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Halloween Pumpkin Number Match Muffin Tin Activity

October 16, 2023 By Deirdre

This Halloween pumpkin number match activity focuses on number recognition and number sense. Children will place the correct number of objects or a number circle or picture circle in each muffin cup. . You could just give your children a printed pages with the number disks on it if you don’t want to cut them out. However, using the muffin tin for the math activity does keep the objects from moving around.

Getting the Halloween Pumpkin Number Match

First, you download the set.

Halloween Pumpkin Number Match Muffin Tin Activity Download

Second, if you don’t have Acrobat Reader please download it. The set is a Acrobat Reader PDF file.

Third, go to your download file and open the set.

Getting Ready to Explore the Halloween Pumpkin Number Match

Setting up the Muffin Tin

First, you will need to cut out each of the pumpkin number circles. It really doesn’t matter if you chose the B/W version or the colored version.

Then you will place each number you want your children to explore into a muffin cup. The numbers can be placed in sequence or mixed up. Some of the numbers can be used or all of them. It is really up to you.

Finally, a decision will need to be made as to whether you will have your children place a matching number circle on each pumpkin, a pictures of a number of pumpkins or objects in each cup. If children are working on number recognition, you can use the number circle. If children are working on number sense, they will add a number of objects that match each number into its cup or the pumpkin circle.

Objects Children Can Count With

If you choose to use objects, below you will find a number of objects you can count with. Some of the objects have links. Those links are affiliate links.

Bear Counters
Acrylic Pumpkins
Unfix Cubes
Pom-Poms
Counters
Bread Tags
Bottle Caps
Buttons
Small Pebbles
LEGO
Small Halloween Erasers

Do you have to use objects? No, there is a set of pumpkin number circles that displays groups of pumpkins. You can use that if you like.

More Muffin Tin Activites

Scarecrow and Crows Muffin Tin Activity

Eggs and Nests Number Matching

Pumpkin Decorating Ideas Based on Children’s Books

October 19, 2020 By Deirdre

These no carve pumpkin decorating ideas feature my collection of printable masks based on a children’s book. In addition to pumpkins wearing a mask your children can too. What fun it will be to decorate a mask and then use it to decorate.

Pumpkin Decorating Ideas – Masks

Ways to Attach a Mask

You will need to select one of the masks below and then attach it to your pumpkin. We mostly attached ribbons the masks. Additionally the following items could be used to attach your mask or masks.

Pipe Cleaners
Rick Rack
Twine
Yarn

We used tape to attach the mask to the items above. Your could punch holes in the right and left side of the mask and tie ribbon or another item to it.

Mask Template

Each of these pumpkin decorating ideas is a PDF template. You will need to have a PDF reader to open them.
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Jaguar Mask Template

I created a rain forest summer series of activities. This mask was created to go along with that series.

Bear Mask Template

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? first inspired this mask. We love lots of bear books. You will find a list of them on the post with the template.

Mouse Mask Template

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie was the book the orginally inspired this mouse mask.

There was an Old Lady Mask Template

There Was An Old Lady Pack Set of 8 Books series of books inspired this mask. We just loved reading them at my house.

Cute Shark Mask

There are several books that this mask could present. We love the book Shark vs. Train.

Cow Mask Template

Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type was the book that inspired this mask. I read it every year to my students.

Cat Mask Template

This mask was created to go along with the Pete the Cat series of books. Pete books are so much fun to read out loud.

Raccoon Mask Template

This mask was created to go along with the book The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn. This is a great book to the start the school year with.

Pumpkin Decoratin Ideas -Other Supplies

You can decorate the masks using any craft supplies you have on hand. The following supplies were used on our masks:

Crayons
Magic Markers
Paint Fork Painted onto a Mask
Water Colors
Construction Paper

You will need to gather all the supplies you want your children to use, after that they decorate them any way they like for their pumpkin. If it is important to you that the mask matched the book character however, you may want to have picture for them to refer to.

More Children’s Book Related Activities

In addition to the masks, you will find these children’s books available on my blog.

First, your children will enjoy this One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish Algorithm Activity .

Second, this STEM Challenge that inspired by Peter Rabbit allow your children build a trampoline.

Third, your children can draw and learn about coding while exploring this set of turkey coloring pages.

Finally, this Duck in a Truck activity uses home slime and a plastic truck.

Drawing Five Little Pumpkins Based on an Algorithm Worksheet

October 24, 2018 By Deirdre

Your children probably love the book the Five Little Pumpkins. (It is one of my son’s favorite book of all time.) If your children are like him, they have already memorized the book. This Five Little Pumpkins drawing activity invites your children to create their own illustration of the rhyme. It also introduces your children to coding. The worksheet asks them to draw various parts of the illustration by following the algorithm’s steps.

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If your children haven’t heard the book or the rhyme before, you will want to read them the book. The Five Little Pumpkinsis a great one to share. The illustrations are a lot of fun. Your children will love each of the pumpkin’s facial expressions.

Downloading Your Five Little Pumpkins Worksheet

The Five Little Pumpkins Based on an Algorithm Worksheet worksheet can be downloaded for free. You will need to open it with Acrobat Reader.

The “when run” blocks gray coding looks great when printed out on a black and white printer.

Exploring the Five Little Pumpkins Algorithm

If you have explored coding with blocks or used another one of our coding worksheets like the Magical Creatures Coding Drawing Activity, your children may be ready to do this on their own. If this is the first time they explored coding, you will want to do this together.

You will want to start by telling them that the “When Run” block means this is where the algorithm starts. If this was written for a computer, it would mean go.

Then you will want to walk them through each block. Make sure they do what each block says to do before they move to the next.

When they get to the draw the background block, you may want to brainstorm what kinds of things can be drawn in the background. They might want to add any of the following:

witch
moon
grass
spider
ghost
stars

If you like this coding activity, here are some more your children will enjoy:

Magical Creatures STEM Coding Algorithm Drawing Activity

Coding the Planets in Order

Life Cycle of a Spider Coding Printable

Coding for Kids- The Day It Rained Hearts

Pre K Tracing Worksheets with a Pumpkin Theme

October 16, 2017 By Deirdre

Prewriting activities like the ones your children can do with this set of pre K tracing worksheets are a great way to work on fine motor skills. Whether you choose to have your children use a pencil to trace the lines or a pumpkin seed and chopsticks, they are sure to have fun. We concentrated on using a chopstick and a pumpkin seed. Your children are going to have fun trying each of the ways we came up with.

Getting the Pre K Tracing Worksheets

You can click right on the words Pumpkin Prewriting Activity to download the complete set of pre K tracing worksheets. You will find that there are six printable in the set.

Getting the Chopsticks Ready

You will need to wrap a rubber band around the top of a set of chopsticks. Then push a pom-pom up between the chopsticks. Having the pom-pom between the chopsticks will cause them to spring open when your children release the pincher grip on the chopsticks.

Using the Pre K Tracing Worksheets

You could just have your children trace over the lines on the pre K tracing worksheets with a pencil. I think your children will have more fun using a set of chopsticks and a pumpkin seed. The hold your children will place on the chopsticks is the same pincer grip your children use with a pencil.

Activity One

Have your children place the pumpkin seed in the chopsticks vertically. The pumpkin seed will look like the tip of a pencil. Then have them move the seed along each line until they have reached the pumpkin.

Activity Two

This time your children will place the pumpkin seed in the chopstick horizontally. This will make the gap between the chopsticks a little wider. Then they will once again move the seed along each line to the pumpkin.

Activity Three

The pumpkin seed isn’t in the chopsticks for this activity. Your children will push the pumpkin seed along with lines with the chopstick. This activity requires the most focus.

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This activity was designed to go along with the Virtual Book Club Book of the Week Five Little Pumpkins. Below you will find more Five Little Pumpkin activities created by other Virtual Book Club Members.

Name – Name Pumpkins on a Gate – Preschool Powol Packets
Numbers – Dabber Pumpkin Count – My Storytime Corner
Cooking – Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies – Mama Smiles
Science – Stacking Pumpkins STEM Activity – The Educators’ Spin On It
Pre-Writing – Pumpkin Pre-Writing Activity with Chalk Markers – Inspiration Laboratories
Movement – Puppet Craft Activity and Acting Out the Story-The Moments at Home
Shapes – Pumpkin Shape Memory Game – Rainy Day Mum

Here are a few more Halloween activities:

Halloween Candy Learning Challenge Cards- Let’s Build It

Candy Learning Challenge Cards- Let’s Sort It

Halloween Tens Frames Printables

Pumpkin Counting Cards and Sensory Bottle Activity

September 8, 2017 By Deirdre

This pumpkin counting activity will be such fun for your children to explore. Your children will use a set of pumpkin counting cards and a sensory bottle to make educated guesses. While counting is usually precise and exact, this activity focuses more on estimating.

Pumpkin Counting Cards Activity

Getting Ready for the Activity

Before you get started, you will need to print out the Sensory Bottom Counting Cards. The cards have an orange border and pumpkin on them, but you could just print them out in black and white if you like.

Preparing the Sensory Bottle

Supplies

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Acrylic Pumpkins Yellow and Orange (The pack we found at a big box craft store had a larger variety of colors in it.)
VOSS Artesian Water Plastic Bottles
Baby or Mineral Oil

Putting the Sensory Bottle Together

You will find that you want to add the pumpkins to the jar before adding the mineral oil. When you add the oil first and then add the pumpkins, you risk having the oil overflow. Adding the pumpkins will displace some of the oil and force it upward in your bottle.

Once you have added your pumpkins, you need to screw on the lid very tightly. If you are concerned that the lid will come off, you could place duct or clear packing tape around it to seal it to the bottle.

Counting Cards Activities

If you have counted the pumpkins as you add them to the jar, you will know exactly how many pumpkins there are in each color. If your children helped you put them together, they may too. It is totally okay if they don’t.

Counting with Young Children

You will need to read the questions on each of the counting cards to your children. They will then need to look for the answer in the sensory bottle. It may be hard to see the pumpkins in the middle of the bottle. If your children miss one or two pumpkins, that is totally okay. You can tell them that they are estimating the answer.

Counting with Older Children

Older children will probably be able to read the questions on the cards for themselves. Then they can look for the answer to each card in the bottle. They may want to use a chopstick to point to each pumpkin as the count.

Counting Alternative

If your children are easily frustrated or need to be precise, you could tell them the number of pumpkins they need to look for in the jar. Then they can try to find each of them and count them.

If you like this sensory bottle activity, here are some more you will love.

Five Ways to Use Sensory Bottles to Learn

Using Sensory Bottles to Explore Shapes

STEM Pumpkin Printable Activity

September 7, 2017 By Deirdre

This STEM pumpkin printable my day four pumpkin activity. There will be a total of five sets of pumpkin activities shared by the end of this week. There are pumpkin themed printables for preschool and school-age children. Today’s activity could be done with younger or older children. Let me walk you through how to use this STEM pumpkin activity age with both age groups.

Pumpkin Printable Activity

Before You Start the Pumpkin Printable Activity

You will need to download a copy of the STEM Pumpkin Activites for Kids You will need one printable for each of your children.

Using the Pumpkin Printable with Younger Children

If you have preschool or kindergarteners, you will have them fill in the picture and colors of the pumpkin on their own. Then you could have them dictate the words they want to use to describe their pumpkin’s size, texture and look.

They may need help measuring the pumpkin’s height, weight and distance around. Some children may not need help with this.

They may have trouble coming up with words to describe their pumpkin’s look. You may need to prompt them with words like the following:

bumpy
smooth
slippery
speckled
rough
bruised

Using the Pumpkin Printable with Older Children

Your older children may feel like they will be able to fill out the pumpkin printable out on their own. It may help them to brainstorm words that describe the pumpkin’s size, texture and look with you before they fill out those areas of the pumpkin printables.

You may even want to display the brainstormed words on a chart. A chart of words spelled correctly might inspire your children to use longer or more descriptive words to describe their pumpkin.

If you like this STEM activity, here are so more STEM activities with printables that you will want to check out.

Little Miss Muffet Coding Activity and Printable

Apple Weight Loss STEM Activity

Sedimentary Rock Cookie Recipe and Activity

LEGO Algorithm STEM Activity

Pumpkin Sight Word Worksheets for Preschoolers

September 6, 2017 By Deirdre

This is day three of five days of pumpkin printables. Day One featured a pumpkin graphing set for preschoolers. Day Two focused on two digit addition with and without regrouping. Today’s set features pumpkin themed sight word sentences.

Sight Word Worksheets

Getting Ready

Before you can use this set of sight word worksheets, you will need to download them. You can click on Reading Comprehension Worksheets – Let’s Read About Pumpkins to get your free set of sight word worksheets.

Getting Started

You can have your children work on all or just one of the pumpkin printables. Each sight word worksheet has the same number of sentences. They all have sight words from the pre-primer and primer Dolch sight words lists.

First Things First

The word pumpkin doesn’t appear on either of the sight word lists. Your children will notice that in place of the word pumpkin a picture of a pumpkin appears. Just in case they don’t notice a picture key is at the top of each of the sight word worksheets.

Reading the Sentences

You children will have fun reading each one of the sentences. They will find that only a few of them are long. The short sentences should be easiest for them to read.

Coloring the Pumpkins

After they have read each sentence, you can have your children color in the pumpkin that appears in it. It will be a reward for successfully reading each of the sentences.

If you like this reading printable, here are some more free printables you will want to check out.

Apple Themed Reading Comprehension Sheets

Reading Dolch Words with Crabby the Crab

Reading and Building Words Under the Sea Printable

Free Printable Books for Beginning Readers

Free Emergent Readers

Free Printable Word Family Books

You will find more reading activities and printables on my Learn to Read board on Pinterest.

Two Digit Addition Pumpkin Worksheets

September 5, 2017 By Deirdre

This week I am sharing with you 5 days of pumpkin pages for learning. Yesterday I shared with you a set of count, color and graph sheets that featured pumpkins and other fall themed objects. Today I have a set of two digit addition sheets. Some of them focus on addition without regrouping and other work on addition with regrouping.

Addition Pumpkin Worksheets

Before you get started you will to download and print out the Two Digit Pumpkin Addition With and Without Regrouping worksheets. You may notice that they have the same format as the apple themed two digit addition pages I shared with you last month.

Exploring the Pumpkin Worksheets

Your children will have fun completing these addition worksheets. Each of the pumpkin worksheets invites them to do several different things.

First Activity on Each Pumpkin Worksheet- Find the Sums

The first thing your children are asked to do is find the sum of each of the addition facts on the page. The pages are not filled with an overwhelming number of problems. There are only twenty on each of the worksheets.

Second Activity on Each Pumpkin Worksheet

Each of the pumpkin worksheets will ask your children to identify a particular aspect of each sum. Some of the worksheets will ask your children to identify whether the sum is an even or odd number. Some of the worksheets will ask them to decide if the sum is greater than or less than 50. A color key on each of the pumpkin worksheets will help them show their understanding of each of these concepts.

If you like this set of pumpkin printables, here are some more you will enjoy sharing with your children.

Halloween Candy Learning Challenge Cards- Let’s Build It

Candy Learning Challenge Cards- Let’s Sort It

Halloween Tens Frames Printables

Count, Color and Graph Pumpkin Sheets

September 4, 2017 By Deirdre

The leaves and acorns displayed on this set of pumpkin sheets will be such fun for your children to explore. The first pumpkin sheet has fewer pictures on the pumpkin. That means there will be less data for your children to graph. The second of the pumpkin sheets has more pictures on its pumpkin. That means that will be much more for your children to graph.

Using the Pumpkin Sheets

Getting Ready to Use the Pumpkin Sheets

Before you get started you will need to download and print out the Count, Color and Graph Pumpkins sheets. You could have your children start with pumpkin sheet with fewer pictures if you like.

Ways to Use the Pumpkin Sheets

Counting and Coloring

Your children will need to start by counting how many of each object there is on each pumpkin. You can have them color the pictures before they count if you like. Another option is to count as they color.

Children don’t have to color all the similar leaves the same color. It might make it easier for them to count them if they are the same.

Graphing

The pumpkin sheets don’t say how your children to graph their data. They were left open-ended so you could decide how you want your children graph.

Bar Graph

Children could color in the boxes beside pictures to show how many of each object they counted. That would give them experience with making a bar graph.

Picture Graph

Your children could try to draw a smaller version of each of the pictures in the boxes. That would give them a chance to create a picture graph.

If you like these pumpkin sheets, here are some more graphing printables you will like.

Graphing Practice Worksheet Collections- Snow Theme

Graphing Ocean Animals with LEGO

Find, Count, Graph Ocean Animals

Roll and Graph Math with Apples

Lucky Charms Graphing

5 Days of Pumpkin Pages for Learning

September 3, 2017 By Deirdre

Each month I join with 3 Dinosaurs and Royal Baloo to share 5 days of learning printables. This month we will all be sharing pumpkin pages that you can do with your kids at home or your students at school.

Below you will find the area where I will add the printables we each share each day. By the end of this week, you will have 15 different free sets of pumpkin pages. Some of the concepts we will be focusing on will great to work on with preschoolers. Other pumpkin pages will be more appropriate to use with grade-schoolers.

I will be sharing printable worksheets for each of those groups. My printables are going to explore graphing, counting, and sight words for preschoolers. You will also find a STEM and two-digit addition pages for grade-schoolers.

Here are some pumpkin pages I have shared in the past that you can use today. Tomorrow I will begin to share this year’s pumpkin pages.

Teaching Feelings with Five Little Pumpkin Printable Puppets

Creative Writing Prompts- Pumpkin Poems

Printable Worksheet – Pumpkin Teeth