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Pumpkin Worksheets

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Pumpkin patch pages that practice real skills: counting, size, fine motor work, teen numbers, the P sound, sight words, reading, writing and tens and ones.

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Pumpkin activities for preschool

A pumpkin patch coloring page, count the pumpkins, trace the pumpkin vines, big and small pumpkins, a pumpkin playdough mat and a pumpkin color by number.

Pumpkin worksheets for kindergarten

Count the pumpkin seeds 11 to 20, pumpkin addition within 10, the P sound, a color by sight word pumpkin, a pumpkin writing prompt, a read-aloud about a big pumpkin and pumpkin word tracing.

Pumpkin worksheets for 1st grade

Pumpkin patch word problems, a nonfiction passage about pumpkins, a story about a pumpkin that rolled away, describe a pumpkin with adjectives, a pumpkin patch word search and pumpkin seed tens and ones.

Print at 100% (actual size) for the cleanest tracing lines.

About these pumpkin worksheets

These pumpkin worksheets bring the pumpkin patch into math and literacy practice. Preschoolers color a pumpkin patch, count pumpkins, trace curly vines, compare big and small pumpkins, roll a playdough pumpkin and color by number. Kindergartners count pumpkin seeds as 10 and some more, add pumpkins, find pictures that begin with p, color by sight word, listen to a read-aloud and write about their own pumpkin. 1st graders solve pumpkin patch word problems, read a nonfiction text about pumpkins, describe a pumpkin with adjectives, write a silly story and count seeds in tens and ones.

For how a pumpkin grows from seed to vine to pumpkin, see Pumpkin Life Cycle. The pumpkin seed pages are a great follow-up to scooping out a real pumpkin.

Every page is black and white, prints on US Letter or A4, and pages with one right answer have an answer key on page 2.

Standards

  • ELOF P-MATH 3Child understands the relationship between numbers and quantities.
  • ELOF P-MATH 5Child associates a quantity with written numerals up to 5 and begins to write numbers.
  • ELOF P-MATH 8Child measures objects by their various attributes using standard and non-standard measurement. Uses differences in attributes to make comparisons.
  • ELOF P-PMP 3Child demonstrates increasing control, strength, and coordination of small muscles.
  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.NBT.A.1Compose and decompose numbers from 11 to 19 into ten ones and some further ones, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each composition or decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 18 = 10 + 8); understand that these numbers are composed of ten ones and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine ones.
  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.OA.A.1Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.ADemonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.CRead common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does).
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.1With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.1.APrint many upper- and lowercase letters.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K.2Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.
  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.NBT.B.2Understand that the two digits of a two-digit number represent amounts of tens and ones.
  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.A.1Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.1.2Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.1.1.FUse frequently occurring adjectives.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.1.2.DUse conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.1.3Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.

How to use them

  1. Pick the group for your child's grade, or spread the pages across a pumpkin week in October.
  2. Scoop out a pumpkin together and save the seeds. Wash and dry them to use as counters on the counting pages.
  3. Group real seeds in tens in small cups before the 1st grade tens and ones page.
  4. Use the describe a pumpkin page with a real pumpkin on the table so children can look, touch and lift it.

Teaching tips

  • Preschool: line up three real pumpkins or squash by size before the big and small page.
  • Kindergarten: on the pumpkin seed page, fill the ten frame first and say "ten", then count on.
  • 1st grade: if a child counts all the seeds one by one, ask, "How many full tens can you see?"
  • No pumpkin? Orange paper circles work well as counters.

Questions teachers and parents ask

When should I use pumpkin worksheets?

In October, around a pumpkin patch trip, a pumpkin carving day or a fall harvest unit. They are not Halloween pages, so they work in any class.

Do you have pumpkin life cycle pages?

Yes. Pumpkin Life Cycle covers seed, sprout, vine, flower and pumpkin. These pumpkin worksheets focus on math and literacy.

Is there an answer key?

Yes. Every page with one right answer has an answer key on page 2 of the same PDF. Coloring, tracing, playdough and writing pages do not need one.

Are there Halloween pages too?

Yes. Halloween Worksheets has friendly ghosts, bats, candy and costumes, with separate pages for preschool, kindergarten and 1st grade.