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

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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