- Count from Five Little Pumpkins Round down to none with a piggyback song based on Five Green and Speckled Frogs which I created several years ago for the flannel board. (A free printable adaptation, Four Little Pumpkins Round, is also available here.)
- Practice reading with the Where is the Pumpkin? printable reader available to download free courtesy of Jamie Harnar at Teachers Pay Teachers.
- Tell the very simple story of Mr. Scarecrow's Jack o'Lantern using puppets or flannel board pieces.
- Act out the traditional Five Little Pumpkins rhyme.
- Retell This is Not a Pumpkin by Bob Staake using a puppet or flannel board.
- Sing Dr. Jean's Once I Had a Pumpkin, and review the vocabulary for each of the parts of a face.
- Spell your name using Colorful Pumpkin Seeds, as shown at Fun-a-Day.com.
- Share the rhyme Five Giant Pumpkins on the flannel board, as suggested by Sarah from Read Rabbit Read.
- Retell The Very Hungry Caterpillar as The Very Hungry Pumpkin using this clever idea from Crayon Freckles.
- Review the alphabet with a Pumpkin Letter Recognition activity, available as a free printable from Aloha Kindergarten.
