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Pumpkin Week Activity Plan for Preschoolers with 5 Little Pumpkins

October 1, 2021

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Halloween is around the corner and we are getting ready to celebrate with a fun fall theme that will work for Halloween as well with your Preschoolers. Pumpkins! And we are featuring our favourite Pumpkin Book Five Little Pumpkins by Dan Yaccarino.

So here we go our simple Pumpkin Week Activity Plan for Preschoolers from the Virtual Book Club for Kids Team.

Fun pumpkin week themed activities for preschoolers featuring the picture book 5 Little Pumpkins by Dan Yaccarino. Have fun, read, play, create and learn
Easy Pumpkin Week Activities for Preschoolers featuring Five Little Pumpkins

Find Your Activity Plan Here

  • Virtual Book Club for Kids Featured Five Little Pumpkins by Dan Yaccarino
  • Pumpkin Songs and Rhymes
    • Five Little Pumpkins Sitting On a Gate | Pumpkin Song
    • Five Little Pumpkins | Pumpkin Song
    • The Pumpkin Life Cycle Song
  • Plan your Pumpkin Week
  • Pumpkin and Five Little Pumpkin Activities for Preschoolers
  • Pumpkin Week Activities on Pinterest
  • More Pumpkin Books for Preschoolers
  • Join Us Next Week for The Virtual Book Club for Kids
  • More Halloween Themes for the Month of October
  • Other Fall Themes for Preschoolers from The Virtual Book Club for Kids

Virtual Book Club for Kids Featured Five Little Pumpkins by Dan Yaccarino

We have included links to the book and resources we recommend for this theme. If you purchase via these links we may earn a small commission on the sale.

Five Little Pumpkins by Dan Yaccarino is a fun illustrated book for toddlers and preschoolers that follows closely with the rhyme 5 Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate. We love that it includes counting and rhyming words making it a fun book to read together with your toddlers and preschoolers.

If you can’t get a copy of the book don’t worry, watch it being read below. You’ll also find some more pumpkin books below that we recommend reading with your preschooler.

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Pumpkin Songs and Rhymes

In each of our activity plans this year we are including some songs and rhymes for you and your preschooler to learn, move and sing. Check them out below:

Five Little Pumpkins Sitting On a Gate | Pumpkin Song

Five Little Pumpkins | Pumpkin Song

The Pumpkin Life Cycle Song

For even more pumpkin videos for kids, be sure to explore these Virtual Pumpkin Patch Field Trips.

Plan your Pumpkin Week

We have picked 5 easy activities based on this theme. Pick the one that appeals to you the most, try a few or if you are looking for more structure for your days then check out our weekly suggested schedule and plan to try all 5.

structured weekly schedule for the virtual book club for kids
Suggested schedule if you plan to do an activity a day with your preschooler inspired by this fall theme
Pumpkin Week at the Virtual Book Club for Kids

Pumpkin and Five Little Pumpkin Activities for Preschoolers

Five Little Pumpkins Book Themed Activity Plan for Preschoolers

A fun week of simple, easy, and low prep pumpkin-themed activities for preschoolers inspired by the book Five Little Pumpkins by Dan Yaccarino

Photo Credit: teachingmama.org

Pumpkin Sensory Play

For this week's sensory activity we are going to get a little messy.

This 2-ingredient pumpkin fluff is easy to make and the kids will love the sensory exploration with it. Want to add in numbers and letters then use it as a writing tray and trace the numbers into the fluff.

Photo Credit: simpleplayideas.com

Alphabet Activity for Pumpkin Week

Get moving and help with letter recognition with this really simple ABC Pumpkin Hop.

If you don't have the plates used then cut out the same shape from an orange card for easy pumpkins.

Photo Credit: toddlerapproved.com

Roll a Pumpkin Dice Game

We are making our own pumpkins with a race to see who can make it first. It's great for turn-taking, learning to lose as well as working on number recognition and recognizing numbers in a pattern like the numbers 1 - 6 on a dice.

Afterwards you can use the playdough for this Pumpkin STEM Activity too!

Photo Credit: eatsamazing.com

Halloween Pumpkin Peanut Butter Balls Recipe

These cute Pumpkin Peanut Butter balls made with Peanut Butter make a great no-bake treat for celebrating Halloween with kids!

Pumpkins can be so much fun to cook with with kids! For extra pumpkin fun try these peanut butter pumpkin brownies or pumpkin ice cream.

Photo Credit: kidfriendlythingstodo.com

Easy Paper Bag Pumpkin Craft for Kids to Make

This week we are making a simple craft that you can then use for a fall decoration or add a little extra to make it ideal for Halloween.

We're making Paper Bag Pumpkins. If you want to adapt it for Halloween then add some features - maybe you could make a Pumpkin family with different sized bags and add facial features for Jack-o-lanterns.

Pumpkin Week Activities on Pinterest

Would you like more fun and easy pumpkin activities to do this week then check out our Pumpkin Week Pinterest Board for more ideas

More Pumpkin Books for Preschoolers

If you wish to add a few more books to your reading this week with your child then check out our 3 other book suggestions around the Pumpkin Theme this week.

It’s Pumpkin Day Mouse by Laura Numeroff

Too Many Pumpkins by Linda White

Pumpkin Jack by Will Hubbell

Join Us Next Week for The Virtual Book Club for Kids

Our theme for next week is Monsters with the book Go Away Big Green Monster by Ed Emberley.

More Halloween Themes for the Month of October

Fun ghost themed activities for a Halloween week of learning, playing and creating from The Virtual Book Club for Kids
collage of simple and easy low prep monster activities for preschooleers and the cover of the virtual book club for kids featured book Monster Trouble

Want to extend the Halloween Theme further this month then why not dip into one of our other not too scary themes activity plans for preschoolers like the Ghost Week featuring Ten Timid Ghosts or Monster Week with Go Away Big Green Monster.

Other Fall Themes for Preschoolers from The Virtual Book Club for Kids

Fun fall themes and books for preschoolers to enjoy. With simple weekly activity plans and recommended picture books these are fun ways to celebrate the season whilst learning, playing, creating and having fun.
Fall Themes with Featured Books for Preschoolers from The Virtual Book Club for Kids

Find all our themes for fall in one place with featured books that you will love to read together.

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  1. Lynne. Clough says

    October 10, 2018 at 2:47 am

    I love the pumpkin flyff recipe but how about using whip cream or cool whip instead. That way if it ends up in someone’s mouth it’s ok.

    • Cerys Parker says

      October 10, 2018 at 9:19 am

      What a great idea – I used to use pudding with my daughter because she ate everything including shaving foam!

    • Kelly says

      October 26, 2018 at 7:39 pm

      I used Cool Whip today after seeing your suggestion and it worked really well! I didn’t measure, just dumped some in and added some spices to get the pumpkin pie smell. Of course my 3.5 yr old just wanted to eat the cool whip once she saw it. Lol.

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