The Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin
Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin is on stage in NYC jaround Halloween at Shadow Box Theater. Outside NYC you can download the Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin in digital book form from MobiStories and add it to the library in your pocket.
Learn all about Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin, how Farmer Joe planted the seeds and helped the pumpkins to grow, and how Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin's friends helped him overcome his fears.
This Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin Unit Study has games, activities, songs, crafts and projects for families, classrooms and homeschoolers. You can even wrap up this Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin's Unit Study with a Pumpkin Lapbook.
Just down load the story from MobiStories and plant the seeds of learning.
Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin Table of Contents
Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin
A Halloween Tale
Lumpy Bumpy was the funniest-looking pumpkin in Farmer Joe's pumpkin patch.
By the end of the story Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin becomes the scariest Jack O'Lantern of them all!
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Five Little Pumpkins
Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin was the Fifth Little Pumpkin
"There were five little pumpkins in Farmer Joe's pumpkin patch." Four were beautifully round and perfect. The fifth was awkwardly lumpy and bumpy.
1. Copy pictures of perfect and lumpy bumpy pumpkins.
2. Paste them onto cardstock squares and laminate them.
3. Children make patterns such as this AAAAB pattern above.
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Raffi's Singable Songs for the Very Young includes not only Five Little Pumpkins but also Five Little Frogs and Bumping Up and Down in my little Red Wagon. Each of these songs include many of the same words as well as high frequency words and are wonderful to use for choral reading.
Singable Songs for the Very Young, By Raffi, Ken Whiteley
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Five Little Pumpkins (Harper Growing Tree)
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Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin Playdough
Pumpkin Playdough
1 cup flour
1/2 cup salt
2 teaspoons cream of tarter
2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 tablespoon veg oil
1 cup water
6 drops red food coloring
15 drops of yellow food coloring
Combine dry ingredients in a pan. Add oil, water, food coloring and stir until smooth. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until it forms a ball.
Turn onto counter, let cool slightly, knead until smooth
Dough will keep in a plastic bag for about a week or more if you store it in the refrigerator. You can reheat it in the microwave.
Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin Playdough
To the above recipe add dried beans, peas, or if you want it to last a long time, crumpled bits of Styrofoam or stones and pebbles.
Farmer Joe and the Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin
Lifecycles are a core topic in every science curriculum. From Seed to Pumpkin explains how the pumpkin seeds that Farmer Joe planted sprouted and grew into pumpkins.
From Seed to Pumpkin (Welcome Books)
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Pumpkin Pumpkin
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Greeting Lumpy Bumpy Pumkin
Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin and Morning Meeting
The four other pumpkins would tease Lumpy Bumpy.
Children often are teased, bullied or feel left out. Morning Meeting is a wonderful time to bring up these feelings and discuss ways to help eachother feel accepted.
What kind of greeting could you use that would help the Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin feel welcome in your classroom, group or family?
99 Activities And Greetings: Great For Morning Meeting... And Other Meetings, Too!
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Caroline Crow's Pumpkin Pie
Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin is worried about being turned into a Pumpkin Pie.
Ingredients:
* 1/3 cup honey
* 2 Tablespoons molasses
* 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
* 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
* 2 large eggs
* 1 1/2 cups cooked and mashed Pumpkin
* 1 can Fat Free Evaporated Milk
* 1 unbaked deep-dish pie shell
Shadow Box Theater Presents!
Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin!
A Halloween Tale
See-More's Workshop's colorful picture books and Read Along/Move-Along audio are based on the musical puppet plays of New York City's award-winning Shadow Box Theatre.
They capture the excitement of live theatre and are perfect for storytelling time and for youngsters learning to read.
These wonderfully illustrated stories such as Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin are filled with dramatic impact, fun voices, and imaginative imagery, making reading aloud extra fun!
Excellent additions for your homeschool library, classroom, or listening corner.
- Shadow Box Theatre
- Shadowbox Theatre Home and Season Schedule
- Shadow Box Theatre
- Review of Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin
Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin uses Adjectives
There are all kinds of exciting words that could be used to describe Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin.
Help your children brainstorm words that could describe Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin.
Make a Bulletin Board of adjectives to help your children add more color to their writing.
By pointing to these words and using Word Wall activities and Cheers children will begin to use the words in their writing an soon learn to read these exciting new describing words.
More Adjectives, Cheers and Word Walls ideas
for the Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin
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Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin Word Wheel
The drawing of the Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin Word Wheel was drawn by my daughter.
To make a Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin Word Wheel paint a picture of the Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin and cut out a rectangle on the left hand side.
Cut a circle just a bit smaller than your pumpkin.
Use a paper fastener at the exact center to hold the two together making sure that the hole is big enough for the wheel to turn easily.
Write the letters ump on the pumpkin and in the rectangle write the letters b, d, h, j, p, pl,st, and th.
Your wheel can now spell the words:
bump, dump, hump, jump, pump, plump, stump, thump
The Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin Word Wheel can be used in a Learning Center where children write down the words they make and then draw a picture of that word. The pictures could be made into a Class -ump Book.
The picture of the Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin Word Wheel was drawn by my intelligent and very creative younger daughter.
Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin ABC Center
Draw the faces of each of the characters in the Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin book. Write their names on the bottom. The children put them in ABC order.
Applebee Pumpkin
Sweetheart Pumpkin
Moonlight Pumpkin
Cherry Tart Pumpkin
Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin
ACCENT CUT-OUTS PUMPKINS
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Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin CVC Word Seeds
- CVC Word Pumpkin Seeds
- Use the seeds to form words that correspond with the pictures on the pumpkins
cat, red, zip, pot, tub, bag, ten, pig, mop, rug
Unscramble the Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin Center
Put letters in the pumpkin to spell Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin.
Children unscramble the letters.
Variation:
1. Use just one of the words for younger children.
2. For very young children draw the squares and write the letters in the squares and have the children place the letter tiles on the written squares.
3. For older children have the words inside the pumpkin be mystery words that change daily.
4. Put in whole sentences.
Make an Origami Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin
Origami Pumpkin for Halloween
- Origami Halloween Pumpkin Folding Instructions - How to make a Halloween Pumpkin Origami
- Have a fun Halloween by folding your own Halloween pumpkin origami. Just as fun and no carving necessary! Kids and adults alike will adore this cure Halloween pumpkin origami!
Pumpkin Unit Studies
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- Pumpkin Unit - Mrs. Nelson's Class
- Contains classroom photos, thematic teaching ideas for throughout the year, and resources for teaching reading, writing, and math.
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Pumpkin Lapbooks
Though Lapbooks are designed with the homeschool family in mind, they are easily adapted to classrooms.
- Our Pumpkin Lapbook
- Pictures of our Pumpkin Lapbook along with links to the items we used to create it.
- Pumpkin Lapbook
- Today we finished up our pumpkin lapbooks from our week of fun pumpkin learning!
- Pumpkin Interactive Notebook
- Activities for inclusion in a pumpkin lapbook. Includes a pumpkin spice wheel, a make words activity, and a five little pumpkins mini book.
Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin Related Ideas
Though these activities are designed for teachers most are easily adapted to homeschooling families.
Early Themes: Apples, Pumpkins, and Harvest (Grades K-1)
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Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin
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- The boys carved their pumpkins tonight. This year Conner actually got to help design and carve his. He did a great job! He especially chose a lumpy pumpkin because he loves the book The Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin sooo much!
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What would you do with a Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin?
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- debraanne debraanne Oct 31, 2009 @ 6:55 pm
- So many cute, creative ideas!
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- SpellOutloud SpellOutloud Oct 8, 2009 @ 8:48 pm
- Love how you include so many different activities and links. Great lens!
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- KimGiancaterino KimGiancaterino Sep 28, 2009 @ 4:42 pm
- I visited a nice pumpkin patch over the weekend. It's getting to be that time of year. Blessed and featured on my Squid Angel Diary this week.
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- Treasures-By-Brenda Treasures-By-Brenda Sep 12, 2009 @ 10:14 am
- Nicely done & blessed.
Lensrolled to Eve Bunting's Not Scary Scary Halloween Book Review.
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- JaguarJulie JaguarJulie Aug 25, 2009 @ 2:54 pm
- So, Evelyn, is Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin ready for Halloween this year? It will be here before you know it. How does Lumpy Bumpy feel about pumpkin carving?
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