Plenty of Pumpkins

Find a plenty of resources and hands-on activities for learning all about pumpkins!

Pumpkin Ag in a Bag

McLean County (IL) teachers can request ag mags and pumpkin activity kits for their classroom: Click here

Online Reading Materials

• Types of Pumpkins Poster

Ag-tivities & Reading Materials

• PK-1st grades
  • Pumpkin Facts for Little Readers
  • Pumpkin Life Cycle Bracelet & Diagram
  • Pumpkin Chain
  • What’s Inside My Pumpkin?
• 2nd & 3rd grades
  • Pumpkin Jr. Ag Mag
  • Pumpkin Pie in a Bag
  • 3-D Pumpkin
• 4th – 6th grades
  • Pumpkin Ag Mag
    • Pumpkin AgVenture – Ag Mag Worksheet
  • Pumpkin Story & Math Activity
  • Exploding Pumpkin Experiment – Video Here
  • Pumpkin Catapult
  • Blackout Pumpkin Patch Poetry
• Middle/High School
  • Pumpkin Reader
  • Pumpkin Reader en Español
• Find more Pumpkin Lessons here!

Books to Read – set up a FREE account on www.openlibrary.org to read these online books for FREE!

• Pumpkins by Gail Gibbons
• How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? by Margaret McNamara

Pumpkin Recipes to Try

• Pumpkin Whole Wheat Pancakes
• Pumpkin Muffins
• Roast Pumpkin Seeds
• Baked Pumpkin Seeds
• Pumpkin Bread
• Pumpkin Squares

Virtual Field Trip to Heap’s Giant Pumpkin Farm

Heap’s Giant Pumpkin Farm from Illinois Agricultural Assoc. on Vimeo.

Click here for the Q & A

More Pumpkin Videos