Pumpkin Heads!

Here's a mix of pumpkin stories and storytime rhymes. The kids had a blast creating different pumpkin puppets using magazines, googly eyes, stickers and markers.

Opening Song: Hello, Friends

Opening Rhyme: Open, Shut Them

Book 1: Penguin and Pumpkin by Salina Yoon

Book 2: Pumpkin Heads! by Wendell Minor

Rhyme: If You’re Happy and You Know It

If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands.

If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands.

If you’re happy and you know it, then you’ll really want to show it.

If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands.

(Continue with additional verses)

If you’re angry and you know it, stomp your feet….

If you’re silly and you know it, wiggle around….

If you’re sad and you know it, rub your eyes (“boo hoo”)….
If you're surprised and you know it, say "Oh my!"....

Fingerplay: Pumpkin on the Ground (Credit: DLTK -http://www.dltk-holidays.com/halloween/pumpkinpumpkin.html)
Tune: Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

Pumpkin, pumpkin on the ground (Crouch down)

How’d you get so big and round? (Stretch arms out wide and then make circle)

Once you were a seed so small (Pretend to hold a seed)

Now you are a great big ball! (Make huge circle with arms)
Pumpkin, pumpkin on the ground (Crouch down)
How’d you get so big and round? (Stretch arms out wide and then make circle)


Book 3: How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? by Margaret McNamara

Rhyme: Two Little Blackbirds
Two little blackbirds sitting on a hill (hold up two pointer fingers)
One named Jack, (hold out right pointer finger)
And one named Jill. (hold out left pointer finger)
Fly away Jack. (place right hand behind back)
Fly away Jill. (place left hand behind back)
Come back Jack, (bring right pointer back out)
Come back Jill.  (bring left pointer back out)

Two little blackbirds sitting on a cloud
One named Soft,
And one named Loud.
Fly away Soft,
Fly away Loud.
Come back Soft,
Come back Loud.

Two little black birds sitting on a stick

One named slow

And one named quick.

Fly away slow,

Fly away quick.

Come back slow,

Come back quick.

Book 4: Piggies in the Pumpkin Patch

Book 5: Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper

Closing Song: The More We Get Together

Craft: Pumpkin Puppets