Pumpkins, Pumpkins

Since we harvested our pumpkins last month, we've been using them in our classroom in many different ways- along with other fun pumpkin activities! These were some of our favorites:

Sensory Play: Pumpkin Washing

Sensory Bin: Pumpkin Patch

This sensory bin contained pumpkin seeds, small pumpkin jewels, pipe cleaners and pom-poms. I included the boxy container as an extra material, and the kids decided on their own to use it as a sorting tool to separate the seeds from the pumpkin jewels. 

Pumpkin Math Dice Games

We've used these mats for simple dice games, such as rolling the dice and adding/taking away seeds from the pumpkin or pumpkins from the patch. A great careful counting activity that also uses fine motor skills. 

Pumpkin Painting

Classic fun. :)

Pumpkin Seed Exploration and Counting

Inspired by this book, we opened up one of the Jack-Be-Littles, cleaned it out, and counted the seeds inside.  We counted the seeds together using ten frames, so everyone worked on their one-to-one correspondence while filling up ten or twenty squares at a time. We were amazed to discover that our small little pumpkin had 168 seeds!