Pumpkin activities are a festive and easy way to engage preschoolers in learning. Children enjoy exploring pumpkin activities during the fall season. The bright orange, round, and fat pumpkins are our favorite seasonal activities. Young learners appreciate engaging senses of the texture, smell, and color of pumpkins. Furthermore, pumpkin activities are an excellent way to foster creativity with carving, disguising, and painting. Incorporating pumpkin activities during fall festively provides multifaceted learning experiences.

Favorite Fine Motor Pumpkin Activities

Pumpkin Patch Finger Print: Dip your thumb or index finger in orange paint and stamp it on paper. Draw green stems and leaves. Decorate pumpkin patch.

Playdough Pumpkins: Roll round pumpkins with orange playdough. Use small art pieces to decorate pumpkins. Make pumpkin fun pumpkin faces.

Five Little Pumpkins: Use brown paper to cut paper strips and glue the gate. Cut out 5 orange pumpkins. Draw faces on pumpkins: smiling, pouting, yawing, crying, and laughing. Glue pumpkins on the gate and sing the Five Little Pumpkins.

Q-tip or Pencil Pumpkin Paint: Draw a giant pumpkin or use a template. Use Q-tips or pencil top erasers, dip in paint to cover the pumpkin with paint. Practice finger pinch.

Pumpkin Mat Man: Mat Man is a popular activity in preschool that supports the development of body awareness and drawing. (Learn more about Mat Man at Learning Without Tears.) Transform Mat Man to a Pumpkin Mat Man to invigorate learning. Substitute his body with a pumpkin, step up the fun, and add a pumpkin head.  

Gourds & Rubber bands: Practice fine motor skills by placing rubber bands on the small gourds. It’s a pretty challenging and rewarding task for little fingers.

Pumpkin Hand Print: Have fun with finger paint. Make small or big pumpkin prints.

Pumpkin Bracelet: Pipe cleaner and orange beads make a simple fall pumpkin bracelet.

Paper Plate Pumpkin: Cover the paper plate with orange paint. Personalize details to make your unique pumpkin design.

Pick-up Pumpkins: Pick up orange pompoms and/or pumpkin erasers with tweezers. Squeeze the tweezers tight and release them to transfer the pumpkin into the bin.

Finally, carve out some good times this fall with your cutest pumpkins on the patch!

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