With Halloween and Fall décor everywhere, it only makes sense to encourage your preschooler to learn and explore using pumpkin themed activities! This complete unit study icludes hands-on activities, science times, art, music and more all related around the pumpkin theme.
Pumpkin Themed Math Idea for Preschoolers
For math counting skills, use pumpkin seeds. They are large enough for a preschooler to handle easily, while not taking up too much space and becoming cumbersome. Introduce your preschooler to counting by two’s! Give them twenty pumpkin seeds (or only ten depending on their level of math knowledge) and have them pair the seeds up. There should be ten sets of two seeds when they finish. Show them how they can count – say “one” very quietly and then “TWO!” – “three” (whispered), and “FOUR!”.
Soon they will pick up on what you are doing and you can mouth the uneven number together and then say aloud the even number. As you repeat this exercise you soon will not have to say the other number at all, and your child will be counting by two’s and understand visually what that means.
Pre-K Pumpkin Music Idea
This is a pumpkin song for preschoolers that can be sung to the tune of “Have you Ever Seen a Lassie?”
Have you ever seen a pumpkin, a pumpkin, a pumpkin,
Have you ever seen a pumpkin, that grows on a vine?
A big one, a small one, a short one, a tall one.
Have you ever seen a pumpkin, that grows on a vine?
Pumpkin Science Idea for Preschoolers
Cover your preschooler in an art apron or plastic clothes guard and let them explore the inside of a pumpkin. Cut a generously large hole in the top of your pumpkin and let them kids dig around the seeds and pulp with cups and spoons and bowls. They will learn what the inside of a pumpkin is and the hands-on experience will be so memorable.
Pre-K Pumpkin Themed Art Lesson
Acrylic paint works well on pumpkins so your preschooler can decorate an intact, small-sized pumpkin by painting it in various colors and designs as they choose. Or, use a homemade clay to let your child sculpt his own pumpkin and paint it to look either more realistic, or to look artistic and colorful! Whichever activity you choose, pumpkins have a variety of possibilities for preschool art attempts.
Pumpkin Themed Food Idea for Preschoolers
What else except pumpkin muffins, pumpkin pie or roasted pumpkin seeds would do for a pumpkin themed lesson plan? Muffins are easy for a classroom situation since the serving sizes are pre-determined.
Pre-K Pumpkin Playtime Activities
If your town or community has a pumpkin patch, this makes an excellent field trip opportunity for preschoolers. Call ahead and find out if they can observe pumpkins actually growing on the vine. Some pumpkin farms will have display seedlings or vines to show children the large yellow blooms that become the pumpkins. Otherwise, running about and seeing the wide variety of pumpkin shapes, sizes and colors that are available, is a fun treat for any preschool child.
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