Pumpkin Printables for Kids

I covered a bunch of apple printables (as well as crafts and sensory activities) so now it’s time to talk pumpkins! If you ask me, pumpkins are a little more fun (probably because of the carving, let’s be honest) but they’re both great symbols of fall and the theme for many learning activities, so let’s dive in!

Simply Sprout Educate has a great printable for kids to use to record findings about a specific pumpkin such as its weight and diameter, as well as whether kids think it will float or sink and why, and whether its a fruit or a vegetable. Kids can do this activity alone or in pairs/small groups depending on how many pumpkins and measuring tools you have on hand.

Life Over Cs has a pumpkin investigation printable for younger kids that includes a lot of the same information as well as weather the pumpkin is big or small, smooth or bumpy, and a place to draw a picture.

Work on sequencing with younger kids by sorting the steps for carving a pumpkin with this printable from The Keeper of the Memories. Or you can build a paper jack o’lantern with the printable from Sunny Day Family.

Homemade Heather has a nice collection of pumpkin learning printables including the parts of a pumpkin, life cycle of a pumpkin, pumpkin facts and another float or sink experiment.

Homeschool Preschool has a great collection of pumpkin-themed printables, including tracing, graphing, puzzles, work with the letter P and more. There’s another fun printable pack at 1 Plus 1 Plus 1 Equals 1. It includes counting, shapes, letters, sorting and more.

And if you just need a simple and quick activity to fill time, grab this printable pumpkin pie maze from Let’s Do Puzzles and start looking forward to Thanksgiving! They also have a word search and other fun puzzles for kids if you need them.

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Human brains are pretty amazing, allowing us to think, feel, create, communicate, move and more. But humans aren’t the only animals with cool brains, as Crab Museum explains in the book The No-Brainer Brain Explainer (illustrated by Bruno Valasse).

This book, aimed at kids in grades 1-4, is colorful and silly but also educational about how brains actually work, with billions of neurons sending electrical and chemical signals around the body.

“Everything we think, feel and experience comes from an electrical relay race, with neurons passing chemical batons to each other,” the book says. “The constant chatter of billions of brain cells creates your entire world.”

The book compares the brains of mammals to those of crabs (the book is “written” by a crab after all) and notes that crabs have fewer neurons and of course are much smaller, but they have separate parts of their brains that control their eyes and their legs. Crabs are also capable of remembering things, using tools and solving puzzles.

Some animals’ brains allow them to know more about their world in different ways from humans, such as spiders being sensitive to vibrations in their webs and catfish having an amazing sense of taste, with taste sensors all over their bodies.

It notes that 95 percent of brain activity goes toward things we do unconsciously, like breathing, walking and catching a ball flying toward us. It also talks about dreams, memory, how our emotions try to predict the future, where brains came from and fun facts about brains. For example, did you know a sperm whale is believed to have the biggest brain of any creature that’s even lived? Their brains weigh 18 pounds, compared to just 2.5 pounds for humans.

Information on what creatures have the smallest brains, the toughest brains, the most brains and those who actually eat their own brains will delight kids (and maybe gross them out a little bit). They’ll also enjoy learning about the mycelium network of fungi, which is like a brain without a body, and slime molds, which are like a brain without a brain.

It ends talking about why human brains are so special because we’ve found ways to work together, communicate and build communities on a scale bigger than any other animal.

Kids and adults alike will enjoy this colorful, silly and informational book about brains!

About the book: 64 pages, hardcover. Published 2026 by Wide Eyed Editions. Suggested retail price $19.99.

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