Storytime: Pumpkins

Welcome Message/Guidelines (See Guidelines Post)

Hello Song: We Clap and Sing Hello (Jbrary)

Tune: The Farmer in the Dell

We clap and sing hello, we clap and sing hello

With our friends at storytime.

We clap and sing hello!

Stretch/Action Song: Pumpkin, Pumpkin (Found on Storytime Katie; Credit Step by Step - Pumpkin Theme)

Tune: Twinkle, Twinkle Little start

Pumpkin, Pumpkin big and round (touch the ground)

How'd you get so big and round? (makes a circle)

Once you were a seed so small (pinch fingers together)

Now you're a great big ball! (make a big circle)

Pumpkin, pumpkin on the ground (touch the ground)

How'd you get so big and round!

Book 1: Ten Orange Pumpkins: A Counting Book by Stephen A. Savage

Felt Song/Activity: 5 Little Pumpkins

Read with the book: Pete the Cat: Five Little Pumpkins by James Dean

Read the story and share the page. Then follow along on the felt board

Book 2: Pumpkin Trouble by Jan Thomas

Fingerplay/Action Song: 1 little, 2 little, 3 little pumpkins

1 little, 2 little, 3 little pumpkins

4 little, 5 little, 6 little pumpkins

7 little, 8 little, 9 little pumpkins

at the pumpkin patch!

Book 3 (optional): Plumply, Dumply Pumpkin by Mary Serfozo, Illustrated by Valeria Petrone

Instruments/Props

Today, we will use shakers!

Let's Walk Around the Pumpkin (Musically Minded)

Tune: The More We Get Together

Let's walk around the pumpkin, the pumpkin, the pumpkin

Let's walk around the pumpkin and the wall fall down. (have kids sit down)

(March around, stomp around, and so on)

Pumpkin Seeds (words by me; Jbrary for original song)

Tune of Everyone Can Shake, Shake, Shake 

Pumpkin seeds go shake, shake, shake

Pumpkin seeds go shake, shake, shake

Pumpkin sees go shake, shake, shake

and let's make a  STOP!

Clean Up Song

Clean up, clean up, 

Everybody, everywhere.

Clean up, clean up, 

Everybody, do your share!

Or for Pre-k Storytime 

Have storytime kids bring their shakers or scarves the by color of the shaker or scarf.

Prop: Pass the Pumpkin (Musically Minded)

Pass the pumpkin all around.

List to the spooky sound.

ooo, oo, ooo, oo

Will it stop on you? Boo!

You can follow the instructions that's on Musically Minded. What I did was just ask the storytime kid to do something like spin around, jump up and down, touch their nose, and so on.

Clean Up Song

End Activity: Parachute!

Goodbye Song: We Clap Goodbye Like This (Jbrary)

Tune: The Farmer in the Dell 

We clap goodbye like this, We clap goodbye like this (clap)

with our friends at storytime. We clap goodbye like this. (clap)

You can also wave or stomp

Craft Time!

Book Photo Credit: Goodreads.com