Pumpkins Storytime

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Song:

(tune: I'm a little teapot)

I'm a little pumpkin

Fat and round

Sitting in a pumpkin patch, 

on the ground.

I can be a jack-o-lantern

With two bit eyes

Or made into a big fat pie.

Song:

(tune: twinkle, twinkle, little star)

Pumpkin, pumpkin orange and round,

Sitting right there on the ground

Once you were a seed so small

Now you are a great orange ball

Pumpkin, pumpkin orange and round, 

rolling, rolling on the ground.

Poetry:

Peter, peter pumpkin eater

Had a wife and couldn't keep her

He put her in a pumpkin shell

And there he kept her very well.

Poetry:

When you see me in the fields,

My orange glowing in the sun

It's time to say goodbye to summer

And hello to autumn fun!

Poetry:

One day I found two pumpkin seeds

I planted one and pulled the weeds.

It sprouted roots and a big long vine

A pumpkin grew; I called it mine

The pumpkin was quite round and fat

I really am quite proud of that.

But there is something I'll admit

That has me worried just a bit.

I ate the other seed, you see

Now will it grow inside of me?

I'm so relieved since I have found

That pumpkins only grow in the ground!

Pumpkin Stories:

The Biggest Pumpkin Ever by Stephen Kroll    (1984)

The Berenstain Bears and the Prize Pumpkin by Stan and Jan Berenstain  (1990)

The Bear Detectives: the Case of the Missing Pumpkin by Stan and Jan Berenstain  (1975)

Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper  (1999)

Booklist from Roanoke Library

Craft:

Take a paper plate, cut out eye holes and attach a stick to the bottom. Have children decorate with markers and paint (or pre-cut out construction paper shapes for them to glue on.

Template for pumpkin face

Pumpkin paper plate craft from dltk 

Take 2 paper plates and punch holes in them. Have children use a piece of yarn with one end taped to lace the two parts of the "pumpkin" together and then decorate. More lacing project ideas

Coloring Page:

Mother and daughter holding pumpkins

Cornucopia of fruits

Pumpkin Coloring Page

More Pumpkin storytime ideas

Still more Pumpkin storytime ideas(from first-school)