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

When my daughter was younger I would spend a lot of time trying to come up with activities she could do in the car on long road trips and things to entertain her when we were waiting at restaurants and things that didn’t involve screens.

But it turns out there are a lot of great activities you can do with just a piece of paper and a pen.

What Do We Do All Day has a great collection of pen and paper games, including some that can be done with just one person, though they’re all more fun if you have at least two.

There are some classics on here like hangman and dots and boxes, but there are also quite a few I hadn’t heard of before.

I don’t want to spoil the whole list for you because you should definitely click over there and look around, but I will share about the one that you see pictured above.

This game is called Bridges, and you start by making the big random shape and the dividing it into a bunch of sections (the post says 30-50 sections is ideal but I think this one is smaller than that).

Each player gets their own color marker and you take turns drawing bridges from one space to another, crossing a third. Once there’s a bridge, no other bridges can start, end or cross in those spaces. Keep going until no more bridges can be built, and the person who makes the last bridge wins.

Check out the post over at What We Do All Day for more great ideas for no or almost-no prep games you can play with your kids or that kids can play together. I’d love to know if you have a favorite paper and pen game, whether it’s on this list or a different one.

[Photo: What We Do All Day]

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