FREE Resources for Learning about Pumpkins

Published:
September 23, 2020

Contributor:
Stacey Jones

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With Fall, comes all things pumpkins, so now is the perfect time to incorporate learning about pumpkins and their life cycle into your homeschool or school studies. Here are some fun and exciting resources for learning about pumpkins.

Resources for Learning about Pumpkins

Pumpkin Printables

Learning about the life cycle of pumpkins is so much fun with these free and easy to prepare printables. Mostly aimed at younger children, though these pumpkin and squash notebooking pages can be used with older ones.

These Pumpkin Readers are a great way to introduce young children to the life cycle of a pumpkin. There are three different readers, so children will be able to work on their reading and handwriting skills as well.

With this pumpkin lapbook, young children will learn all about pumpkins and their life cycle, all while working on their math and literacy skills.

With this Pumpkin Printable Pack, children will not only completing a variety of activities relating to the life cycle of a pumpkin, but they will also be working on their math and literacy skills.

Maybe your kids would enjoy these Pumpkin Seed Counting Mats which can easily be incorporated in an apple unit for young children. This is a great playdough recipe that can be used with these counting mats.

Did you know you can grow a pumpkin vine in a pumpkin? Try this fun gardening experiment this fall!

Older children who enjoy cooking may like to make this easy and delicious Pumpkin, Rocket and Feta Salad, this yummy pumpkin soup or this lovely Pumpkin and Blueberry Bread.

Or they may enjoy these pumpkin activity pages.

This simple pumpkin book is a great way for young children to learn more about counting and word numbers.

Toddlers will love getting a little messy with this fun pumpkin painting activity or this exciting pumpkin pie slime activity.

Learn all about the sign of a pumpkin with this pumpkin preschool science experiment!

Children will love practicing their rhyming with these festive pumpkin rhyming puzzles.

What do you like best about pumpkin season?

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