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!
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.
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.
Create a fun and easy early math shapes sticky wall for your toddler or preschooler this Halloween! It’s a wonderful way to practice shape recognition.
Paper Weaving Fall Printables – Fine Motor Activity
These Paper Weaving Fall Printables are perfect to keep those little fingers busy this season!! Also helps improve concentration and hand-eye coordination.
This easy yarn pumpkin craft for toddlers is a fun way to explore the fall season, and to get ready for Halloween too. The bright orange yarn and colorful crayons used in this activity provide sensory and fine motor fun for kids.
These q-tip painted pumpkins are absolutely adorable! They make such an easy and colorful fall craft for kids of all ages. A great Thanksgiving centerpiece idea that kids can make themselves.
Need a last minute pumpkin decorating idea for Halloween? Using just a pencil and thumb tacks, you can have a fully decorated pumpkin with zero mess! Halloween is less than 2 weeks away, and you have
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.
Tara is the brains behind Homeschool Preschool, where her journey from preschool and public school teacher to homeschooling mom of three fuels her passion for early childhood education. With a blend of expertise and firsthand experience, Tara’s writings offer practical tips and engaging resources to support families in creating meaningful learning adventures at home.
