1. Uppercase Letters Pumpkin Find & Color
This Uppercase Letters Pumpkin Find & Color game is perfect for practicing letter and color identification. Throw these uppercase letter cards in a sensory bin hidden with some fake leaves or dried beans and ask students to find and color each lettered pumpkin! Looking for a way to get your students moving?! Post them all over your classroom walls and ask students to find and color each lettered pumpkin on their recording sheet the matching color!
Looking for lowercase letters too?! Check out #11 below!
2. How to Make Pumpkin Pie Flip Book
Rachael, from Literacy with the Littles, has this awesome Pumpkin Pie Flip Book! This free flip book is the perfect way to let your students work on “how-to” writing this fall. The transition words are clearly stated at the bottom of each page to help your students logically organize their thoughts into sequential order.
3. Spookley the Square Pumpkin Craft Booklet
Storie, from Stories by Storie, has this super creative craft booklet that goes along with the book The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin! This book, by Joe Troiano, is a great picture book choice for October! This fictional story of a square pumpkin provides the reader with a message of celebrating differences and helping others. This pumpkin craft booklet can be used with students while reading this story.
4. Fall Themed Alphabet Puzzles
Laurin, from The Primary Brain, has these fun Fall Themed Alphabet Puzzles! Learn uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet while having fun completing puzzles! Apple, pumpkin, and turkey themes in color and blackline art are included for all letters of the alphabet. Just cut, laminate, and go!
5. Pumpkin and Orange Venn Diagram
Practice comparing pumpkins and oranges using a Venn Diagram with this fun freebie from Bobbi Bates! This is an easy addition to any science lesson and you could always back it with some orange construction paper for a quick and simple fall bulletin board!
6. Fall Math and Literacy Centers for Kindergarten
Check out this Fall Pack of Math and Literacy Centers for Kindergarten from Alleah Marie! Easily keep the fall season going in your classroom with these free, hands-on centers for young learners! The activities include letting matching, beginning sounds, number order, and a simple addition game. These centers are perfect for literacy or math stations activities, fun morning activities, or small group work. Simply download, print, cut, laminate, and off you go! Instructions for each center and answer keys are included.
7. Fall Number Mats (Numbers 1-10)
These Free Fall Number Mats by Erin, from Littles Love Literacy, are so cute! These Fall Number Mats are perfect to help students practice counting, number order, comparing quantities, and one-to-one correspondence! Each number mat has the numeral, the number word (in a traceable font so little ones can practice writing the word), pictures to go along with the number, and a tens frame filled in to represent the number on the card. Some ways you can use these cards include: using play dough to make the numbers, using counters (like pom poms or mini erasers) to count the numbers in the tens frame, tracing the number word with a dry-erase marker, and more!
8. Where’s The Cat? Sight Word Game
Jennifer, from The Connett Connection, created this Free Find the Cat Sight Word Game! Where’s the Cat? is a game that can be played in large or small groups, or one on one to help with sight word recognition. This free pumpkin themed center comes with the first 10 Fry sight words for you to practice with your class. To play, students chant a poem then guess which sight word the cat is hiding behind.
9. Transitional Phrases with the Mentor Text Pumpkin Jack
Looking for something perfect for 3rd or 4th grade?! Check out this interactive pack from Chrissy, at Buzzing with Ms. B, about transitional phrases that goes along with the book Pumpkin Jack! You’ll be able to teach your third or fourth grade students transitions to help their narrative writing flow! Pumpkin Jack is a great mentor text for using transitions to show the passing of time. This resource includes an anchor chart idea, a teacher’s guide, and handouts for students to learn about using transitions in their writing.
10. Sensory Bin Activities: Pumpkin Colors
Practice colors and utilize your sensory bins with this freebie by Kimberly, from Live, Laugh, I LOVE Kindergarten! Make your fall colorful with this Pumpkin Colors sensory bin activity! Your kiddos choose a pumpkin from the bin and color the ones they choose! She has included black and white pumpkins with the color words for a fun matching activity, too!
11. Free Fall Writing Paper
Get your students writing about fall or pumpkins with this Free Fall Writing Paper by Diana, from Sunshine and Laughter by Deno! These free fall writing papers are perfect to get your students excited about writing! Back them with some colored paper and hang in your writing center!
12. Lowercase Letters Pumpkin Find & Color
Grab this pack Free Lowercase Letters Pumpkin Find and Color Game in my store, The Kinder Life! Did you grab the Uppercase Version too (see #1 above)?! If so, I have a BONUS idea for you! Use the UPPERCASE letter cards with this lowercase recording sheet! Students will have to match uppercase and lowercase letters! Perfect for an extension activity!
13. Ten Frame Pumpkins Freebie
Casie, from The Curious Hippo, created these adorable Free Pumpkin Ten-Frame and Twenty-Frame Counting Mats!! This is a fun ten-frame and twenty-frame pumpkin-themed counting activity! There are recording sheets and 2 player options as well! Skills used: number recognition, one-to-one correspondence, counting to cardinality, understand quantity from 0-20.
14. Math Fact Fluency Fall Freebie
Assess those math addition facts this fall with Free Fall Addition Fluency by Devin, from The Adventures of Mrs. J! These fact fluency sheets are an easy way for students to practice their addition math facts. These could also make a quick and easy assessment.
15. Pumpkin Life Cycle PowerPoint
Teach your students all about a pumpkin’s life cycle with this PowerPoint by Jewel, from Jewel’s School Gems! Sample the quality of her Science PowerPoints with this FREE Pumpkin Life Cycle PowerPoint! This Pumpkin Life Cycle PowerPoint presentation contains 7 slides with real images discussing how pumpkins grow from seeds to mature pumpkins.
16. Free Pumpkin Life Cycle Cards
These adorable and INFORMATIONAL picture life cycle cards by Michala, from Keeping My Kinders Busy, will teach your students the changes a pumpkin plant goes through! Print and write numbers on the back if you want them to be self-checking. They can be used whole group or in a center!
