Pumpkin Learning Centers | 18 Math, Literacy, and Fine Motor Activities

Set up hands-on pumpkin activities for preschool, pre-K, transitional kindergarten, and kindergarten. Children use counters, clip cards, match letters and sounds, build words, and put pictures in order. Choose a few activities for a fall unit, morning tubs, or small groups.

This 95-page US Letter PDF includes 18 reusable centers:

• Fine motor and tracing. Five counter mats, nine prewriting cards, 26 uppercase and lowercase letter models, and ten numeral tracing cards.

• Literacy. Seed letter matching, picture sorting for 12 beginning sounds, ten rhyme pairs, 40 sight word cards, a spelling mat, and cut-apart letter tiles.

• Math. Counting mats for 1–10, printable seed pieces, numeral, tally, finger and ten-frame cards, size ordering with two mats, ten shape clip cards, and eleven color bins.

• Thinking. Different-picture and odd-one-out cards, pumpkin pie and life cycle sequencing, five AB patterns, and twelve matching picture and shadow pairs.

Print the color pages at actual size, cut on the guides, and laminate reusable pieces if desired. Add clothespins for shape clips, counters or pom-poms for fine motor, and a dry-erase marker for laminated trace cards. Use the setup guide and page index to select materials. Two teacher check pages cover fixed responses.