A Toddler Unit On Pumpkins
8:45-9:00 Arrival
9:00-9:15 Morning
Meeting
9:15-10:30 Work/Center
Time
10:30-10:45 Clean-up Time
10:45-11:00 Snack
11:00-11:15 Circle Time
11:15-11:50 Outdoor/Indoor
11:50-12:00 Prepare for
Lunch
12:00-12:45 Lunch and
Clean-up
12:45-1:00 Story Time
1:00-2:30 Nap Time
2:30-3:00 Quiet Work
Time
3:00-3:15 Clean-up
3:15-3:30 Story Time &
Dismissal
1. Five Little Pumpkins
2. My Jack-O-Lantern
By: Nancy J. Skarmeas
3. A Pumpkin For Pooh
By: Gus Alavezos
4. The Teletubbies: The Magic Pumpkin
By: Andrew Davenport
5. Pooh’s Pumpkin Surprise
By: Mary Hogan
6. Pumpkin Faces: Glow in the Dark
By: Emma Rose
Concepts
1. Pumpkins are orange
2. Pumpkins are round
3. Pumpkins have seeds
4. Pumpkins have green leaves
5. Pumpkins grow in a patch
Materials Needed
1. Colors
2. Paints
3. Books
4. Glue Sticks
5. Paintbrushes
6. Paper Bags
7. Coloring Pages
8. Pumpkins
9. Pumpkin Cutouts
10. Baskets
11. Socks for puppets
12. Paper Plates
13. String
14. Napkins
15. Pudding
16. Cones
17. Whipped Topping
18. Pumpkin Pie Filling
19. Construction Paper
Centers & Interest Areas
1. Art Center
~Use finger paints to paint pumpkins, make paper bag pumpkins.
2. Library Center
~Provide numerous books about pumpkins for the children to read
3. Food Center
~Provide ingredients needed to make pumpkin bars, pumpkin pudding
cones, and pumpkin slushies
4. Computer/Video Center
~Have a television with different videos about pumpkins available for
the children and some computer programs for the children to work
with.
5. Computer Software
~Have a computer available with different software dealing with
pumpkins for the children to explore on
6. Sensory Center
~Have pumpkins here with the tops cut off so the children are able to
feel what the pumpkin feels
like in the inside.
7. Coloring Center
~Have pictures of pumpkins that the children can color on their own.
Domains
1. Aesthetic
~Sing songs: Mr. Pumpkin, Five Little Pumpkins, Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater
~Make pumpkin puppets
~Read the story The Little Orange House
~Pumpkin Painting
2. Pretend Play
~Finger puppet show
~Pumpkin Masks
~Garden Stand
3. Language/Emergent Literacy
~The Little Orange House Story
~Singing of the songs
~The library area
4. Social
~Pumpkin hunt
~Song singing
~Pumpkin puppets
~The Little Orange House Story
~Lunch and Snack
5. Physical
~Finger puppets (fine-motor)
~Pumpkin Painting (fine-motor)
~Pumpkin Hunt (gross-motor)
~Garden Stand (gross-motor)
~Coloring (fine-motor)
6. Construction
~Coloring
~Painting
~Pumpkin Masks
~Garden Stand
7. Cognitive
~All of our activities include the cognitive domain.
Multicultural Aspect
~Poster of children of different ethnic backgrounds around one big pumpkin
~Provide books of children from different ethnic backgrounds that involve pumpkins
Adapting for Special Needs
~When they paint the pumpkins, if they cannot hold the paintbrush they will paint with their fingers instead
~Teach the children how to say “Orange Pumpkin” with using sign language
