Pumpkin Life Cycle Activities

Explore how a pumpkin grows through hands-on sequencing activities. Students use life-cycle vocabulary as they make crowns, necklaces, spinners, and small books that show the stages.
Grades
Pre-K–2
Pages
23
File type
PDF
Preparation
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Updated Sep 26, 2021

Subject
Science, Life Sciences
Topic
Pumpkin life cycle, Sequencing
Resource types
Crafts, Activities
Preparation
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Product description

From the author

Explore pumpkin growth with eight craft and vocabulary formats: a crown, paper pieces for two necklaces, a spinner, a lift-a-flap circle, a flap booklet, color and black-and-white sliders, picture-and-word cards, and a lift-a-page book.

The 23-page PDF includes two instruction pages. Select and print the components you want, then supply coloring and assembly materials. The word cards have letter boxes for separately supplied Bananagrams or Scrabble tiles. Components use different lengths of growth sequence.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Describe the pumpkin growth sequence shown on a chosen craft

  • Recognize pumpkin vocabulary and build the printed words with letter tiles

  • Assemble a necklace, slider or booklet to retell the sequence

Teaching tips

  • Have students wear the completed crown or necklace while retelling the sequence shown on that craft aloud as a quick daily review.

  • Use the word cards with Bananagrams or Scrabble tiles, as the packet suggests, to fold in a light spelling review alongside the science vocabulary.

  • Send the lift-a-page booklet home as a low-prep way for students to retell the sequence to a family member.

Skills covered

  • Life-cycle sequencing — students review the growth sequence shown on their necklace, spinner or slider.

  • Vocabulary and word building — students use picture-and-word cards to recognize terms and arrange letter tiles in the printed boxes.

  • Fine-motor craft assembly — students color, cut, tape, and staple crowns, sliders, and booklets to build their own review tools.

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What activity formats are included?

The set includes a crown, sequencing-necklace activity, spinner, flap pieces, slider, word cards, and a small life-cycle book.

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Resource details

Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • Plant life cycle

  • Sequencing

  • Vocabulary

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