This is one of my favorite weeks of the year-pumpkin week! If you haven’t already, pick up some pumpkin buckets for your classroom. These are great to put in your sensory table, homeliving and block center, as well as to hold things for your circle time. You can put different objects in them and have the students put their hands in and try to guess what’s in the bucket, or you can give each student a small pumpkin to hold. Real baby pumpkins are also great to have around.
Day one, have your students make their own Jack-o-lantern. Give each student a pumpkin outline and have them cut it out, either independently, with assistance, or using switch-operated scissors. Provide a variety of shapes cut out of black paper and have the students glue them onto the pumpkin to make a Jack-o-lantern. Add a green stem as well.
For fine motor, cut out a pumpkin outline for each student and glue it to a sheet of waxed paper. Have the students cut or tear pieces of orange tissue and glue them to the center of the cut-out. Students who have less dexterity can use Con-tact paper rather than glue/waxed paper. Once the art work has dried, run it through the laminator or stick Con-tact paper to the top of if.
Make a variety of patterns on strips of cardstock and put them in your math center-I used clip art from the internet to make patterns in Word of pumpkins and candy corn. Laminate them for durability and let your students use cream pumpkins and candy corn to complete the patterns. It will help to discourage your students from eating the candy if you give them a few in a cup to eat while they work.
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