Pumpkin Books for KindergartenWe've been reading pumpkin books for years, and these are the best of the best! Our list includes Pumpkin Circle, The Biggest Pumpkin Ever, Pumpkin Pumpkin, The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin, The Runaway Pumpkin, It's Pumpkin Day, Mouse, Big Pumpkin, We're Going On A Pumpkin Hunt, and Pumpkin Jack.  pumpkin craft and songFive Little Pumpkins Sitting On a Gate is our favorite song for pumpkin week! We create this little craft to go along with the rhyme! The picture below is my example; the kids are encouraged to add their own faces to their jack-o-lanterns.  
5 Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate Kindergarten Halloween Arts and Crafts Activity
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Copy moon sheet onto black paper. Students color moon with white crayon. Students cut out white fence pieces, and glue. Students color pumpkin stems brown, and cut and glue onto fence posts. Students draw faces on pumpkins. Students write names on line above pumpkins with white crayon. Our kindergarten arts and crafts are downloads you can print at home or school. Each craft includes a cover and a contents page, so you know exactly how to put pieces together. The only supplies you need are paper, scissors, glue, and crayons! Enjoy creating with the kids! Page 1: Cover Page 2: Krazy for Kindyland Note Page 3: Product Details Page 4: Example Page 5: Fence and Moon sheet (to be copied on black) Pages 6: Fence Pieces Page 7: Pumpkins (2 sets) **Before purchasing individual products from us, be sure to check out our Discounted Bundles! Note: The cover of Krazy for Kindyland products includes exact JPEG(s) of included craft(s). Our Full site is available at https://krazyforkindyland.com/</a> What our customers are saying about our products: -provide engaging, hands-on fine-motor practice while learning across the curriculum -easily differentiated, based on student needs and allow room for teacher choice -include consistent layouts; easy for students to understand -low prep and a huge time saver; GREAT for subs Questions? Requests? Email us at [email protected] Pumpkin Stem ActivityThe kids rotate to create 5 little spooky things sitting on a gate! I love seeing their unique ideas with the manipulatives they receive!   pumpkin morning workThe kids and I BOTH love using our NO PREP Craft Packs throughout our themes. It is AMAZING to see their fine motor skills improve from week to week! A little example of the craft is in each corner of the craft packets, so kids just make their choice and get to work! They're simple and sweet, and the kids get to take ownership of decorating our room for every theme. They're so proud!  
Pumpkin Patch NO PREP Craft Pack (Pie, Donut, Gourd, Seeds)
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As you implement pumpkin lessons and teach students about pumpkin foods and the pumpkin patch, students practice fine motor and visual-spatial skills with craft activities! This printable pack includes crafts for all items pictured on the cover and is perfect for morning work, center time, indoor recess, writing prompts, or fast finisher work! Preschool, kindergarten, and first grade students enjoy both coloring and painting our crafts, which feature thick lines. An example of each craft is provided in the corner of each sheet to simplify directions. Pieces for each craft are included on one page for efficiency in printing and paper saving! Contents: Page 1: Cover Pages 2, 3: Product Details Page 4: seeds Page 5: pie Page 6: pumpkin stack Page 7: gourd (green) Page 8: bread Page 9: wagon Page 10: gourd (tan) Page 11: donut Page 12: pumpkin Page 13: slice of pie Be sure to check out our DISCOUNTED BUNDLES prior to purchasing individual products. Note: The cover of Krazy for Kindyland products includes exact JPEG(s) of included craft(s). What our customers are saying about our products: -provides engaging, hands-on fine-motor practice while learning across the curriculum -easily differentiated kindergarten activities, based on student needs and also allows room for teacher choice -includes consistent layouts; easy for students to understand -low prep and a huge time saver; GREAT for subs Questions? Requests? Email us at [email protected] pumpkin scienceThis pumpkin science activity is my favorite! When the kids reach into the pumpkin to take out some seeds, the sensory experience is sure to provide this teacher with belly laughs! Students gather a few seeds to place in a bag and take home.  I admit, the kids only take out minimal seeds, so I scrape out the rest to provide them with a visual of what the inside of the pumpkin consists of, including some pulp.  After some hesitation, the kids are thrilled to get their hands on the ooey gooey pumpkin pulp during discover centers!  Pumpkin Life Cycle Anchor ChartIn our kindergarten science lessons, anchor charts are always a part of our learning routines, as creating visuals is an effective way for students to learn the information about the topic of the week. For pumpkin week, we study the life cycle. Using this anchor chart, we act out each part of the pumpkin life cycle. -seed (Get low to the ground, and wrap your arms around your legs. Then we pretend to put water on our heads, along with making the sun's rays come down.) -sprout (We pop up, holding our hands up, close to our bodies.) -vine (We spread our arms out as we wiggle them.) -flower (Pop your hands open and closed in front of you.) -green pumpkin (Keep one hand popped open for the flower, and make a fist behind it to represent the little green pumpkin.) -pumpkin (Put your fingertips together, making a circular shape, and make it get bigger and bigger above your head.) -Carve it into a jack-o-lantern! (While holding your hands above your head, make a silly face!) -Rot into the ground. (Make your body go limp.) Start all over! We LOVE to act out this anchor chart over and over again throughout the week! I love that the information sticks with the kids!!!  Here's an updated pumpkin anchor chart, digitalized just for you!Pumpkin Life Cylce Craft ActivityAfter reviewing the pumpkin life cycle throughout the week, students complete their morning work crafting project on fun Friday. Starting a craft first thing is a simple strategy for getting students busy upon arrival while also saving so much time for learning once the day begins! The routine is that they cut out the pieces, but they do not glue them together. They place each of the pieces under their boxes as they cut them out. For this activity, I provided pieces for steps 1-3 in their table caddies for morning work. By the time our day started, everyone had completed the process, and we could start right in with coloring step 4 together. We glued the projects all at the same time, step-by-step. This is such a smooth process, and it's a fun way to begin our day together!  Below is a picture of our completed pumpkin life cycle craft, along with some must-reads for pumpkin week!  
Pumpkin Life Cycle Arts and Crafts for Kindergarten Science Lesson Activity
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As you study the life cycle of a pumpkin this Fall, create this adorable little jack-o-lantern craft! This craft might be created as a part of a whole group lesson or completed at a science center! Check out the PREVIEW option on this page to get a glimpse of how the craft turned out in our classroom! Students color life cycle pieces. Explain that after pumpkins turn green, they turn into large orange pumpkins, and people cut faces into the pumpkins to create a jack-o-lanterns. Students color and cut out life cycle pieces, and glue them onto the green rectangle. Complete craft. Boys add a bow tie, while girls add a bow to the top of the pumpkin. Display for a sweet little Fall bulletin board! Our kindergarten arts and crafts are downloads you can print at home or school. Each craft includes a cover and a contents page, so you know exactly how to put pieces together. The only supplies you need are paper, scissors, glue, and crayons! Enjoy creating with the kids! Page 1: Cover Page 2: Krazy for Kindyland Note Page 3: Product Details Page 4: Example Page 5: Eyes, Three Life Cycle Pieces Page 6: Grass Page 8: Stem (4) Page 9: Bow (4) Page 10: Pumpkin Color cheeks pink. Books that are great to accompany this craft include, but are certainly not limited to the following: It's Pumpkin Time! It's Pumpkin Day, Mouse! Runaway Pumpkin! The Biggest Pumpkin Ever Pumpkin Jack Pumpkin Town Pumpkin Soup Pumpkin Circle Pumpkin Pumpkin Note: The cover of Krazy for Kindyland products includes exact JPEG(s) of included craft(s). Our Full site is available at https://krazyforkindyland.com/</a> What our customers are saying about our products: -provide engaging, hands-on fine-motor practice while learning across the curriculum -easily differentiated, based on student needs and allow room for teacher choice -include consistent layouts; easy for students to understand -low prep and a huge time saver; GREAT for subs Questions? Requests? Email us at [email protected] Here's another pumpkin life cycle craft I've done with my class!  pumpkin mathTo celebrate pumpkin week with our kindergarten math activities, we practice number identification and counting with this candy corn craft! Students are given a number and a candy corn sheet, and they cut out that many pieces of candy to glue inside of their candy dishes. This activity works well at a math center, too.  Another math activity we enjoy is this super simple partner math game. Students practice dice number recognition and counting. Each student gets a witch's pot, clothespin, die, and a bag of 20 spiders. They take turns rolling their die and placing that many spiders in their pot. They use the clothespin to pick up the spiders for extra fine motor practice. The student who runs out of spiders first wins.  This pumpkin seed activity was another math time hit! We count the number of school days using 10 frames every morning, so I was hopeful the kiddos would pick up on this activity. We focused on five on top and five below, and the kids did awesome! It’s incredible to watch them learn and grow!  
Pumpkin Craft, Ten Frame Addition Activity: Fall, Autumn, Halloween Center
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This Fall, practice addition as you color pumpkin seeds green and brown to complete a number sentence (to 10) during math centers or a whole-group lesson in preschool, kindergarten, or first grade math lesson. Differentiated options are provided for the frames, including ten frames with multiple choices for number sentences. A blank number sentence is included as well. Color leaves on the tree and create a ten frame to match! Cut, color, and glue pieces of our printable craft for a fun fine motor and visual-spatial activity to create a fun Autumn bulletin board display! Two cutting options are included to best meet the needs of your little learners! Contents: Page 1: Cover Pages 2,3 : Product Details Page 4: pumpkin (option 1) Page 5: pumpkin (option 2) Page 6: inside of pumpkin (2) (option 2) Page 7: stem (4) (option 2) Pages 8-13: ten frame options Be sure to check out our DISCOUNTED BUNDLES prior to purchasing individual products. Note: The cover of Krazy for Kindyland products includes exact JPEG(s) of included craft(s). What our customers are saying about our products: -provides engaging, hands-on fine-motor practice while learning across the curriculum -easily differentiated kindergarten activities, based on student needs and also allows room for teacher choice -includes consistent layouts; easy for students to understand -low prep and a huge time saver; GREAT for subs Questions? Requests? Email us at [email protected] Another fun pumpkin craft is to count the candy in the pumpkin pail with this decomposing activity!  
Pumpkin Candy Pail Craft, Five Frame Addition Activity: Fall, Halloween Center
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This Halloween, practice addition as you color candy purple and green to complete a number sentence (to 5) during math centers or a whole-group lesson in preschool, kindergarten, or first grade math lesson. Color the candy, and create a five frame to match! Cut, color, and glue pieces of our printable craft for a fun fine motor and visual-spatial activity to create a fun Fall bulletin board display! Two cutting options are included to best meet the needs of your little learners! Contents: Page 1: Cover Pages 2,3 : Product Details Page 4: pumpkin candy pail (option 1) Page 5: pumpkin candy pail (option 2) Page 6: handle (2) (option 2) Page 7: two eyes, candy set (2 sets) (option 2) Page 8: five frames (3) Be sure to check out our DISCOUNTED BUNDLES prior to purchasing individual products. Note: The cover of Krazy for Kindyland products includes exact JPEG(s) of included craft(s). What our customers are saying about our products: -provides engaging, hands-on fine-motor practice while learning across the curriculum -easily differentiated kindergarten activities, based on student needs and also allows room for teacher choice -includes consistent layouts; easy for students to understand -low prep and a huge time saver; GREAT for subs Questions? Requests? Email us at [email protected] Of course, we can't have pumpkin week without reading Spookley, the Square Pumpkin! This pumpkin shape craft is the perfect follow--up!  
Shape Pumpkin Craft Activity: Math and Writing (Jack-o-Lantern, Halloween, Fall)
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As you learn about pumpkins, incorporate this printable shape craft during your preschool, kindergarten, or first grade math lesson or math center. Two craft options are included to best meet the needs of your little learners. This craft pack covers writing when students complete the fill-in sheet. Attach shape pumpkins to tops of fill-in sheets for a fun Fall bulletin board display! Contents: Page 1: Cover Pages 2, 3: Product Details Pages 4-11: NO prep pumpkins: square, hexagon, rectangle, circle, oval, triangle rhombus, trapezoid Page 12: two eyes (3 sets) (option 2) Page 13: two cheeks (6 sets) (option 2) Page 14: stem (6) (option 2) Page 15: vine (6) (option 2) Pages 16-24: pumpkins with mouths(option 2) Page 25: boy fill-in sheet (2) His shape is a ___. His color is ___. His name is ___. Page 26: girl fill-in sheet (2) Her shape is a ___. Her color is ___. Her name is ___. Books that are great to accompany this craft include, but are certainly not limited to the following: Spookley, the Square Pumpkin It's Pumpkin Time! It's Pumpkin Day, Mouse! Runaway Pumpkin! The Biggest Pumpkin Ever Pumpkin Jack Pumpkin Town Pumpkin Soup Pumpkin Circle Pumpkin Pumpkin Be sure to check out our DISCOUNTED BUNDLES prior to purchasing individual products. Note: The cover of Krazy for Kindyland products includes exact JPEG(s) of included craft(s). What our customers are saying about our products: -provides engaging, hands-on fine-motor practice while learning across the curriculum -easily differentiated kindergarten activities, based on student needs and also allows room for teacher choice -includes consistent layouts; easy for students to understand -low prep and a huge time saver; GREAT for subs Questions? Requests? Email us at [email protected] Pumpkin ArtOur kindergarten arts and crafts activity for pumpkin week includes creating a class pumpkin patch. To get started, students are given the following materials: -small white paper (eyes) -small brown paper (stem -small green rectangle (leaf) -green strip (vine) -large orange paper (pumpkin)  Since we read about Spookley and friends earlier in the week, we make a connection to drawing different shapes for our pumpkin features. I love that we can tie in math activities with our art lessons! Here is the visual I create step-by-step for the students, while encouraging them to draw shapes of their own choice. I project the papers on the board and draw the variety of shapes on top with a dry erase marker to give them clear visual directions. Then I cut my own pieces, and we glue together as we go. Students are instructed to use crayons to draw eyeballs, and I draw a variety of faces on the board for them to choose from, too.  We read We're Going on a Pumpkin Hunt and students create their own pumpkin patch!  They really are the SWEETEST little pumpkins in the patch! (Side note: This Land of Make Believe banner was given to me by a teacher friend who knows of our rainbow-themed classroom, and the statement is just SO fitting for us! We pretend every single day throughout our learning! LOVE!!! LOVE!! LOVE!!)  Another pumpkin craftThis little pumpkin stack makes an adorable locker decoration for adding a festive Fall flair to our classroom, and it's available exclusively in our TpT store. Just click the photo below to access it.  Pumpkin Pie taste TestNow, back to the classroom! We end our pumpkin week with a celebration by having a pumpkin pie taste test! The pumpkin fairy visits while the students are at specials to prepare the big event. (Students' families provide the items, and I'm just so incredibly grateful for their generosity with our learning activities!)  We talk about using good manners if we didn’t prefer something, and the kiddos do a great job politely taking care of their plates if they didn’t want to eat it all.  Then they line up at the voting poll, voted, and place their ballots in the box. When everyone was finished eating and voting, we pull the ballots out and record the results on our graphs.   We complete the poll part of this activity pack now, and we use the rest of the packet when we study shapes during our Thanksgiving theme! 
Pumpkin Pie Voting, Shape Craft, Graph, Counting: Halloween, Thanksgiving
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As you learn about Fall and Thanksgiving traditions, incorporate this printable shape craft during your preschool, kindergarten, or first grade math lesson or math center. Practice shape identification, graphing, counting, and writing numbers with included activities. Creating this craft also allows for the opportunity to work on fine motor and visual-spatial skills. Students count shapes on the craft, and complete chosen activity sheets. Three craft options are included to best meet the needs of your little learners. Create the crafts, and tape the activity sheet(s) of choice to the bottom of the crafts for display! For additional fun, have students try pumpkin pie! Once they do a taste test, student complete a voting card. Project the poll as you count the results. Students might complete the graph with you, too! Contents: Page 1: Cover Pages 2, 3: Product Details Page 4: pie (option 1) Page 5: pie, whip cream, plate (option 2) Page 6: plate (2) (option 3) Page 7: crust (2) (option 3) Page 8: pie (2) (option 3) Page 9: whip cream (15) (option 3) Page 10: graphing sheet Page 11: counting sheet Page 12: pumpkin poll voting cards Page 13: pumpkin poll graphing Be sure to check out our DISCOUNTED BUNDLES prior to purchasing individual products. Note: The cover of Krazy for Kindyland products includes exact JPEG(s) of included craft(s). What our customers are saying about our products: -provides engaging, hands-on fine-motor practice while learning across the curriculum -easily differentiated kindergarten activities, based on student needs and also allows room for teacher choice -includes consistent layouts; easy for students to understand -low prep and a huge time saver; GREAT for subs Questions? Requests? Email us at [email protected] Pumpkin Fine Motor ActivityThis spider web pumpkin is a great fine motor challenge for kindergarten kids! Just tape a piece of yarn to the back of the plate and cut slits in the pate. Near the end, kids pop a spider ring on the yarn. Then I tape the end of the yarn to the back again. The kids use liquid glue to add the vine and stem. BONUS: They twirl the vine around their pencils for even MORE fine motor fun!  Red Ribbon Week Door ContestOur school participates in decorating our doors for Red Ribbon Week. This year, the kids' spider web pumpkins were the perfect door addition!  Pumpkin Carving in the ClassroomWhile the kids are at lunch and specials, I carve a pumpkin! One year, I carved a spider for letter Ss week! The kiddos get so excited to watch the progression throughout the day!  Pumpkin PaintingThis year, we created a beautiful class pumpkin by painting together! This tradition is here to stay!  I can't write a pumpkin blog post without including a few of our at-home pumpkin activities. We paint pumpkins every year, and below is a photo from a few years back. I just love it because we had a baby in the house who participated with a painted foot!  I just really love painted feet, so I wanted to capture this moment with a fall keepsake, too!  More Pumpkin Craft ActivitiesHappy pumpkin week, friends! If you're feeling inspired, explore all of our pumpkin activities, including multiple DISCOUNTED craft bundles, by clicking the picture below: Looking for More?Krazy for Kindyland has a lot more to share with you to make learning MAGICAL in your classroom! We have a lot of resources to make your planning super simple for across the curriculum this Fall! OR head straight to our shop to find thematic resources for math, writing, reading, science, and social studies! Print and go!October Freebie!Are you a Krazy for Kindyland Subscriber? As soon as you subscribe, you the subscriber password is emailed to you! You instantly gain access to our FREE Activity! 
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