Pumpkin Themed Learning Activities

Now that it’s really almost officially fall it’s time to break out all the fall-related learning activities if you haven’t already. Check out this article on the best STEM gifts for kids.

I put a call out to some of my blogger friends for pumpkin-themed learning activities and I was actually surprised there was so much great stuff out there. Check out some of their great ideas!

Preschool Activities

Preschool Pumpkin Unit Study — Preschool Powol Packets

Five Little Pumpkins printable activity — Tot Schooling (also pumpkin shape matching)

Montessori Pumpkin Counting Cards — Wise Owl Factory

Montessori Pumpkin Washing Station — Natural Beach Living

Peter Pumpkin Eater Printables — Embark on the Journey

Pumpkin Books for Kids — Edventures with Kids

Pumpkin Fun Book Craft and Activities — Syncopated Mama

STEM Pumpkin Activities

Pumpkin Investigation Tray — Little Bins for Little Hands (also mini pumpkin volcanoes)

Life Cycle of a Pumpkin printable pack — Embark on the Journey

Hammering Nails Math Facts activity — There’s Just One Mommy (also do pumpkins sink or float and another take on pumpkin volcanoes)

5 Pumpkin Science Experiments for Kids — the Usual Mayhem

Measuring with Pumpkins — Rubber Boots and Elf Shoes (also pumpkin seed measuring and painting pumpkins)

More Pumpkin Learning Activities

Halloween Word Family Activity — Sight and Sound Reading (also color by letter worksheet)

Pumpkin Geoboard — Danya Banya

Pumpkin Math Pack — Embark on the Journey

Pumpkin Fairy House — the Usual Mayhem (also outside play ideas, pumpkin folk art and pumpkin painting)

Fall Letter Find — Planning Playtime ($3)

Pumpkin Unit with craft — Sallie Borrink ($7.49; also pumpkin fact cards, $2.99; print copywork, $2.99; cursive copywork, $2.99; and more pumpkin activity and learning ideas)

Check out more fall fun with these roundups:

Halloween Themed Printables for Kids

Bat Crafts and Learning Activities

Fall Learning Activities

Apple Learning Activities

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Pumpkin STEM Activities for Kids

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

[Photo: Mrs. Merry]

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