Digital Pumpkin Carving

A digital pumpkin-decorating slideshow links to typed writing slides where students compose a short story about their pumpkin, paired with matching printable lined writing templates.

Year groups: Not Year Specific
File type: Microsoft PowerPoint
Editable: Yes

Updated Aug 10, 2022

Subject: Seasons, Creative Writing, Holiday & Seasonal, Writing, English
Topic: Digital, Pumpkin Carving
Editable: Yes

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About this resource

This Digital Pumpkin Carving is a fun activity for students to enjoy during the fall season.

This can be assigned into Google Classroom for students to work on at home or as an early finisher's activity.

Students will pick a pumpkin from the patch and begin to decorate it.

When they are finished carving their pumpkin, they will type a story about their pumpkin.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Students will compose a short narrative about a pumpkin they have decorated, either by typing on a slide or writing on a lined template.

Teaching tips

Have students complete the digital pumpkin decoration first, then use the linked writing slide to narrate what they created.
Use the printable lined templates as a paper alternative for classrooms without one-to-one devices.
Pair the writing prompt with a fall or pumpkin vocabulary list to give students descriptive words before they write.

Skills covered

Narrative writing — students compose a short story describing their decorated pumpkin.
Digital navigation — students use clickable slide links to move from the decorating screen to the writing screen.
Handwriting on ruled lines — students transfer their pumpkin story onto the printed lined template as an alternative to typing.