Pumpkin Crafts for Kids

It’s been a while since I’ve done any pumpkin related content (though there’s been a lot in the past including crafts, STEM activities, sensory ideas and even pumpkin printables!) so let’s explore some more pumpkin craft ideas for kids.

Tearing paper is a great fine motor skill practice for little kids. Add in gluing, too, and this torn paper pumpkin from Little Ladoo is not only cute but building skills your little one needs. How great is that?

You can tear or cut the tissue paper you use to “paint” these mini pumpkins. Stay at Home Educator has this DIY, which is a cute alternative to painting pumpkins with a little less mess.

These easy glowing jack o’lanterns are a fun project for kids of all ages. Start with a clear plastic cup and you’ll have a bunch of glowing pumpkins in no time. Get the tutorial from Buggy and Buddy.

Make a couple of paper plates into a jack o’ lantern lit with an LED candle with this cute idea from Easy Peasy and Fun. You may already have the supplies you need for this one. Little kids can draw the face and have an adult cut it out for them.

I think kids of a variety of ages would also like this jack o’ lantern monoprint project from Kitchen Table Classroom. Monoprint sounds complicated but you just need paint and some kind of smooth, flat surface to work with and you’ll be printing pumpkins in no time!

A great one for the classroom that can be used as decoration is this goofy pumpkins art project from Mme Marissa. She shows the results from both kindergarten and a grade 2/3 classroom, so it’s great fun for everyone.

Crafters (and probably others) know that apples and pumpkins can look similar as creative motifs, and this project from In the Kids Kitchen takes that observation literally by using an apple to stamp a pumpkin shape. It’s so cute and easy, and if you cut the apples ahead even little kids can do it.

I did a post earlier this year with activities and ideas for teaching the alphabet, but a lot or learning letters and recognizing them just has to do with seeing them and working with them a lot.

That means coloring, tracing, identifying things that start with different letters and more.

One way to reinforce the letters is through little activity books like these cute printable alphabet books from Life Over Cs.

These are available for free when you subscribe to her newsletter, and I’d say that’s well worth it if you have a little one (or a group of little ones!) working on the alphabet and letter recognition.

Each mini book includes a collection of things that start with that letter to color, color and read with words that start with the letter, tracing the letter, finding the letter in a grid and other coloring pages with objects that start with that letter.

These little books are super useful reinforcing the different letters and giving kids different activities related to the letters.

If you do a letter of the day or letter of the week you can use a new book for each one, and then keep the copies in your reading center or in a basket where kids can look at them again.

And of course you can add in all the other letter activities you like, go on a scavenger hunt for items that start with that letter, read alphabet books, practice writing letters in rice or with pompoms or playdough or whatever sensory activities you like.

You can grab the free printables when you enter you email address at Life Over Cs, and check out her other great alphabet resources and activities while you are over there.

Do you have favorite activities for teaching letters to kids? I’d love to hear about them!

[Photo: Life Over Cs]

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