Pumpkin Flash Cards

Pumpkin Theme Activities for Kids.

Cut up paper into card shapes.

Write the number at the bottom and draw the appropriate number of stems.

Then let the kids thumbprint/finger print the corresponding amount of "pumpkins"

Once dry, laminate and use for anything!

We are going to use them for church...on the way, for quiet activities and for counting.

Simple easy and made by your toddler!

Pumpkin Books

Here are the books we are reading right now for this unit....

The Biggest Pumpkin Ever  by: Steven Kroll

It's Pumpkin Time    by:Zoe Hall

The Littlest Pumpkin    by: R.A. Herman

The Three Friends and the Pumpkins   by: Tomie dePaola (8 pages they are going to memorize)

From Seed to Pumpkin   by: Wendy Pfeffer
(my favorite)

We are also going to listen to Pumpkin Soup  by: Helen Cooper

And since I am catering to girls I couldn't resist Pinkalicious and the pink pumpkin    by: Victoria Kann

Life Cycle of a Pumpkin

Toddler Pumpkin Theme Ideas

Print this Life Cycle Chart

We cut this out then glued it in the right order.  Then we matched up the left over cards to our diagram.

The girls suddenly figured it all out, since we grew pumpkins in our yard this year and they remembered seeing each step.

Pumpkin Ideas

So far -
HERE is what we have done in the past.

The next 2 weeks will be devoted to pumpkins. :)

Thanks for the emails and comments!  We are expecting #5 and have had a bumpy road along the way. If you are the praying kind please keep our wee one and me in your prayers, at this point - anything will help. :)

See ya tomorrow!

Fun Halloween Snack

I couldn't resist making my kids something fun for snack.

You need an orange, a pretzel stick and a green airhead. Shown here...

Cut the airhead into a large triangle and then wrap around the pretzel. Stick it into the peeled orange.

Look! A pumpkin!  We added dried spiced cloves after this to make the eyes nose and mouth.

 

 But before we could do that we had to eat the candy! Haha.

It was a fun after school snack to get us into the Halloween Spirit!

Pumpkin Seeds

This one is easy but I am assuming no one has a recipe...

Carve pumpkins.

Here are the innards.

Wash the pulp away.

Mix in a bowl 1/4 cup melted butter, 2 TBS of seasoned salt OR 2 TBS cinnamon and sugar. Mix with the seeds.

Place on a greased cookie sheet and bake at 400 for 45 minutes.

Now my husband is happy. This kids are too I guess.

5 Little Pumpkins

Five little pumpkins sitting on a gate;

The first one said, "Oh my it's getting late."

The second one said, "There are witches in the air."

The third one said, "But we don't care.”

The fourth one said, "I'm ready for some fun!"

The fifth one said, "Let's run and run and run."

"Wooooooo" went the wind,

And out went the lights.

And the five little pumpkins rolled out of sight.

This is one of my favorite Halloween Songs/Poems. So we made a project out of it.

What we used...

Orange paint, Brown Paint, White Paper, Blue Cardstock, Yellow Cardstock, Brown Paper Bag.

We painted pumpkins on every kids hands...

I even did it with my 7 month old's hands.

Then you stamp that on the paper.

Repaint and Repeat 4 times so there is 5 pumpkins on the paper.

Let dry and then cut the outline out. With the paper bag cut a gate, a simple one.

With the Blue Cardstock cut it in half.

With the Yellow Cardstock cut the moon.

Then assemble the project.

Here they are finished.

On mine I made 2 with all 3 of my kids hand prints. So cute right?