Pumpkin Day

I’m a few days late posting about Pumpkin Day.  I had intended to blog about this day prior to Halloween but I just haven’t had time to until now.  So, please bare with me that this is an “already came and gone” post…maybe there will be an idea or two here that you can use next year though!

A lot of schools can’t exactly celebrate Halloween anymore… no parties, no costumes (although some do a “Dress Up Like A Book Character Day”), and no treat bags.  Since kids absolutely love Halloween though (and I do too!), here is an alternative to skirt around the day and instead celebrate “Pumpkin Day”. 

 Pumpkin Day is a non-scary educational celebration that revolves completely around pumpkins.  Ask parents to send in items and also invite them into the classroom for this fun day.  The classroom is set up into stations each revolving around a pumpkin activity such as describing, counting seeds, weighing, reading a story, measuring, float/sink and oxygen/fire experiments, etc. Students visit stations in small groups and keep track of their thinking/activities with a small workbook.

It’s such a wonderful activity.  The kids absolutely love it and have a blast, but they are also learning and meeting curriculum objectives!

If you’d like to do Pumpkin Day with your class, I’ve put together a ready-to-use guide!  This packet contains everything you need (except for donated items) to set up and run stations and teach about pumpkins and their life cycle!