Pumpkin Math- Submitted by Sherry

Pumpkins are a natural for math. They come in various sizes and contain many seeds. Compare pumpkins by weight and circumference.

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Submitted by Sherry

Students can pick up three pumpkins, one at a time, and predict the weights: heaviest, middle, and lightest. Invite them to record their pumpkin weight predictions. Then weigh the pumpkins. Do the predictions match the weights? Encourage students to create a chart to organize their information. How big is big? Compare the weights of your pumpkins to the World Class Giant Pumpkins! See the World Pumpkin Confederation's 1996 winner. It weighed 1,061 pounds!

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Submitted by Sherry

Measure the circumference of the same three pumpkins. Does the heaviest pumpkin have the largest circumference? Students can weigh and measure pumpkins at home, record the results and contribute to a group chart of pumpkin weights and measurements. What conclusions can students draw about the relationship between weight and circumference?

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Submitted by Sherry

Find the relationship between the size of a pumpkin and the number of ribs. In how many ways can this relationship be expressed? Predict which pumpkin (the largest? the smallest?) will have more seeds. Hollow out those two pumpkins and count the seeds of each. Predict how many seeds the middle-sized pumpkin will have. Students can find out how close their predictions are.

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Submitted by Sherry

Challenge younger students to find a way to divide the pumpkin seeds so each class member has the same number. Science. Children in grades K-2 will enjoy the read-aloud story, Mousekin's Golden House, by Edna Miller. After reading the story, place a hollowed pumpkin outside in a protected place and observe the changes weekly. Keep a journal of children's observations.

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Sequencing Game- Submitted by Cheryl

Bring in an assortment of pumpkins in different sizes, and let the children put them in order form samllest to largest.

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Pass The Pumpkin- Submitted by Cheryl

Seat the children in a circle. Provide a pumpkin. Play different kinds of music, passing the pumpkin as you go. When the music stops, stop passing the pumpkin. At this age, do not eliminate children who are "caught" with the pumpkin.

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Pumpkin Hopscotch- Submitted by Cheryl

Allow children to use their gross motor skills & number recognition by playing Pumpkin Hopscotch. Use 10 pieces of heavy cardboard, or posterboard. Number the cards 1-10, drawing the corresponding number of pumpkins. Arrange on the floor in the traditional hopscotch pattern. Tape the cards to the floor. Allow the child 2 or 3 turns.

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Pumpkin Toss Pumpkin Seed Counting- Submitted by Cheryl

Similar to egg tossing. Use a small pumpkin per two players. The two people toss the pumpkin back and forth to each other, each time stepping back away from each other. The person wins who does not drop the pumpkin.

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Pumpkin Seed Counting- Submitted by Cheryl

Cut a large pumpkin shape from orange posterboard, add stem and green leaves. Cut from black paper, long two or three inch wide strips. Make these strips fit vertically onto the orange pumpkin but don't glue them on yet.

Using a real pumpkin, let the children quess how many seeds they think are inside of the pumpkin. Cut the pumpkin open and remove and wash the seeds while children watch. After drying on a paper towel let the children start glueing all the seeds onto the black strips of paper.

Count the pumpkin seeds and then glue the strips onto the large orange posterboard pumpkin. Hang on the wall with a sign that says

Our Pumpkin Had _______ Seeds !

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Apples- Submitted by Cheryl

Read the book 10 Apples Up On Top by Theo LeSeig (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss), to the children, or the Book Apples Up On Top Of Me

Have the children make a self portrait. Next, give the apple cut outs and the children decide how many apples they want to balance on their heads and then they glue their apples up on top! Remember to have a variety of apples so they can choose from green, yellow apples or red apples or both. The children can count the apples and write the number on the paper.

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Pumkin Roll Race- Submitted by Cheryl

Let kids have race with medium sized pumpkins.

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Leaf Shapes- Submitted by Julia

Draw basic leaf shapes on separate cards and place into a basket. Collect numerous leaves and then play this game. The child draws a card from the basket and then finds a leaf that matches the shape on the card. Have the child explain why they chose that leaf as a match by describing the 2 leaves.

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Preserving Leaves- Submitted by Julia

Collect samples of colorful leaves and place the leaves between sheets of wax paper. Set the iron to a hot setting. Cover the layers of wax paper with a couple sheets of newspaper and iron them. Attach yarn to the corners and you have a nice window hanging.

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Changing Colors- Submitted by Julia

Observe the effects of light on the color of leaves. When leaves on a tree are still green, cover part of a leaf with aluminum foil. (Choose a tree that you know will turn bright colors.) Use masking tape to tape the foil to the leaf. Sign your name on the masking tape. Wait until the leaves on the tree change color. Then remove the foil and see the colors that were in the leaf all summer!

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Graphing Leaves- Submitted by Julia

Take a census of the trees in your school yard, an area of a nearby park, or another defined area. Draw the types of leaves found and how many of those trees are found. Use the survey data to create bar graphs that show the numbers of trees of different species.

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Identifying Leaves- Submitted by Julia

Collect a variety of leaves and use a tree guide from the library to identify the kind of tree from which each leaf comes. To protect the leaves, you might laminate them.

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Leaf Exchange- Submitted by Julia

Ask parents or teachers in other regions (email friends are great for this!) to join in a leaf exchange. Compare and contrast the leaves found in other areas.

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Ring A Hula Hoop Around a Pumpkin- Submitted by Barb

Yes, a pumpkin can become a game piece, as the kids in my neighborhood discovered. In this version of ring toss, paint points on pumpkins, and arrange them with the highest score farthest from the starting line. Players stand on the line and try to toss a hula hoop around a pumpkin. Three tries for each child; the highest score wins.

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Pumpkin Science- Submitted by Sherry

What is inside a pumpkin? Let the children explore the insides of a pumpkin. It's a great sensory experience.

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Find The Pumpkin-Submitted by Cheryl

Materials:
10 pieces of white paper, 5 pieces of yellow paper, 5 pieces of orange paper, a crayon, scissors

1) Draw ten white pumpkins, five yellow pumpkins and five orange pumpkins. 2) Cut out all the pumpkins. 3) Write the number 1 on the backs of the white pumpkins. 4) Write the number 5 on the backs of the yellow pumpkins. 5) Write the number 10 on the backs of the orange pumpkins. 6) Hide the pumpkins. 7) When your friends come, tell them to find as many pumpkins as they can before you say "Stop!" 8) Have your friends add up the numbers on the pumpkins they found. 9) The person with the most points wins.

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Pumpkin Push- Submitted by Cheryl

Place inflated, round, orange balloon at starting line. At signal, player kicks balloon to finish line.

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Hot Pumpkin- Submitted by Barb

Buy a small pumpkin. Have the children sit in a circle and play a Fall version of "hot potato".

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Collecting Leaves- Submitted by Christi

Have the children collect different kinds of leaves.

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Leaf Sort- Submitted by Christi

Have the children sort the leaves they collected by color, size or type of leaf.

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Leaf Count- Submitted by Christi

Have the children count how many leaves they have collected

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Leaf Blow- Submitted by Christi

Have the children blow a leaf across a table with a straw. Have a leaf race. See who can blow their leaf across the table first.

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Leaf Hide and Seek- Submitted by Christi

Have all the children hide their eyes while you "hide" a leaf in the room. (It should be placed in plain view) Tell the children to find the leaf, but not touch it. Once they spot it they should sit back down in their spot. The first one to sit down again will get to hide the leaf.

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Leaf Fishing Game- Submitted by Christi

Tie 3 feet of string to a wooden spoon. Attach a magnet to the end of the string. Cut and laminate many different colored, and sized leaves from construction paper (not too big though).

Attach a paper clip to each leaf. Spread the leaf shapes on the floor and let your child try to catch the leaves. Have them try to catch the red leaf.. or the biggest leaf. For a twist, label the leaves with letters or numbers. Ask the children to catch a specific leaf, or ask them which leaf they caught.

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Explore a Pumpkin- Submitted by Christi

Take the children to a pumpkin patch to see where pumpkins grow. Discuss the life cycle of the pumpkin. Purchase a pumpkin to take back to the classroom. Cut the lid off the pumpkin and let the children clean it out. Encourage discussion on how the insides feel, look, smell etc. Sort the seeds from the pulp and clean. Have the children guess how many seeds are inside the pumpkin. After they have all guessed sort into groups of ten and tally the total. Cook the seeds for eating.

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Hide The Nuts- Submitted by Terri

Hide them throughout the room children pretend to be squirrels and gather the nuts fun by tasting the nuts that have been discovered. Nut are good for sorting... as far as shape, size and color.

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Squirrel and Nut Game- Submitted by Terri

One child is chosen to be "it" & is given a nut to hold. The other children form a circle, sitting on the floor. They extend one hand & close their eyes. "It" tiptoes around the inside of the circle & puts the nut into one of the outstretched hands. The one who receives it jumps up & chases after the other until he catches "it". He/she then becomes "it" & the games proceeds as before. The children open their eyes as the chase begins.

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Nut Game- Submitted by Terri

Have different types of nuts (in shells) in a pile in front of you. Ask several children to the pile and find all the nuts that look the same. Sort them in pie pans. Once all of the nuts are sorted, have the children carry the pie pans to the water table for further sorting fun.

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Sensory Table- Submitted by Sherry

Add plenty of autumn colored noodles/macaroni.If not, try finding some really large tupperware tubs/dishpans, and use them. I used green, yellow, orange, and leaf shaped macaroni. You could also add leaves or acorns. Then add squirrels (paper,plastic) to find.
If you are lucky enough to have a sandbox in your room or easily accessible, add leaves so that children can jump into them.

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Tree- Submitted by Sherry

Make a paper tree and add a few paper leaves. Attach the tree to a wall in your room. Place squirrels in the tree or at the bottom of the tree. Using an acorn pattern, run some acorns small and some large on brown paper. If your children have already grasped small vs. big, use a color concept. If using a color concept, have the children match the different colored acorns to different colored leaves or squirrels. Provide containers to seperate the acorns into ,at the bottom of the tree. Use velcro to attach the acorns to the tree.

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Squirrels and Nuts- Submitted by Sherry

Make different colored squirrels and nuts from different colored paper. Laminate. Give each child a different squirrel and have them find their nuts. After children have mastered this, hide the nuts in the room and send them on a hunt.

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Pumpkin Exploration- Submitted by Sherry

Place a large pumpkin on the science/messy table, on which you have cut the top off, creating a lid. Let the children explore the inside textures of the pumpkin, by placing spoons, magnifying glasses, and cups in the messy tray. Place a sequence chart, showing the pumpkin, pumpkin innards, seeds, etc; above the activity.

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Plant a Pumkin- Submitted by Sherry

Let each child plant a pumpkin seed in a rubbermaid dishpan. This should result in growing one or two pumpkins. Let the children water the seeds, and seedling. Observe the changes in the pumpkin and refer back to Pumpkin, Pumpkin book. Once the pumpkin becomes too large for the pan, gently place the pumpkin on the outside of the pan, allowing the stem/vine to continue to grow. Once it has reached a good size for you, trim off and place on display.

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Pumpkin Friend- Submitted by Sherry

After you have used your pumkin in exploration and used all of it's insides, you are left with the shell! If you don't want to carve it, try this: Place the top back on the pumpkin and use found materials to decorate a pumkin friend from it. Try using gourd slices, twigs, leaves, orange slices, pine tree bundles, cloves, pinecones, etc; Use toothpicks to "stick" items on the pumpkin. (Orange slices for ears, gourd slices for eyes, pinecone for nose, cloves for crooked smile, leaves/twigs for hair on top, etc;

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Sensory Table Ideas- Submitted by Sherry

Place green easter grass into the table and add lots of thematic items like: pumpkins, gourds, leaves, small scarecrows, etc; Place rice and autumn colored and shaped macaroni into the table. Then add thematic items: scarecrow parts (doll sized overalls, shirt, pumpkin head, etc;) I also use a pumpkin bucket filled with autumn colored macaroni in which tiny pumpkins are hidden. I place a scale on the exploratory table for the children to balance the pumpkins on.

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Submitted by Sherry

Place large (sealed-glued and taped) ziploc bags full of raw pumpkin insides, canned pumpkin, orange paint, and water with orange sequin pumpkin shapes or leaf shaped confetti). Let children use fingers to explore this squishy wishy activity, without fear of getting anything on their hands. On the pumpkin bag, encourage children to write with fingers to make letters, numbers, shapes, etc;

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Pumpkin Sizing- Submitted by Sherry

Make pumpkin from increasing size from one pumpkin to the next. Let each child place them in order from biggest to smallest, and smallest to biggest. Good relational sizing.

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Scarecrow Matching- Submitted by Sherry

Make a scarecrow counting game by making a scarecrow face from tagboard, laminating, and writing a numeral on the scarecrow's hat. Cut a small milk carton in half and glue the scarecrow onto the front. Then make enough crows from colored tagboard to match the numbers listed on the scarecrows. Example, if you used up to number 5, you will need 15 scarecrows. Have the children trace the numeral on the hat with his/her finger. While tracing say the number, then count out crows until you reach the number. Place the crows in the milk carton, and continue until done.

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Pumpkin Number Cards- Submitted by Sherry

Make orange pumpkins and glue onto tagboard, laminate, write numeral onto pumpkin card. Glue appropriate number of pumpkin seeds onto each card, let dry thoroughly and laminate. These are good for counting and numeral to amount matching. Good for number recognition.

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Matching Pumpkin Faces- Submitted by Sherry

Make several matching pumpkin faces from diecuts, and laminate. Place one set of faces onto a long tagboard strip. Under the strip place pieces of velcro. Encourage the child to match the pumpkin face cards to the correct pumpkin face on the strip.

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Thematic Shape Matching- Submitted by Sherry

Make a wheel and divide the wheel into the desired number of parts. One slice of the circle, for each thematic word. Draw a picture of the word in the slice (ex. pumpkin, leaf, etc;) until the wheel is full. Then use clothespins and draw the matching shape for each onto a clothespin. Let the children match the coordinating clip to the coordinating slice on the wheel.

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Leaf Toss- Submitted by Sherry

Take a sheet, or a parachute. Gather real leaves, fabric leaves, or paper leaves. Place them in the middle of the sheet. Gather around the sheet and have the children lift the sheet slowly and then quickly to see how all the leaves "float".

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Leaf Match- Submitted by Sherry

Use a glue stick to glue leaves plucked from 4-6 different trees on to a poster board. Cover with clear contact paper. Sandwich leaves of the same size and variety between two pieces of clear contact paper. Trim around each leaves leaving a o " sealed edge. Set the board and leaves on a tray. The children match the leaves.

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Leaf Pairs- Submitted by Sherry

Collect 6 matching pairs of leaves. Press the leaves between heavy books for several days. Mount each leaf on index cards and laminate. let the children take turns matching the pairs of leaves.

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Little Squirrels- Submitted by Sherry

They will pretend to be squirrels and gather acorns. Then each child will bury their acorns in a pot of dirt. We will see how many little trees we can grow.

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Popcorn- Submitted by Cheryl

A popcorn kernel is actually a seed. Like other seeds, inside it has a tiny plant embryo (a life form in its earliest phase). The embryo is surrounded by soft, starchy material that would give the embryo energy for growing into a plant. A hard, glossy shell protects the outside of the seed.

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Measuring with Cornmeal- Submitted by Cheryl

Pour yellow cornmeal into a plastic dishpan and provide a set of measuring cups. Let the children take turns experimenting with measuring. They will soon discover that it takes four quarter-cups or two half-cups to fill the one cup container.

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Color Change Sequence- Submitted by Cheryl

Laminate or cover with contact paper, several leaves of different colors. The children can sort, count and classify the leaves.

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Weighing Acorns and Pine Cones- Submitted by Cheryl

A scale, acorns and pine cones can be added to the science center.

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Leaf Observation- Submitted by Cheryl

Collect leaves from a variety of trees. Place them and a magnifying glass on the science table for the children to explore.

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Temperature Watch- Submitted by Cheryl

Place a thermometer outside. A large cardboard thermometer can also be constructed our of tagboard with movable elastic or ribbon for the mercury. The children can match the thermometer on the cardboard with the outdoor one.

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Leaf Crunch- Submitted by Barb

Collect leaves. Pour leaves into empty water table. Allow children to scrunch up the leaves with their hands.

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Leaf Math- Submitted by Cheryl

Out of construction paper or tagboard, prepare pairs of various shaped leaves. The children can match the identical leaves.

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Leaf Match- Submitted by Cheryl

Use a glue stick to glue leaves plucked from 4-6 different trees on to a poster board. Cover with clear contact paper. Sandwich leaves of the same size and variety between two pieces of clear contact paper. Trim around each leaves leaving a ¼ " sealed edge. Set the board and leaves on a tray. The children match the leaves.

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Leaf Observation- Submitted by Cheryl

Collect leaves from a verity of trees. Place them and a magnifying glass on the table and invite the chidren to explore.

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Nut Sorting- Submitted by Cheryl

Set out a large basket of unshelled nuts. The children sort the nuts into smaller baskets according to their kind. Afterwards count how many nuts there are of each kind.

add a dice, the children roll dice to see how many to pickup, provide a chart with nut that is opened, children can see what's inside)

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Egg Experiment- Submitted by Cheryl

for First Day of Fall Did you know that you can make a raw egg stand on it's end using nothing to help stand it up on the first day of fall? Every first day of fall (and for some reason it only happens then) I bring an egg to school. We go outside on the sidewalk and set up the egg. It may take a few trys to get it into a standing position, but it will! We graph the hours as they go by and see how long our egg will stand. I think this has something to do with the earth's balance...but I'm not positive of the scientific explanation.

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Autumn Short and Long Path Games from More Than Counting- Submitted by Cheryl

In the short path game, two identical game boards have a squirrel sticker on one end followed by circle labels. The game movers are acorns mounted on wooden disks. A die or spinner is used for the children to decide how to move.In the long path game, one game board has a path of circle labels (some marked with acorns) between a squirrel and an oak tree. Small toy squirrels are used as the movers and dice are used for the children to decide how to move. A basket of acorns is available for children to collect at the end of the game or when they land on acorns.

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Bean Bag Leaf Toss- Submitted by Cheryl

Make several bean bags in leaf shapes, red, green, orange and yellow. Set a bushel basket a few steps away. The children stand behind a line and try to toss their bean bags into the basket.

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Pumpkin Seed Toss- Submitted by Terri

Number and line up 5 small baskets or crates; then have the children stand 3 feet in front of the first crate and toss seeds into the crates in sequence. Small prizes can be given for each of the crates they get their seeds in.

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Corn Husking Race- Submitted by Terri

Give each child 4 ears of unhusked corn and race to see who can have all of their corn husked first.

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Pumpkin Walk- Submitted by Terri

This is like a regular cake walk except instead of numbers, place pictures of several fall items on the floor for the children to walk on and call out the names of the items instead of numbers. Use fall themed music such as "Turkey In The Straw" or "Jimmy Cracked Corn".

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Floating Pumpkins- Submitted by Terri

Number the bottom of the small gourds that look like miniature pumpkins and float them in water for the children to choose one for small prizes.

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Picking Apples- Submitted by Terri

A regular sucker pull can become "Apple Picking." Make a large apple tree with lots of red apples out of construction paper; then connect the tree to some peg board. Mark the tips of the handles on only a few carmel apple suckers then poke them through the peg board holes; poke several unmarked suckers around the marked suckers; then let the kids pick an apple. Have prizes ready for those who get the marked suckers, but everyone gets to keep the sucker they pulled.

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Musical Bales- Submitted by Terri

Play musical chairs with bales of straw instead of chairs. A scarecrow in the center makes a fun decoration for this game. Turkey In The Straw Fill a wading pool with straw and hide a small picture of a turkey in it for groups to dig through to see who can find it first.

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The Squirrel Game- Submitted by Terri

Let the kids pretend they are squirrels gathering nuts for the winter. Give each of the kids a small paper bag, then toss out several unshelled nuts onto the floor and let the kids race to see who can collect the most. Older and younger children should be separated for this game. Another way to play this game, (if you have a way to corral a large quantity of leaves) is to hide nuts beneath a large pile of leaves and give the kids a set amount of time to find as many nuts as they can.

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Pumpkin Race- Submitted by Terri

Set up starting and finish lines and have the children race to see who can get their pumpkin over the finish line first using only their feet to slide the pumpkins along. (No kicking the pumpkins like footballs)

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Scarecrow Relay- Submitted by Terri

This game is a little messy, but a whole lot of fun! Divide the children into two equal groups and have each group form a line. Provide identical scarecrow costumes for each group consisting of a pair of bib overalls or an old faded pair of jeans with a rope for a belt, a flannel shirt, a straw hat, & a basket of straw or the softer version of strawlike material that is sold in craft stores. The first person in line is to put the scarecrow costume on over their clothes and stuff the straw under their hats and inside the flannel shirt or bib overalls.

Once they are completely dressed they must go to the end of their line, remove the straw & costume and pass the items as they are removed up through the line to the person at the front of the line. That player can immediately start dressing in the costume as each piece to the costume is received, then once they are completely dressed will go to the end of the line. Repeat until each player has been dressed in costume. When the last player has finished passing up the pieces to the costume, have the first person in line lay the complete costume out on the floor in front of the line. The group that finishes first is the winner.

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Compare Objects- Submitted by Nan

A dry leaf to a green leaf.

Sounds of dropped objects
(Drop different objects: a block, a book, a cotton ball and a leaf.

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Nut Sorting- Submitted by Nan

Have the children sort nuts by type. For example, pecan, peanuts, acorns, walnuts.

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Fall Feely Box- Submitted by Nan

Learning different textures and identifying them is fun for young preschool and kindergarten children during this early childhood activity by Jana M. Materials: Leaves, acorns, pine cones, nuts, apples, and other things you have discussed. You'll need a box or bag the children can fit their hands into without seeing inside. I use a large shoe box. With a hole cut in the top.

Description: Teachers, without the children seeing you, add the objects in the box. During circle time have the children take turns feeling inside the box. Ask each child to describe what he or she feels and what they think it is. Comments: I use this box often, the children love it. Trying to figure out what's inside is much fun!

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Fall Math Skills- Submitted by Nan
(I do not have the specific worksheets, but they seem simple enough to make ourselves.)

Feed Sammy Squirrel game. Match the number of acorns with a numeral on each squirrel.

Leaf Numerals matching game. Match numerals on a set of leaf cutouts/number of leaves on a tree.

Numbers and Nuts. Match the number of nuts with the numeral on each tree. (Sets to 5) [Teacher's Helper Magazine/Sept/Oct 1994]

Sort a basket of nuts by type and size.

Patterning Using any leaf pattern, make patterning strips from sentence strips. Students will duplicate and then extend the patterns with their own cutouts.

Graphing- Pull a color leaf cutout from a bag.Graph how many of each color leaf you have.Use the graphing sheet (The Mailbox/Primary/Oct/Nov 1993) to color one square for each leaf. Discuss the graph.

Brown Bag Goodies Read the number on each bag. Draw that many nuts in each bag. (Counting to 10)[Teacher's Helper, Kindergarten, Sept/Oct 1994]

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Hammer the Pumpkins- Submitted by Carol

Preschoolers love to hammer away, but sometimes their passion can be somewhat noisy. We bought the biggest pumpkin we could find, set it on a round table dressed with 4 (toy) hammers and 4 baskets full of colored golf tees. It didn't take the children long to figure out what to do. This activity lasted a week! A week of exciting, colorful and rather quiet small motorskills-practice for our preschoolers.

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Breezy Leaf Game- Submitted by Sherry

Color recognition is a breeze with this idea that has your children chanting, moving and following directions!

In advance, cut out a class supply of construction paper leaves in a variety of fall colors. During a group time, give each child a leaf. Direct the group to walk in a circle waving the leaves as they chant the rhyme below. At the end of the rhyme, direct each child to gently "fall" into place when he hears you call out the color of his leaf. Continue until all of the children have been seated. It's easy, breezy color fun!

See the pretty colored leaves,
Swaying gently in the breeze.
Let's all watch them as they fall,
Then name their colors one and all.

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Roll The Gourd-Submitted by Sherry

It's sounds simple enough...but it's quite challenge! Use empty plastic pop bottles for bowling pins. Each child gets three chances to roll the gourd into the pins. The gourds go every which way but straight. Lots of giggles for this one.

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Ring The Pumpkin- Submitted by Sherry

Line up three large pumpkins with stems, to form a ring toss. Use embroidery hoops or make hoops with rope and duct tape. Mark a throwing line on the floor and take turns trying to ring a pumpkin stem. It doesn't matter if they get it or not, you can reward them with small prizes or stickers. Smaller children can attempt to ring an entire large pumpkin with a hula hoop.

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