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Five Little Pumpkins: Playdough Play Retelling Activity

October 6, 2014 • 10 Comments

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Our Halloween book collection seems to grow every year.  No matter how many books we acquire, we return to one of our old favorites- Five Little Pumpkins.

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Five Little Pumpkins Activity

The Book

Five Little Pumpkins by Dan Yaccarino is a short little rhyme about five pumpkins sitting on a gate.  Each pumpkin rolls away during the chant. It’s a cute book that is not at all scary.  I’m not a big fan of scary Halloween books for kids.

The Activity

Make

After reading the story countless times, we made a batch of pumpkin playdough.  We used the pumpkin playdough recipe from Learn~Play~Imagine.   It’s so soft and smells amazing!

Roll five playdough balls.  Add googly eyes and a green bead for a stem on each pumpkin.

pumpkin playdough pieces to use with Five Little Pumpkins

Create a gate.  We used a small box and cut five small slits on the top.  Stick a popsicle stick in each slit.

The pumpkins are now ready to sit on the gate.

Play

You are now ready to do a story retelling or two or three!

Check out some of our favorite Halloween books to sing, dance and chant with during the holiday.  You will also want to play these fun candy corn inspired literacy games!

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About Jodie Rodriguez

Jodie Rodriguez is a mom of two young boys and an early childhood/elementary educator with over 20 years of experience. Jodie's passion is helping parents, teachers, librarians and anyone else interested in nurturing and reaching ALL of our youngest growing readers.

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  1. children stories says

    October 22, 2014 at 11:44 am

    I liked how the story was scary at first butt in the end it was
    really sweet. Although I would have loved it if there
    was more action and suspence in the story.

    Reply
  2. Tiffiny says

    October 12, 2014 at 10:55 pm

    My daughter is LOVING this book right now, and I’ve been trying to think of a way to extend it. We are so doing this…I wanted to make pumpkin scented playdough anyway. Thanks for the idea!

    Reply
    • Jodie Rodriguez says

      October 13, 2014 at 4:22 pm

      Great, I hope you and your daughter have lots of fun with it!

      Reply
  3. Jennifer Tammy says

    October 12, 2014 at 9:10 pm

    I just love this idea!

    Reply
  4. Natasha says

    October 10, 2014 at 8:22 am

    Super cute and would be a lot of fun to play along with the book.

    Reply
  5. Samantha @ Stir the Wonder says

    October 9, 2014 at 2:06 pm

    What a cute literacy activity! Thanks for linking up at the Thoughtful Spot Weekly Blog Hop! We hope you stop by again next week!

    Reply

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