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Pumpkin Unit Study

If you love all things fall and harvest, like beautiful imperfect round pumpkins there are many wonderful ways to incorporate them into your homeschool routine. Pumpkins can be turned into math, science, and history lessons, but also so much more. For a pumpkin unit study, you really need no special supplies or expensive curriculum, just a few pumpkins and some basic items you already have around the house.

Pumpkin Math

Grab a ruler, a scale, and a flexible measuring tape. Bring home several pumpkins or head to the pumpkin patch with them and work on some math skills.

  • Measure the height, width, and circumference of several pumpkins. Weigh pumpkins on a scale, remove the pulp and seeds and weigh them separately.
  • Have younger children place pumpkins in a line in order of largest to smallest and reverse. Cut open a pumpkin and count the seeds.
  • Once your pumpkin is cut open measure the amount of seeds vs. pulp.
  • Cut a small pumpkin in half, then quarters, then eighths to introduce or reinforce fractions with your child.
  • Use pumpkin seeds as manipulatives for counting, skip counting, grouping, creating arrays, use a fine tip sharpie to write numbers on clean dry seeds to use to create math problems.

Label the Parts of a Pumpkin

For this hands-on activity, you just need toothpicks and a bit of cardstock. Cut cardstock in small 1”x2” squares. Write the parts of a pumpkin on each piece of cardstock- stem, seeds, pulp, skin, and ribs.

Tape each piece to a toothpick. Cut pumpkin open or in half and have them stick the label in the correct place, hands-on fun is much more memorable than a worksheet!

However, if you’d rather not label an actual pumpkin, I don’t blame you one bit! You can still work on labeling and identification when you use our free Parts of a Pumpkin labeling worksheet. The set includes a Coloring Page, Notebooking Page, Chart, Labeling Sheet and a Cut and Paste Activity. You can also grab the pumpkin clipart to use within your own teaching resources, just be sure to read the Terms of Use first.

Cinnamon and Sugar Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

An easy pumpkin recipe is a great way to enjoy a hands-on activity for math, science, and reading skills. Recipes help children learn to follow directions, introduces them to fractions, scientific reactions, and more.

You will need:

  • ¾ cup Pumpkin seeds
  • 2 teaspoons butter
  • 2 teaspoons sugar
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon or pumpkin spice
  • Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
  • Remove the seeds from your pumpkin.
  • Wash well, drain in a strainer and remove all bits of pumpkin pulp.
  • Dry seeds well.
  • Toss in a bowl with melted butter, sugar, and cinnamon.
  • Spread in a single layer on a baking sheet.
  • Bake for 25 minutes.
  • Allow to cool then store in a container with a tight-fitting lid.
  • A delicious treat to enjoy while learning all about pumpkins!

Quick Facts About Pumpkins:

  • In Colonial America they sliced to top off the pumpkin, removed the seeds and pulp then filled it with milk, spices, and honey, They then baked it right over hot ashes to make the first pumpkin pies!
  • Pumpkins are made of 90% water.
  • Every single part of the pumpkin is edible, even the stem.
  • Pumpkin is considered a fruit, mainly due to its seeds.

Decorating pumpkins this year but want an educational spin on it? Paint your pumpkin like a globe, label the oceans and continents. Have older children label additional details.

Pumpkin Art Project for Kids

If you want to add a little fall fun to your classroom try these DIY Pumpkin Window clings! Your kiddos can each design their own colorful pumpkin, using these special paints, and our free pumpkin template. You’ll have a unique fall decoration you can hang up for years to come!

Educational Pumpkin Books

Pumpkin Vocabulary

Pumpkin is from the Greek Word ‘pepon’ which means ‘large melon’.

Use the words below as spelling and vocabulary words for your child. There are many ways they can be used such as in sentences for handwriting and grammar,

Pumpkin, Gourd, Seed, Vine, Rind, Pulp, Seedling, Gourd, Harvest, Stem, Tendril, Ribs, Sprout, Skin, Leaves.

Pumpkin Geography

Read the following pumpkin facts aloud and have your child locate the places on a map.

  • Pumpkins are grown on every continent but Antarctica.
  • Morton, Illinois considers itself the pumpkin capital of the world.
  • The world record for the largest pumpkin is 2,600 pounds and was grown in Germany in 2016.

More Pumpkin Printables & Ideas:

We have a great variety of free pumpkin printables and teaching resources you can add to your unit study. These are great for adapting your lesson for younger students:

  • Find Free Pumpkin Printables at PreschoolMom.com 
  • Find Christian Pumpkin Crafts at Christian Preschool Printables
  • Find Pumpkin Bible Verse Cards at Bible Story Printables
  • Find Pumpkin Learning Centers at File Folder Fun

Halloween Outreach Bible Printables

September 21, 2016 By Valerie Mcclintick Leave a Comment

fallbibleprintablesHalloween presents a HUGE outreach opportunity for your Church.  In our town we have a huge city wide Harvest Festival providing children a safe alternative to Trick or Treating.  It is a night filled with treats, games, activities, and fellowship. The entire church parking lot is LIT UP in the middle of town and it draws people away from the darkness and into the light. This is a fantastic time to reach those in your community who might not enter the church building on a Sunday morning.  These resources are created with these opportunities in mind:

Free Halloween Bible Printables

Pumpkin Prayer Printables

pumpkinparable

(HINT: Use alongside this adorable book)

Find More Pumpkin Printables Here:

Parts of a Pumpkin Nomenclature Cards 

Parts of a Pumpkin Worksheets

Pumpkin Preschool Printables

Find Pumpkin Games Here

Pumpkin Crafts & Printables

Pumpkin Bible Verse Cards Here

Pumpkin & Gourds Matching Game

Filed Under: Bible Printables, Bible Verse for Kids, Fall Learning Resources, Harvest Printables Tagged With: bible printables, children's ministry, halloween, harvest, outreach

Pumpkin Prayer Printables

September 19, 2016 By Valerie Mcclintick 1 Comment

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Over the years, the Pumpkin Prayer has been one of our most popular Fall printables.  This year I was so excited to update this resource to include all new graphics in color and black and white.

pumpkinprayerprintableFor those of you now familiar with the Pumpkin Prayer, it is a simple visual prayer you can use with your children during October.  Many families will be carving pumpkins around Halloween and this is a special way you can connect each step of the pumpkin carving to an important heartfelt prayer for your children.   If you are involved in your children’s ministry this makes a great take home booklet to remind children to let their lights shine before men.  This free set is available in color or black and white and you can print it here on our sister site ChristianPreschoolPrintables.com

pumpkinparable

(HINT: Use alongside this adorable book)

 

Find More Pumpkin Printables Here:

Parts of a Pumpkin Nomenclature Cards 

Parts of a Pumpkin Worksheets

Pumpkin Preschool Printables

Find Pumpkin Games Here

Pumpkin Crafts & Printables

Pumpkin Bible Verse Cards Here

Pumpkin & Gourds Matching Game

Filed Under: Bible Printables, Bible Verse for Kids, Harvest Printables, Pumpkin Printables, Thanksgiving Tagged With: bible verse, children's ministry, halloween, harvest, minibook, pumpkin parable, pumpkin prayer, pumpkins, take home, thanksgiving

Pumpkin Prayer Coloring Page

September 5, 2015 By Valerie Mcclintick 2 Comments

PumpkinPrayerPrintables
Okay, I know it’s a tad early to start posting Pumpkin themed printables, but better early than late right?

Besides, I know many of you are NOT procrastinators (like myself) and I’m sure you’re already planning for the Fall months ahead.

So here is a simple activity page that features the Pumpkin Prayer, which is a step by step carving guide for explaining the message of salvation as you cut into and decorate a pumpkin this Harvest season.  There is also a blank pumpkin for children to draw on their own pumpkin face, so these would make excellent take home items for those of you in Children’s Ministry or Daycare centers.

PumpkinPrayerPinPrint Pumpkin Prayer Activity Page Here

Pumpkin Prayer Minibook

Pumpkin Prayer Take Home Cards

Christian Harvest Printables

Thanksgiving Bible Printables

Bible Verse Pumpkins

Halloween Bible Tracts for Kids

 

 


 

Filed Under: Bible Coloring Pages, Bible Crafts, Bible Printables, Harvest Printables Tagged With: halloween, harvest, prayer, pumpkin

Pumpkin Prayer Printable

October 8, 2014 By Valerie Mcclintick 5 Comments

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It’s October and pumpkins are everywhere.

What a perfect opportunity to get creative with your little ones and tie in a little devotional as well.

Quite a few years ago I created this Pumpkin Prayer Minibook, and it’s become one of our most popular resources on Christian Preschool Printables.

 

PumpkinPrayerCards

Today I thought I’d create a similar resource for older children or even young adults.

These Pumpkin Prayer Cards are perfect to pass out at youth Bible studies, place on your harvest tables, tie around pumpkins or insert in your bulletins.

Find more Pumpkin and Harvest Printables Here and Here

 

Filed Under: Harvest Printables, Holiday Printables, Pumpkin Printables Tagged With: halloween, harvest, homeschool, kidmin, prayer, printables, pumpkin, sunday school, youth group

Thanksgiving Bible Printables

October 11, 2012 By Valerie Mcclintick 13 Comments

I have added a few NEW Thanksgiving resources
this year, just in time to print and have ready for your
little ones next month.

These resources would all be great for a notebooking or lapbooking project,
or to enhance your Thanksgiving bible lessons.

If you find these useful, please share and help us spread the word!

1 Thessalonians 5:18 Printables

All Preschool Thanksgiving Bible Printables

Thankful Pumpkin Bible Verse Cards

Pumpkin File Folder Games

If you’re looking for ideas here is a Thanksgiving Lapbook we did a few years back

It is so funny to watch this video 5 years later, I feel like this was FOREVER ago!
Try to ignore my annoying breathing into the microphone ;)

Filed Under: Bible Crafts, Bible Printables, Thanksgiving Tagged With: activities, bible printables, bible verse, coloring pages, crafts, harvest, pumpkin, sunday school lessons, thanksgiving, worksheets

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