Pumpkins – Toddler – LIBRIONYIAN

Introduction	Hello Everybody, Yes Indeed
Fun Opening	Jack-O’-Lantern, Jack-O’-Lantern Jack-O’-Lantern, Jack-O’-Lantern, turn around (spin around) Jack-O’-Lantern, Jack-O’-Lantern, roll on the ground. (roll hands over each other). Jack-O’-Lantern, Jack-O’-Lantern, dance on your toes (walk on tiptoes) Jack-O’-Lantern, Jack-O’-Lantern, light up your nose. (touch nose) Jack-O’-Lantern, Jack-O’-Lantern, reach up high (reach hands up high) Jack-O’-Lantern, Jack-O’-Lantern, jump to the sky. (jump) Jack-O’-Lantern, Jack-O’-Lantern, smile with heat. (point to smile). Source: Artsy Toddler Storytimes: A Year’s Worth of Ready-To-Go Programming by Carol Garnett Hopkins
Book	Pumpkin Trouble by Jan Thomas
Nursery Rhyme	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.
Book	You’re My Little Pumpkin Pie by Natalie Marshal
ASL	Pumpkin
Flannel	Recognize the Pumpkin Face We identified the different feelings of the jack-o-lanterns. Here is the pattern I used. We then sang this song with the different feelings. Where’s My Pumpkin Tune: Where is Thumbkin Where’s my pumpkin? Where’s my pumpkin? Here it is! Here it is! (______) jack-o-lantern. (______) jack-o-lantern. Looks likes this. Looks like this. Source: Sing a Song of Season: Over 200 Original Songs, Poems, and Fingerplays by The Mailbox
Action Rhyme	Pumpkin, Pumpkin Pumpkin, pumpkin on the ground (touch the ground) How’d you get so big and round? (make a big circle) Once you were a seed so small (pinch fingers together) Now you are a great big ball (make a big circle overhead) Pumpkin, pumpkin on the ground (touch the ground) How’d you get so big and round? (make a big circle) Source:SurLaLune Storytime
Action Rhyme	Pumpkins Over There Pumpkins small,(put hands low where a small pumpkin might stand). And pumpkins tall, (raise hands high up in the air Pumpkins, pumpkins, everywhere (spin around) Pumpkins fat, (move hands out far to the sides) And pumpkins thins, (move hands close together in front of body). Pumpkins, pumpkins, over there! (point across the room with both hands. Source: Artsy Toddler Storytimes: A Year’s Worth of Ready-To-Go Programming by Carol Garnett Hopkins
Action Rhyme	Pumpkins Are Growing Pumpkins are growing On the ground (point downward) Look at all the pumpkins Orange and round! (form circle with arms) Source: Busy Bees Fun for Two’s and Three’s by Elizabeth McKinnon
Dance Song	I’m a Little Seed by Carole Stephens
Dance Song	Pass the Pumpkin by Carole Stephens We passed a pumpkin around in a circle. I did modify the instructions.
Cool Down	The Alphabet and we counted to 10.
Goodbye Song	Say Goodbye