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 Group Time Activities *Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater Rhyme
Had a wife and couldn’t keep her. He put her in a pumpkin
shell And there he kept her very well. Five Little Pumpkins
The first one said “Oh
my it’s getting late.” The second one said “There
are witches in the air.”
The third one said “But we don’t care!” The forth
one said “I’m ready for some fun.”
Whooooo went the wind and out went the light. And the
five little pumpkins rolled out of sight.
 *Real
Pumpkin Sorting, get many different sizes of pumpkins and also different colors of pumpkins and let the children sort
by size and color of pumpkins. *Make
Pumpkin Pie let the children mix and make their own pumpkin pie. *Torn
Paper Pumpkins This is great for fine motor skills. Have children tear orange paper and glue to paper
to form a pumpkin. You can even give them black paper to tear so that they can make a face.
*Brown
bag pumpkins let the children pick a brown bag size of choice. Then have them crumple newspaper and
stuff their bag with the crumpled paper. Tie off bag with masking tape or yarn. Next
let the children paint their brown sack what ever color of fall. Let dry. If the children
want to add a face to it they can with items from the art area.
 *Splat
Paint Fill up old socks or old knee high nylons with pop corn cornels. Get out trays of paint so the
children can dip the socks into paint. Lay a large piece of butcher paper on the floor. Let
the children stand over the paper and drop the socks SPLAT. Now they have created their own splat paint
art. *Will
it sink or float? Do an experiment with the children and ask them if the pumpkin will sink or float?
Graph their answers. Get a rock and pumpkin that weigh about the same weight. Pass
each item around so that the children can feel them, and then ask them if the pumpkin will sink or float. When
done and they have discovered that the pumpkin will float cut the pumpkin in half and explain that the pumpkin float because
it is hollow side and air makes things float. Show them how you cannot cut open a rock and it is solid,
when things are solid they sink. *Pumpkin
Roll Will it roll like a ball? Roll a ball so the children can see how a ball rolls straight.
Then ask the children “Do you think the pumpkin will roll straight like the ball?” Roll
the pumpkin and see what happens. Dictate what the children say about the difference between the ball rolling
and the pumpkin rolling. *Measure
pumpkins, how round are they? Get a variety of pumpkins (tall and skinny, short and fat, mini, and giant pumpkins) Get
out measuring tapes and yarn, let the children measure how round the pumpkins are. Can they find the roundest
one? Let the children write their results. Dictate when needed.
*Weighing
Pumpkins, how much do they weigh? Get a variety of pumpkins (tall and skinny, short and fat, mini, and giant pumpkins)
Get out balancing scales and gage scales for the children to weigh the pumpkins on. Can they find the heaviest
pumpkin? Can they find the lightest pumpkin? Let the children write their results.
Dictate when needed.
Hands
on Science What is inside a pumpkin? Get several pumpkins and cut the tops off for the children,
let each child have a large soupspoon and plastic knife. Let the children scoop out the pumpkins feeling
the insides of it and smelling it. Have the children separate the seeds from the rest of the pumpkin.
Movement, Games and Activities Pumpkin Bowling Set up a set of plastic bowling pins and then let the children try to knock them over with a rolling pumpkin
instead of a bowling ball. See if the children find it to be harder with a pumpkin. Setting Up The Environment Block Area In the block area add: Mini pumpkins Block
people Tractors Mini hay bales Corn Feed (the kind you can find at a feed store)
Sand
and Water Table
Outside
Play Pumpkin Harvest Place
pumpkins around the play yard so that children can pretend that they are harvesting pumpkins. Have wheel
barrels out so the children can haul them around.
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