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Nothing falls like a pumpkin! This beloved orange gourd shines like a garnish, dessert, and Jack-O’lantern Art. But how do you bring Halloween’s favorite pumpkin into the classroom?
Beyond Pumpkin Patch Field Trips and Holiday Bulletin Boards – Pumpkins can be powerful tools for learning. Add these pumpkin activities to your STEM, Ela, math and art lessons to inspire creativity and engaging learning.
Have your class draw pumpkin worksheets
Preschoolers love pumpkins, so provide the excitement of pumpkin activities for 3- and 4-year-old preschool classes, UPK rooms, or even fall kindergarten classes. Whether it’s a worksheet or a center activity, pumpkin activities for preschool bring into the classroom.
Pumpkin Activities and Crafts for Preschool | Pumpkin Worksheets, Centers and Fine Motors
by planning playtime
Grade: Prek-K
This preschool power pack includes 15 worksheets and 16 activity centers covering letter matching, counting, shapes and crafting. These activities and centers are suitable for morning tubs and groups. Worksheets can be easily printed on a sub-date.
stand out Spookley square pumpkin reading companion
Spookley square pumpkin Bring seasonal excitement to your literacy skills. With reading comprehension units built around this children’s book, you can encounter CCSS in reading literature while making lessons festive and engaging.
Spookley Squared Pumpkin – Reading Comprehension Lessons and Activities
Smorgasboard by Kindergarten
Level: PreK-1
Standard: CCSSRL.K.1, RL.K.2, RL.K.3
This bundle is filled with resources covering basic comprehension skills including prediction, story mapping, retelling, characterization and sequencing. You’ll also find instructions for art projects, writing prompts, rubrics, recording sheets, and ready-made comprehension questions.
Encourage ELA to participate in pumpkin activities
Fall activities for kids that go beyond science and STEM. Pumpkin can also be integrated into the ELA channel. You can use it as part of a group or as a ringtone.
Use context clues: Pumpkin
Hello fifth
Grade: third place
Help students strengthen close reading skills with pumpkin-themed passages and context clue-themed passages. The activity includes an answer key and context-based questions to support guidance.
Get creative with pumpkin coloring activities
Through colorful activities, students combine competition and practice. Each dice roll helps them with number recognition and following instructions, making this pumpkin activity for kindergarten perfect for center or small group learning.
Scroll and Draw Free Halloween Coloring Boat Visual Perception Skills Activity
By CreativeCota LLC
Grade: K-1
Standard: ccssk.cc.a.3; K.CC.B.4, B.4A
This free eight-page PDF resource includes easy-to-follow directions for the rolling pumpkin activity, as well as a color page. The use of fine motor skills and visual perception makes it ideal for special education and occupational therapy classes.
Fall in love with pumpkin art
Whether used as a fall art project or a fun brain break, students will love this creative pumpkin activity.
Yayoi Kusama Dot Sugpkins: Fall Art Class with Infinity Nets and Timelines
Expressive Monkey – the art teacher’s little helper
Grade: 2nd place
Make every day in October exciting with this 30-page bundle. Teachers are given instructions, drawing guides, templates, activities to print and do, coloring samples and pages, and different levels to keep each student engaged and challenged.
Tackle a pumpkin-themed escape room
Give math a new twist with this rounding activity in which students “escape”. This math escape room works great as a first challenge or a fun Friday math game.
4th Grade Place Value and Circle Numbers Escape Room Fall/Pumpkin Themed
Escape in the great classroom
Grade: third place
Standard: CCSS 4.NBT.A.1, A.2, A.3
Unlock the fun with a quick start guide, detailed instructions, Google Form access, printable case files, and a handy QR code for quick and easy use. These puzzles focus on rounding, recognizing place values and solving rounding challenges.
Turn your pumpkin event into a stem celebration
Halloween, pumpkins and stems – oh my! While pumpkins may bring to mind Jack-o-lanterns and stimulating fun, they also open the door to hands-on engineering and problem-solving activities with pumpkin stem activities.
Halloween Stem Challenges and Activities (October) Pumpkin Catapult, Candy Tower
Brooke Brown – Teaching from outside the box
Grade: K-5
This fall, STEM is taken to the next level with three fun challenges: Pumpkin Catapult, Candy Tower, and Spider Web Bridge. Each activity is accompanied by a lesson plan, slides, student instructions, rubrics, and supply list.
Discover the science of pumpkins
Pumpkins may brighten your classroom windows, but their real magic lies in biology. Use the NGSS Plant Observation Standards to guide students in exploring the science that makes pumpkins, pumpkins.
Fall or Fall Science Activities | Pumpkin Numbers Flipbook Google™ Slides
gems by school of jewelry
Grade: 2nd place
Using Google Slides and the Pumpkin Translator book, students explore the parts, storage, and growth of pumpkins. They can also define the different parts of the pumpkin and write descriptions using digital notes.
Dive into the life cycle of a pumpkin
Life cycles are a core concept in basic science, and fall provides the opportunity to explore it through pumpkins. From growth to decay, pumpkins offer a hands-on way to study how living things change over time. You can build your entire October science curriculum around the life of a pumpkin.
Pumpkin life cycle unit
Fulkin 4th
Grade: 1-4th
Standard: CCSS.RI.K.7, RI.1.7, RI.2.7, RI.3.7, RI.4.3
This comprehensive bundle includes science notes, vocabulary cards, graphic organizers, diagrams, flow charts, and engaging activities. There are 27 pages of resources that work well as a cross-curricular activity for science and ELA.
Stimulate interest in scientific method
Need an effective pumpkin activity for science centers or inquiry-based learning? This week’s exploration of the gourd offers hands-on discovery and engaging scientific investigation.
Experiment with pumpkins! Explore the science department of pumpkins
Market by Mr. Mault
Grade: third place
Standard: NGSS 3-5-ETS1-1, 1-2, 1-3
This bundle includes daily activities, data tables, analysis pages, and measurement exercises. Suitable for all learner levels, it bridges the scientific method by guiding students through predictions, hypotheses, and data collection.
A bit creepy
Combine the fun of pumpkin carving with the fun of hands-on learning about exothermic reactions. Students explore catalysts and scientific theories through Halloween-themed activities.
Pumpkin Oozing Challenge
By Joey Labs
Level: No specific level
This resource is designed as a 45-minute activity and includes a four-page PDF file. It provides teachers with everything they need to understand and complete experiments.
spin to autumn
Fun Friday game requires a spinner to keep things moving! Have students create their own pumpkin spinners and brainstorm games instead of starting with a ready-made game.
Clip Art ~ Pumpkin Spinner for Fall and Halloween
Kara’s Creative Playground
Level: No specific level
This seven-page PDF project includes 16 color and line spinner graphic sheets with spaces from one to eight. Images created as vector files can be enlarged to any size and printed multiple times without losing quality.
Try an easy pumpkin activity for low-prep fun
Pumpkin activities for kids don’t have to be time-consuming. When you have some downtime in class, try a quick and fun activity. These ideas can be easily built into sub-plans.
- Pumpkin-themed scavenger hunt
- cardboard pumpkin art
- Tissue Paper Pumpkin Art
- Ground Potato Squash Stamping
- Pumpkin Seed Counting
- marble paint pumpkin
- pumpkin poem
- Jack O’Landt Collage Art
- Alphabet pumpkin matching
- Playdough Pumpkins
Discover the fun of pumpkins with TPT activities
Fall learning can be fun and rigorous! Bring some pumpkin spice into your math, ELA, STEM and art classes with essential activities with pumpkins. Once completed, you can use these projects as decoration or bulletin board installation. Or, take them home with your students so they can continue the fun at home.
