The air is getting cooler. Leaves crunch on the sidewalk. That only means one thing: It’s pumpkin time! Pumpkins are a part of teaching in fall, and you can use them for so much more than bulletin boards! Use each pumpkin template below to add some spice to your reading, writing, and science lessons.
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Big Pumpkin Template
Draw a school-inspired jack-o’-lantern
Pass out pumpkins and have students design and draw a jack-o’-lantern inspired by a book you read, their favorite novel, a biography, or even a science or social studies topic. Use this as an end-of-book assignment or to create a seasonal bulletin board.
Pumpkin advocates
Generate awareness about a topic students care about by having them research the topic and create a jack-o’-lantern to share information or inspiration about their topic. It could be a kitty pumpkin to raise awareness about an animal shelter, a pumpkin covered in lettuce to increase knowledge of healthy eating, or a pumpkin celebrating whatever they’re passionate about.
Make stained-glass pumpkins
Cut out the pumpkin shape and fill in the outline with orange tissue paper to create a stained-glass effect. Great for window displays.
Large Pumpkin Template With Lines for Writing
Write pumpkin poems
Students can write their poem on the writing lines, or write a poem in the shape of a pumpkin by writing around the outline.
Create a pumpkin book
Students write or retell a story using pumpkin writing paper and staple the story pages into a booklet.
Medium Pumpkin Template With Lines for Writing
Pumpkin compliments
Use these pumpkins in an advisory or morning meeting activity. Give one pumpkin to each student. Have them write a compliment for a peer and then pass the pumpkin compliments around. (Note: You may want to assign each pumpkin a student’s name so that each student receives and gives a compliment.)
Pumpkin life cycle
Use these pumpkins to create a pumpkin life cycle timeline. Students write what happens in each phase of a pumpkin’s life cycle, from seed to jack-o’-lantern.
Printable Page of Small Pumpkins
Pumpkin seed math
For younger students, print these pumpkins and write a number on each pumpkin. Then, give students pumpkin seeds. Students count out the number of pumpkin seeds to go with each number until each pumpkin has the right number of seeds.
The perfect patch
These pumpkins are perfect for a pumpkin patch–inspired bulletin board. Have students decorate their pumpkin or add student photos to each pumpkin for a Best Pumpkins in the Patch board.
Pumpkin graphing
Use these pumpkins for fall graphing activities. Have students graph their pumpkin on bar graphs to show their favorite fall treat, candy, fall color, and more.
Create pumpkin math puzzles
Write the equation on the top half and the solution on the bottom half of a pumpkin. Then, cut each pumpkin in half and have students match the problem with the solution.
Pumpkins in Different Sizes
Pumpkin patterns
Cut out these pumpkins and have students create size patterns.
Math counters
Cut and laminate these pumpkins and use them as counters in a math center.
Plump pumpkins
Give students one of each size pumpkin and have them write words to describe each pumpkin. Encourage them to get creative with their vocabulary. Is the pumpkin small or petite?
Pumpkin Shape Cut-Outs
Jack-o’-lantern game
Print pumpkins and lots of shapes. Students take turns rolling a di to determine how many of each shape they take. Then, they have to make a face or design with the amount of each shape they have.
Pumpkin biography
Challenge students to create a famous person using only a pumpkin, shapes, and their imagination. If George Washington made a jack-o’-lantern, what would it look like? What about Amelia Earhart or Mae Jemison?
Learn more: How and Why To Use Picture Book Biographies in the Classroom
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