Five Little Pumpkins Archives

The Virtual Book Club is exploring the book Five Little Pumpkins this week. A few years ago I made a pumpkin-themed emotion game for a large learning kit company. (I talk more about it in It’s Pumpkin Time post.) I thought you might like some new social skills activities based on The Five Little Pumpkins. I think you will love them.

Social Skills Activities

Supplies for the Activities

- Social Skills Activities with Five Little Pumpkins
- Popsicle sticks
- Black Paper

Each of the social skills activities shared below will give your children a chance to build on their understanding of feelings. They will match feelings to facial expressions. Then they will talk about what causes each of the feelings to happen. Finally, they will act out each of the feelings. This will allow them to express their emotional and social skills through actions.

Activity One

Read the Five Little Pumpkins Feelings Rhyme. Then you can have your children match each pumpkin face to the emotion they match.

Activity Two

Have your children read the rhyme. Then have them each share what they think made each pumpkin feel the way it does.

Five Little Pumpkin Feelings Rhyme

Five little pumpkins sat on a gate.

They don’t all look happy! Let’s investigate!

The first one had a face with a grin. It was very hard for it to hold its joy in.

The second one felt really bad that is why its face looked very, very sad.

The third one was filled with surprise. It didn’t recognize its friend in disguise.

The fourth one has a face with a frown. It is angry and feels down.

The fifth one is all confused about Halloween night. Halloween makes them happy while it fills others with fright.

Activity Three

Your children can select one of the pumpkin face puppets to demonstrate one of the feelings. Next, they can move the puppet to act out the emotion. Then they could hold the puppet while they “pretend” to display the emotion the puppet features.

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Your children might enjoy reading my son’s favorite version of Five Little Pumpkins.

Here are some more Five Little Pumpkins Activities:

Five Little LEGO Pumpkins

Do Pumpkins Float? STEM Activity

Five Little Pumpkins Threading Activity

Five Little Pumpkins STEM Fence Building Activity

Fingerpainting Craft -Five Little Pumpkins

STEM Challenge- Five Little Pumpkins with Challenge Document

My son loved and still loves the Five Little Pumpkins. We read the book so often when he was little that we both memorized all of the words. Recently I was working with some of my students on a writing assignment using lines from the Five Little Pumpkins. I supplied the subject Five Little Pumpkins. They had to come up with a predicate for each sentence. Many of them said they knew that book or song. Guess what? They shared many different lines with me. ( Some of them their own.)

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I decided to see how many different Five Little Pumpkins songs I could find. We learned the Tiger Tales version of Five Little Pumpkins. Below you will find our version and a few others.

Five Little Pumpkins (The version we know!)

Five little pumpkins sitting on a gate.
The first one said, “Oh my it’s getting late.”
The second one said, “There are witches in the air.”
The third one said, “But we don’t care!”
The fourth one said, “Let’s run and run and run.”
The fifth one said, “We are ready for some fun!”
Then OOOhh OOOhh went the wind
And out went the lights
And the five little pumpkins rolled out of sight.

5 Little Pumpkins

5 little pumpkins sitting on a fence.

The first one said, “Oh my, it’s getting late!”

The second one said, “There are witches in the air!”

The third one said, “Well we don’t care!”

The fourth one said, “Let’s run and run and run!”

The fifth one said, “I’m ready for some fun!”

Whoo–ooo went the wind

And out went the light

And the five little pumpkins rolled out of sight!

Version found on A Matter of Memories

Five Little Pumpkins

One little pumpkin smiling smiling.
One little pumpkin smiling smiling.
One little pumpkin smiling smiling.
One little pumpkin is happy.

Two little pumpkins pouting pouting.
Two little pumpkins pouting pouting.
Two little pumpkins pouting pouting.
Two little pumpkins are grumpy.

Three little pumpkins yawning yawning.
Three little pumpkins yawning yawning.
Three little pumpkins yawning yawning.
Three little pumpkins are sleepy.

Four little pumpkins crying crying.
Four little pumpkins crying crying.
Four little pumpkins crying crying.
Four little pumpkins are sad.

Five little pumpkins laughing laughing.
Five little pumpkins laughing laughing.
Five little pumpkins laughing laughing.
Five little pumpkins are playing.

Version from Super Simple Learning

Five Little Pumpkins and Alternate Verses

Five little pumpkins sitting on a gate.
The first one says, “Oh, my. It’s getting late!”
The second one says, “There are witches in the air!”
The third one says, “But I don’t care.”
The fourth one says, “Let’s run and run and run.”
The fifth one says, “We’re ready for some fun!”
Ooooooooooo went the wind, and OUT went the light,
and five little pumpkins rolled out of sight.

Alternate version:
…..The second one says, “The moon is shining bright!”
The third one says, “The bats are out tonight!”
The fourth one says, “Let’s run and run and run!

Version from King County Library

It is a lot of fun to illustrate a favorite song, rhyme, or book. We illustrated the song Over in the Meadow with Duplo awhile ago. It thought it would be fun to illustrate the Five Little Pumpkins with LEGO. As each line was read a pumpkin was taken off the fence. The pictures shared in this post show you just what our base plate looked like as we went through the song from our book.