Pumpkin Fine Motor Activities
Strengthen finger and hand muscles with these pumpkin fine motor activities for preschoolers. They’re perfect for fall!
As you begin planning out your preschool pumpkin activities, be sure to leave time in your schedule for strengthening motor skills.
These activities are so much fun for little ones, they won’t even know they’re working
It’s important to provide activities that will strengthen the muscles in your little one’s hands, fingers, and wrists. Cutting, lacing, and tracing lines are great ways to strengthen these muscles.
Pumpkin Fine Motor Activities
These activities are filled with fine motor skill builders. They’ll help your preschoolers get ready for handwriting and strengthen hand-eye coordination.
Homemade Pumpkin Spice Playdough
Squeezing, rolling, and manipulating playdough is a great skill builder. This pumpkin spice playdough is perfect for fall!
Playdough Jack-O-Lanterns with Pop-In Features
The free printable template makes these playdough jack-o-lanterns easy to create. Kids will build motor strength as they push facial features into their pumpkins.
Jack-O-Lantern Paper Pumpkins
Strengthen fine motor muscles and practice scissor skills when creating these adorable jack-o-lantern paper pumpkins.
Halloween Pumpkin Art Salt Painting
When creating this Halloween pumpkin art, squeezing colored water onto the salt is the perfect way to strengthen the small muscles in your preschooler's fingers.
Pumpkin Dot Art (Free Template)
Get your hole punch ready for this fun pumpkin dot art project. Squeezing the hole punch and gluing paper dots are both fine motor skill builders.
Pumpkin Art with Pointillism
Using q-tips to paint a pumpkin is a great way to strengthen fine motor muscles. Grasping the q-tip and making dots on the paper are both fun activities for kids.
Pumpkin Shapes Sticky Wall
I can't wait to try this activity with my grandson this fall. He'll love sticking shapes on the sticky wall pumpkins, and I'll love sneaking in a little skill building while he plays.
Paper Weaving Fall Printables
Cutting strips of paper and weaving them in the shapes is the perfect fine motor activity for fall. Kids will love the pumpkin alongside a few other fun fall shapes.
Yarn Pumpkin Craft for Toddlers
Toddlers can practice their scissor skills as they cut strips of yarn to create this fun pumpkin.
Yarn Pumpkin Craft
This yarn pumpkin craft is perfect for strengthening motor skills. What a fun activity for fall.
Pumpkin Alphabet Traceable Letters
Rolling and manipulating playdough is a great way to strengthen fine motor muscles. This set of pumpkin alphabet playdough mats is perfect for preschool and kindergarten.
Free Pumpkin Activity Printables
Strengthen fine motor muscles and hand-eye coordination with these free pumpkin "find the letter" pages.
Paper Pumpkin Craft
Little ones will love cutting paper strips and rolling them to create this adorable paper pumpkin craft.
Q-tip Painted Pumpkins
Kids will love decorating pumpkins with q-tip painting! Each child's pumpkin will be unique.
Thumbtack Pumpkin
Little ones will enjoy creating faces on their pumpkins with thumbtacks. The acts of picking up the tacks and pushing them into the pumpkin are both great for strengthening hand and finger muscles.
PRESCHOOL BOOKS ABOUT PUMPKINS
Fill your book basket with a great collection of pumpkin books for kids. Most of these books can be found at your local library or used bookstore.
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The Run-Away Pumpkin – On a windy autumn day, Marla Little comes running down the hill, yelling, “Help! My giant pumpkin is rolling away! Onward it goes, rolling and turning, with no sign of stopping! Diddle-dee-doo! Oh, what shall I do?”
How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? – Mr. Tiffin and his students explore skip counting and estimation in a fun pumpkin-themed classroom experiment!
The Pumpkin Book – The book features bold, clearly-labeled illustrations, directions for drying seeds, and even how to carve funny or scary faces into your pumpkin (with an adult’s help), along with a fascinating section on pumpkin facts and lore. Perfect for aspiring farmers and kids who can’t wait for Halloween!
Teaching Resources
Learn all about the parts of a pumpkin. How do they work? What do they do? This parts of a pumpkin felt board set is simple enough for preschoolers and detailed enough for use within homeschool or early elementary classrooms.
Provide your preschooler with hours of Halloween fun with the 5 Little Pumpkins Sensory Bin!
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