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Alphabet Letter Patterns: Leaves and Pumpkins (b/w) The letters of the alphabet, presented in black outline, filled with pumpkins and leaves. Four letters to a page. Great for bulletin boards, desk decorations, and more. These match our October calendar header.
Bar Graph (create): Pumpkin Seed Experiment Use the graph to show the results of a pumpkin seed experiment.
Coloring Page: Halloween - Bat and Pumpkin  
Coloring Page: Halloween - Cat and Pumpkin Space inside the pumpkin to draw a jack-o'-lantern face or write a story.
Comprehension: Carving Old Jack (elem/ upper elem) Directions for pumpkin carving, followed by comprehension questions.
Counters: Pumpkins (b/w)  
Craft: Lunch Bag Pumpkin (primary) Create a great pumpkin decoration with a brown paper lunch bag.
Craft: Pumpkin Pencil Tops Decorate the top of your pencil like a jack-o-lantern.
Craft: Pumpkin Pin (easy) Make a nice pin for fall/Halloween.
Cut and Paste: Jack-o'-lantern Faces Cut out these faces and paste them on pumpkin shapes.
Experiment: Pumpkin Seed (elementary) Pumpkin seed fun with 6 pages for learning centers or group projects.
Learning Center: Halloween - Pumpkin pages Practice reading and following directions and cut and paste creativity while making a jack-o'-lantern. Pumpkin worksheet, Faces worksheet, cover page, and directions here. You will need scissors, glue, and markers/crayons.
Paper Bag Puppet: Halloween theme set Ghost, pumpkin, and witch, combined in one easy download.
Picture Graph: Pumpkins Use a picture graph to determine who has the most pumpkins, etc.
Sewing Card: Pumpkin Cute sewing card for little hands. Print on tagboard and laminate for longer use.
Shapebook: Halloween - Bat and Pumpkin Shapebook in the shape of a pumpkin and bat. Trace and cut out the primary lined pattern for a great student shapebook. 2 shapes on one page. Our shapebook generator is available to members.
Shapebook: November Words Simple November-themed vocabulary words in a pumpkin shape.
Shapebook: Pumpkin Patch [member-created with abctools] Trace and cut out. This pumpkin-shaped shapebook has a prompt for students to answer about a trip to the pumpkin patch. ("At the pumpkin patch, I saw...")
Trace and Color: Orange - Pumpkin Color the pumpkin orange. Trace the word orange. Write the word orange on the line.
Writing Paper: Scarecrow (elem) Lined paper with an illustration of a scarecrow and a crow at the top. (elementary) (20 pt. line, 1.25 spaces between lines)
Writing Prompt: Pumpkin Similes "A pumpkin is as big as a...." Seven simile prompts in a pumpkin shapebook.
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Nomenclature Cards: Pumpkin (blank to color) - foldable 2 foldable blank cards to color; these match our nomenclature cards.
Nomenclature Cards: Pumpkin (blank to color) - 4 4 blank cards to color; these match our nomenclature cards.
Nomenclature Cards: Pumpkin (blank to color) - 2 2 blank cards to color; these match our nomenclature cards.
Punch Pin Card: Pumpkin - 2 per page (Montessori/preschool) Use a push pin to prick small holes in the shape.
Punch Pin Card: Pumpkin - 4 per page (Montessori/preschool) Use a push pin to prick small holes in the shape.
Nomenclature Cards: Pumpkin Three-part cards: pumpkin, stem, vine, skin, ribs, pulp, seeds, strands.
Counters: Pumpkins (color)  
French: Le carré de citrouilles A trip to the pumpkin patch. Une excursion au carré de citrouilles.
Calendar: October (days) pumpkin theme
Writing Prompts: Pumpkins (elementary) Five great writing prompts for pumpkin-themed fairy tales (from "Gourdilocks and the Three Hares" to "Jack and the Pumpkin Vine"). Creative fun!
Writing Prompts: October (elementary) Complete the October-themed journal prompts (about fire safety, Columbus, Halloween...) inside this bat-and-pumpkin shapebook.
Writing Prompt: Pumpkin Similes (primary/ elementary) "A pumpkin is as big as..." Practice making themed similes.
Writing Prompt: Pumpkin Puns (primary/ elementary) "There's nothing to do and I'm gourd silly." Practice making your own puns!
Writing Paper: Halloween 2 - Bouncing Pumpkin Lined paper, portrait layout, with a bouncing pumpkin. Primary lines.
Writing Paper: Halloween - Scarecrow Lined paper, landscape layout, with a pumpkin and a scarecrow.
Writing Paper: Halloween - Pumpkin Lined paper, landscape layout, with a ghost and a pumpkin.
Worksheet: Directions and Pumpkins (primary) "Draw a scary face". Read and follow the directions to decorate each of the six pumpkin faces.
Word Problems: Pumpkins (elementary) Four addition word problems with a pumpkin theme.
Unit: Down at the Patch - Pumpkins (upper elem/middle school) This fourteen-page pumpkin unit includes creative thinking, graph and chart interpretation and problem-solving, and a logic problem.
Think and Write: Pumpkins (elem/upper elem) Pumpkins in transformation, pumpkins in space, pumpkins in advertising. Fantastic pumpkin-themed creative thinking and writing work for elementary/upper elementary students.
Theme Sign: Pumpkins  
Story Planner: Great Pumpkin "Josh and his friends grew the biggest pumpkin..." A writing prompt and two story planners to help write a great pumpkin story.
Shapebooks: Fall Four shapebooks in one download: apple, pumpkin, maple leaf, sunflower. Trace and cut out these unlined patterns for great student shapebooks.
Shapebook: Pumpkin, Pumpkin... [member-created with abctools] "Pumpkin, Pumpkin, What Do You See?" Writing prompts: draw and name things you see on Halloween. Trace and cut out the unlined pumpkin pattern for a great student shapebook.
Shapebook: Pumpkin (Blank) Trace and cut out the lined pumpkin pattern for a great student shapebook.
Shapebook: Pumpkin (blank) Trace and cut out the unlined pumpkin pattern for a great student shapebook.
Shapebook: Halloween - Pumpkin Poem [member-created with abctools]Trace and cut out. This pumpkin-shaped shapebook includes a fun poem ("Pumpkin,Pumpkin") for early readers.
Shapebook: Halloween - Bat and Pumpkin (primary) Shapebook in the shape of a pumpkin and bat. Trace and cut out the primary lined pattern for a great student shapebook.
Sequencing: Carving a Pumpkin (primary) six pages, use for sequencing
Research and Report: Pumpkin Write a report about pumpkins. Includes web, Venn diagram, acrostic form, report planner, did you know cards, report paper.
Rebus: Down at the Pumpkin Patch - full color (primary)  
Rebus: Down at the Pumpkin Patch (b/w)  
Pumpkins & Directions (preschool) "Color the pumpkin orange". A great seasonal pre-school book for coloring and practice following directions (directions can be read aloud for pre-readers).
Pattern: Pumpkin There are six blank pumpkin patterns to a page. Use for game cards, sight words, flashcards, etc.
Paper Bag Puppet: Halloween - Pumpkin Head  
Math Game: Pumpkin (elementary) A fall theme and addition/subtraction review are creatively combined.
Glyph: Halloween Pumpkin Turn the pumpkin into a jack-o-lantern by following the directions in the legend.
Fiction: Jack-o'-Lanterns (primary) "Anne wants to carve it, but her parents say she is too young." A Halloween-themed realistic fiction reading comprehension.
Fiction: Bobby Bear & the Pumpkin (primary) Bobby Bear is excited about Halloween. But all the pumpkins in town are sold- will it be Halloween without a jack-o'-lantern? Find out with this seasonal reading comprehension.
Dot to Dot: Jack-o'-Lantern (by 5s)  
Crossword: Pumpkins (elementary) 2 ACROSS: Season when pumpkins are enjoyed.
Comprehension: Pumpkins (elementary) A fact-filled reading comprehension about pumpkins.
Comprehension: Pumpkin Pie (upper elementary) Practice reading and understanding a recipe.
Comprehension: Pumpkin (primary) Easy reading comprehension with some basic pumpkin facts.
Coloring Page: Halloween - Pumpkin Color these kids with costumes and a big pumpkin, or trace and cut out the pattern to make a great shapebook.
Coloring Page: Giant Pumpkin Color this fun drawing of a giant pumpkin, or trace and cut out the pattern to make a great shapebook.
Coloring Page: Fall Leaves  
Color and Write: Pumpkin Six pages of pictures to color, showing how to carve a pumpkin, and space to write carving instructions or stories about Halloween.
Color and Write: Halloween - Tree with Decorations Fall tree surrounded by pumpkin bag decorations; small on a lined writing page, large on the coloring page.
Color and Write: Halloween - Cat & Jack A cat perches on top of a jack-o'-lantern; small on a lined writing page, large on the coloring page.
Color and Write: Fall Scene Cornstalk with a cat and pumpkins; small on a lined writing page, large on the coloring page.
 Clip Art: Pie: Pumpkin 1 Color food illustration
 Clip Art: Pumpkin 1 Color food illustration
 Clip Art: Pumpkin 1 B&W food illustration
 Clip Art: Pumpkin 3 Grayscale holidays illustration
 Clip Art: Pumpkin 3 Color holidays illustration
Clip Art: Pumpkin 2 (coloring page) coloring page
Clip Art: Pumpkin (coloring page) coloring page
Clip Art: Jack-o-Lantern 5 (coloring page) coloring page
Clip Art: Jack-o-Lantern 4 (coloring page) coloring page
Clip Art: Jack-o-Lantern 3 (coloring page) coloring page
Clip Art: Jack-o-Lantern 2 (coloring page) coloring page
Clip Art: Jack-o-Lantern 1 (coloring page) coloring page
 Clip Art: DYO Jack-o-Lantern Color design your own
 Clip Art: DYO Jack-o-Lantern B&W design your own
Clip Art: DYO Jack-o-Lantern (coloring page) design your own coloring page
Bulletin Board Trim: Pumpkin Patch (small) Straight edge, full color.
Bulletin Board Trim: Jack-o'-Lanterns (small) Straight edge, full color.
Border Paper: Pumpkins 2 (primary) [made with abctools] For fall and thanksgiving. Primary-lined border paper with pumpkins (and one turkey) in the surrounding border.
Border Paper: Pumpkins 1 (primary) [made with abctools] Primary-lined border paper with Jack-O'Lanterns in the surrounding border.
Border Paper: Pumpkins (preschool) Preschool lines; with spacer lines; with dashed mid-lines; landscape orientation; with color pumpkin graphics in the surrounding border
Booklet: Word Families (primary) [member-created with abctools] Book with pumpkin border to be used with word walls/word families
Book: The Stubborn Pumpkin (primary) Enhances vocabulary and comprehension for Laura Geringer's tale of a farmer who can't harvest his very large pumpkin until he gets some help from a little mouse.
Book: The Biggest Pumpkin Ever (primary) Enhances comprehension and vocabulary for Steven Kroll's book about two mice, (accidental) teamwork and a really HUGE pumpkin.
Book: The Berenstain Bears and the Prize Pumpkin (primary/elem) Comprehension, vocabulary skills and story mapping exercises enhance this Stan and Jan Berenstain book about competition.
Book: Pumpkin, Pumpkin (primary) Enhances vocabulary and comprehension for Jeanne Titherington's book about Jamie and his pumpkin.
Book: It's Pumpkin Time! (primary) Reinforces vocabulary and comprehension for Zoe Hall's seasonal book.
Book: Apples and Pumpkins (elementary) Enhances vocabulary and comprehension for the book by Anne Rockwell.
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