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.

Leif Erikson Day is celebrated on Oct. 9, and it’s a great time to learn more about the Vikings and why we still remember Erikson all these years later.

If you don’t know about Leif Erikson (sometimes spelled Eriksson), he’s believed to have been born in Iceland, and is considered the first European to set foot on continental America, more than 500 years before Christopher Columbus.

123 Homeschool 4 Me has a printable mini book about Leif Erikson and the Vikings for kids to read and color. It talks about who the Vikings were, what kind of ships they used, how they got to America and more. It’s a good overview for younger kids to use.

A good unit study is available from Simple Living Creative Learning, which includes a page where kids can write what they know, what they want to learn and what they learned through the unit, as well as information on the Vikings, longships, helmets, clothing and more.

Get a printable Viking unit study with reading passages, comprehension questions and other activities aimed at grades 4-8 from Creative Classroom Core at Teachers Pay Teachers. (And see more Vikings content from TPT here.)

Tina’s Dynamic Homeschool Plus has some great unit study ideas, too, including suggested books and videos. The post includes information about the Viking voyages, society, mythology and ships, as well as some vocabulary and a list of famous Vikings. While you’re over there also check out her free printable lapbook, which includes mini books on ships, a timeline, a Viking women coloring page, draw your own Vikings, geography, ancient runes and more.

Piqolo Kids has a lesson on Viking women with (available for purchase) worksheets about a day in the life of Viking women. Even if you don’t grab the printables there’s some good resources on that page and a link to a video on Viking women.

Learn how to draw a Viking ship with instructions from Drawing How to Draw, or grab Vikings coloring and labeling worksheets from Kids Puzzles and Games.

There’s a Leif Erikson Festival annually in Norway, Michigan, which you can learn more about here.

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