Pumpkin Unit Study for Kids (PreK or Kindergarten)

     Pumpkins! Pumpkins everywhere! It's that lovely time of year when we see signs of Autumn and we look forward to the approaching holidays.  The first colorful sign we see here in Southern California are pumpkins.  We love those bright round beautiful pumpkins on doorsteps, in stores, and decorating homes.  Not to mention all the yummy Pumpkin recipes that pop up!
     Here are a few of the Pumpkin recipes that I have on my Pinterest board (Hopefully someday I'll get around to trying these out, haha)...
- White Chocolate Pumpkin Snickerdoodles
- Pumpkin Gingerbread Muffin
- White Chocolate Pumpkin Blondies
You can visit my Pinterest board called Sweet Tooth for more yummy looking recipes that I never make but daydream about. Haha!

And here is an outline of my Pumpkin Preschool lesson plan:

PICTURE BOOKS:
- The Biggest Pumpkin Ever
- The Itsy Bitsy Pumpkin
- Five Little Pumpkins (Harper Growing Tree)
- Pumpkin Soup

EDUCATIONAL BOOKS:
- From Seed to Pumpkin (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1)
- Seed, Sprout, Pumpkin, Pie (Picture the Seasons)
- How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?
- Pumpkin Jack

WORKSHEETS:
- Fill In the Missing Numbers Pumpkin Patch (Math)
- Pumpkin Life Cycle Assignment (Science)
- Draw Your Own Jack O Lantern (Creativity)
- Pumpkin Investigation Report (Critical thinking)

ART/CRAFT PROJECTS:
- Knuckle Pumpkin Prints
- Pumpkin Mosaic

Knuckle Pumpkin Prints

- Crayons & Watercolor Pumpkins - I enjoyed doing this art project to classical music and instructing Marley to draw a "still-life" painting of our pumpkins.

VIDEOS:

Pumpkin Mosaic

- Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
- That's How A Pumpkin Grows music video
- 5 Little Pumpkins song
- Time Lapse Pumpkin Growing video

GAMES/ACTIVITIES:
- Pumpkin Matching Card Game
- Roll A Pumpkin Game