P is for Pumpkins

A fall theme...with a bit of a Halloween twist!  Presented at Kindercare on October 7 and Welcome School on October 22.

Books

The Bumpy Little Pumpkin, by Margery Cuyler;
illustrated by Will Hillenbrand

How Big Could Your Pumpkin Grow?  by Wendell Minor

Sixteen Runaway Pumpkins  by Dianne Ochiltree;
illustrated by Anne-Sophie Lanquetin

Ten Orange Pumpkins  by Stephen Savage

Songs/Rhymes

Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater

Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater,

Had a wife and couldn't keep her;

He put her in a pumpkin shell

And there he kept her very well.

Pumpkins on the Ground

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)

Hop and Stop

Hop!  Hop!  Stop!

Hop!  Hop!  Stop!

Run a little, run a little

Sit down, plop!