pumpkin

Dramatic Play

Pumpkin Patch Coffee Shop (from the Pumpkin Activity Pack)

Blocks

Spiders and Water Spout (See the sensory table version here.)

Circle Time

• Pumpkin Props (Free Printable)
• Bat Props (Fall Circle Time Packet)
• Spider Props (Free Printable)
• Itsy Bitsy Spider Activity (Free Printable)
• (3 and 4 Year Olds) 1-10 Pumpkin Counting (Fall Circle Time Packet)
• Pumpkin Matching (from the Pumpkin Activity Pack)

Music

• Five Little Pumpkins Jumping on the Bed (Free Printable)
• 5 Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate (Fall Circle Time Packet)
• The Itsy Bitsy Spider (Song & Rhyme Pack)

Our playlist:

 

Books

• The Itsy Bitsy Pumpkin
• Biscuit Visits the Pumpkin Patch
• Pop-Up Peekaboo Pumpkin
• Pete the Cat Five Little Pumpkins
• It’s Pumpkin Day, Mouse!
• Apples and Pumpkins
• From Seed to Pumpkin
• Pumpkin, Pumpkin

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.

Hammering Pumpkins

Easel

Pumpkin Shaped Paper

Light Table

Spider Web and Spiders

Table Activities

• Pumpkin Faces (from the Pumpkin Activity Pack)
• Pumpkin Counting (Dots on Pumpkins) (Fall Circle Time Packet)
• Fall Shapes Color Matching with Pom Poms (Fall Pom Pom Color Matching Packet)
• Pumpkin Color Match (from the Pumpkin Activity Pack)
• Bat Shape Matching (Fall Circle Time Packet)
• Pumpkin Numbers/Dots (Fall Circle Time Packet)
• (3 and 4 Year Olds) Pumpkin Seed Counting (Free Printable)
• Spider Web Counting (Free Printable)
• Bat Color Matching (Free Printable)
• Pumpkin Seed Counting (from the Pumpkin Activity Pack)
• Halloween Costume Matching Activity (freebie)

Shapes

• Dot Square Page (from the Dot Stamping Shapes Packet)
• Square Fine Motor Page (Free Printable)

Printable Packets We Used

• Dot Stamping Shapes
• Fall Themed Circle Time Props
• Fall Pom Pom Shapes
• Fall Tracing Shapes
• Pumpkin Activity Pack
• Song & Rhyme Props Pack
• Five Little Friends Jumping on the Bed