Free Pumpkin Plans
Written by: Brianna Guild, MHSc SLP(C)
Date: October 6, 2026
Looking for some perfect pumpkin plans this fall? 🎃
I’ve rounded up a collection of pumpkin-themed educational videos, texts, books, activities, and songs to add your fall, Thanksgiving, and Halloween lesson plans! Whether you’re working on speech, language, or literacy skills, these pumpkin-themed ideas are easy to use and perfect for adding some seasonal fun to your therapy sessions or classroom.
Here are some activity parings, as well as a list of links with even more FREE pumpkin-themed resources.
Thank you to all these sources for sharing these resources for free!
Pumpkin Pairings for Lessons
Topic: Pumpkin Life Cycle
Focus: How pumpkins grow and change
Watch: Pumpkin Life Cycle Lesson for Kids on Stacy Crouse YouTube channel, or Life Cycle of a Pumpkin for Kids! | Learn About Pumpkins on Twinkl Teaching Resources - United States YouTube channel.
Read/Watch: From Seed to Pumpkin by Wendy Pfeffer on Bobby’s Backyard YouTube channel (nonfiction read aloud), or Pumpkin Time! on ReadWorks (nonfiction text, grade 1-2).
Activity: Students use pictures or a graphic organizer to retell the pumpkin life cycle orally or in writing using transition words such as first, next, then, and finally.
Topic: Pumpkin Facts & Features
Focus: Learning more about pumpkins and building vocabulary
Watch: Why are pumpkins orange? on Mystery Science YouTube channel, or Parts of a Pumpkin for Kids - Fall Learning - Pumpkin Fun Facts on Lil' Sprouts Kindergarten Prep YouTube channel.
Read: Pumpkin Article on Britannica Kids.
Activities: Complete a pumpkin parts labelling activity and describe each part using adjectives and/or functions (e.g., This pumpkin skin is smooth and orange. The flat seeds are inside the pumpkin.). Create a pumpkin fact file by finding and record interesting facts, then turn their facts into complete sentences or a short nonfiction paragraph.
Topic: Pumpkin Patch & Fall Experiences
Focus: Sequencing and describing an experience
Watch: Let's Visit A Pumpkin Patch! | Caitie's Classroom Field Trips | Learn How To Make A Jack O'Lantern on Super Simple Play with Caitie! YouTube channel, or Virtual Field Trip: Pumpkins through Schuster's Farm.
Read/Watch: Now You Have A Pumpkin Patch by Molly McNamara Carter on the Lawley Publishing YouTube channel (nonfiction read aloud), or A Day at the Pumpkin Farm on ReadWorks (nonfiction text, grade K-1).
Activity: Students use pictures or a graphic organizer to plan a trip to the pumpkin patch (e.g., what they would do at pumpkin patch and explain their choices) orally or in writing using transition words such as first, next, then, and finally.
Topic: Describing Pumpkins
Focus: Describing, comparing & contrasting, and building vocabulary
Watch: Why are pumpkins so popular every fall? on Mystery Science YouTube channel, or A Pumpkin Grows | STEM for Kids on Scholastic YouTube channel.
Read: Pumpkin Problems Poem on Kenn Nesbitt’s Poetry4kids.com
Activity: Students use the video(s) and poem to identify and describe pumpkin features. Create a pumpkin description using categories such as colour, size, shape, parts, and texture. Then have students compare & contrast two pumpkins (real or images) using words like both, different, larger, smaller, smooth, and bumpy.
Pumpkin Educational Videos
Mystery Science YouTube channel
Why are pumpkins so popular every fall?
Mystery Science YouTube channel
A Pumpkin Grows | STEM for Kids
Scholastic YouTube channel
Pumpkin Life Cycle Lesson for Kids
Stacy Crouse YouTube channel
Life Cycle of a Pumpkin for Kids! | Learn About Pumpkins
Twinkl Teaching Resources - United States channel
Parts of a Pumpkin for Kids - Fall Learning - Pumpkin Fun Facts
Lil' Sprouts Kindergarten Prep YouTube channel
Let's Visit A Pumpkin Patch! | Caitie's Classroom Field Trips | Learn How To Make A Jack O'Lantern
Super Simple Play with Caitie! YouTube channel
Schuster's Farm
Pumpkin Texts
Kenn Nesbitt’s Poetry4kids.com
Britannica Kids
ReadWorks (nonfiction, grade K-1)
ReadWorks (nonfiction, grade 1-2)
ReadWorks (fiction, grade 7-8)
Massive UK Pumpkin Sets New World Record
News For Kids
Pumpkin Books
The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin by Joe Troiano
Fiction read aloud on the Spookley the Square Pumpkin YouTube channel
The Little Green Pumpkin by Molly McNamara Carter
Fiction read aloud on the Lawley Publishing YouTube channel
Now You Have A Pumpkin Patch by Molly McNamara Carter
Nonfiction read aloud on the Lawley Publishing YouTube channel
From Seed to Pumpkin by Wendy Pfeffer
Nonfiction read aloud on Bobby’s Backyard YouTube channel
Pumpkin Activities
SLP Literacy Corner blog
Sentence strip pumpkins
Silent e pumpkins
Build-a-Jack-o’-lantern
and more!
Sarah Paul on TPT
3 decodable reading passages
Writing prompts
Pumpkin measuring recording sheet
Sentence worksheet
Pumpkin facts sheet
Pumpkin Writing Prompts Lesson: Digital Creative Writing
Perkins School for the Blind article
Pumpkin Songs
Five Little Pumpkins | Halloween Song | Explore Emotions | Super Simple Songs
Super Simple Songs - Kids Songs YouTube channel
We're Going To The Pumpkin Patch | Kids Songs | Super Simple Songs
Super Simple Songs - Kids Songs YouTube channel
"I Picked One Pumpkin" by The Laurie Berkner Band | Halloween Kids Song | Counting | Thanksgiving
The Laurie Berkner Band - Kids Songs YouTube channel
Do You Know How Pumpkins Grow - The Kiboomers Preschool Songs - Fall Circle Time Song
The Kiboomers - Kids Music Channel YouTube channel
Five Little Pumpkins Halloween Song | Sing and Count with The Kiboomers
The Kiboomers - Kids Music Channel YouTube channel
"The Pumpkin Pie Song!" Danny Go! Holiday Dance Songs for Kids
Danny Go! YouTube channel
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