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Pumpkin Activities For Kids
Autumn is the perfect time for pumpkin-themed activities, especially while I enjoy my pumpkin spice latte and serve warm pumpkin treats to my kids. My little ones are fascinated by large pumpkins and their many varieties, so I designed a range of fun and educational activities for toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarteners, all compiled into a Pumpkin Busy Book.
These activities will keep your kids occupied and engaged for hours!
Also, don’t miss our Fall Busy Book, packed with autumn-themed learning activities for kids.
Benefits of a Busy Book:
- Improves fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.
- Encourages problem-solving and reasoning skills.
- Enhances literacy, numeracy, and introduces new concepts.
- Supplements homeschool learning.
- Keeps kids engaged while boosting cognitive skills.
- Provides productive, screen-free entertainment with colorful activities.
- Allows children to explore at their own pace, fostering curiosity.
- Sparks imagination and creativity through pretend play.
- Ideal for children with shorter attention spans—keeps them focused and helps build concentration.
- Supports sensory play through sight and touch, ideal for Montessori-style learning.
- Perfect for long flights, road trips, doctor visits, rainy days, or when parents need quiet time.
- Mess-free fun—no spills or cleanup required.
- Stimulates overall developmental skills.
Read: What is a Busy book?
Here are some of the Benefits of a Busy book:
-improve fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.
-Assist in developing problem-solving or reasoning skills.
-Improve literacy and numeracy skills and teach kids basic and new concepts.
-be a great supplement to your homeschool learning
-will keep your child engaged while improving cognitive skills.
-Keep your child productively entertained due to the variety of colorful activities without any screen time.
-Explore activities at the child’s own pace and encourages curiosity.
-Encourage imagination and creativity – pretend play.
-Be great for children with less attention span(keeps them engaged while helping them increase their attention span).
-Use sight and touch which are great for sensory play and as a Montessori material.
-Help kids during long flights or road trips, doctor’s office, on a rainy day, or when the mom just needs quiet time.
-Be non-messy (no spills or clean-up required).
-Stimulate the child’s developmental skills.
Read: Benefits of Busy Books
The printable Pumpkin Busy Book includes activities like pumpkin anatomy and life cycle, alphabet matching, tracing, math, and more!
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Pumpkin Busy Book
This Pumpkin Busy Book, featuring 30 pages of fun and educational pumpkin activities, is the perfect autumn resource for toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarteners. It's an excellent addition to your pumpkin unit study and includes pages that can be used as fall activities for toddlers. This busy book also makes a thoughtful gift for children aged 3 to 5 and can easily be incorporated into your toddler/preschool busy binder or kindergarten busy book printable.
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Pumpkin Printable Activities for Kids
Explore these fun and educational pumpkin-themed printable activities, all part of our Pumpkin Busy Book designed for toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarteners.
Pumpkin theme writing/tracing activities
- Line Tracing for Toddlers: Pumpkin-themed line tracing is an excellent activity for toddlers to practice controlling their pencil grip.
- Letter ‘P’ Tracing for Preschoolers: Preschoolers can practice tracing the letter ‘P’ while enhancing their fine motor skills.
- Pumpkin and Fall Words for Kindergarten: Kindergarteners will enjoy practicing reading, building, and writing pumpkin and fall-themed words, helping to improve their vocabulary, spelling, and writing skills.
Pumpkin Alphabet activities for toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarten
- Alphabet Matching with Pumpkins: A fun activity for toddlers and preschoolers to learn the alphabet by matching letters with pumpkins.
- Uppercase and Lowercase Matching: Preschoolers and kindergarteners can practice matching uppercase and lowercase letters, reinforcing their letter recognition skills.
- Build a Pumpkin Word Puzzle: This hands-on activity helps kids of all ages learn the spelling of the word “Pumpkin” by building it as a puzzle—one of our favorites!
Pumpkin Math activities: Numbers and counting
- Pumpkin Number Matching 1-20: A fun matching activity designed to help toddlers and preschoolers with number recognition from 1 to 20.
- Counting Blue Pumpkins: Preschoolers and kindergarteners can count beautiful blue pumpkins and practice writing the correct number—an ideal activity for developing counting skills.
Pumpkin colors and pattern activities for toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarten
- Color Matching: A fun activity for toddlers to match colorful pumpkins and improve their color recognition skills.
- Color Sorting: Preschoolers and kindergarteners will enjoy sorting pumpkins by color, enhancing their categorization abilities.
- Pattern Completion: Preschoolers and kindergarteners can complete color and size patterns with pumpkins, developing their pattern recognition and logic skills.
Fall Math activities for toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarten
- Shape Matching with Green Pumpkins: A fun activity for toddlers to enhance shape recognition by matching shapes on green pumpkins.
- Size Sorting: Kids can sort small, medium, and large pumpkins to learn about different sizes, boosting their understanding of measurement.
- ‘I Spy’ Pumpkin Counting: This engaging activity helps children count pumpkins of different colors, combining fun with essential counting practice.
Pumpkin science activities for toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarten
- Pumpkin Anatomy: A simple and colorful diagram to help toddlers learn about the inside of a pumpkin and its different parts.
- Pumpkin Varieties Matching: Introduce children to the different types of pumpkins by matching various pumpkin varieties.
- Pumpkin Life Cycle: This activity teaches kids how a pumpkin grows from a tiny seed into a full-grown pumpkin.
Get the Pumpkin Activities Busy Book
Upon purchasing the Pumpkin Busy Book, you’ll receive immediate access to downloadable PDF files. These printouts can be laminated, cut, and enjoyed by kids while you relax and sip your pumpkin spice latte.
Note: Materials needed and instructions for the busy book can be found on my shop page. Simply click the ‘BUY NOW’ button below to view!
Wishing you a wonderful autumn season!
