The Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin
There are five little pumpkins in Farmer Joe's Pumpkin Patch. Four of them are round and shiny and look like the perfect pumpkins but the fifth little pumpkin is lumpy and bumpy.
Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin is on stage in NYC around 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 download the story from MobiStories and plant the seeds of learning.
Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin is on stage in NYC around 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 download the story from MobiStories and plant the seeds of learning.
Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin Table of Contents
Photo Credit:Pumpkins
Pedersen, Diane
Available on AllPosters
Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin
A Halloween Tale
Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin is an original tale by Sandra Robbins of a pumpkin that worries about being different but in the end finds acceptance.
Lumpy Bumpy was the funniest-looking pumpkin in Farmer Joe's pumpkin patch.
Lumpy Bumpy was the funniest-looking pumpkin in Farmer Joe's pumpkin patch.
Photo Credit: Rolling a Pumpkin on WPClipart
Large Tours Pumpkin Available at Allposters
- MobiStories: online digital books for children
- Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin and more online books for kids.
Five Little Pumpkins
Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin was the Fifth Little Pumpkin
Photo Credit: Five Pumpkins
on Zazzle
There were five little pumpkins in Farmer Joe's pumpkin patch." Four were beautifully round and perfect. The fifth was awkwardly lumpy and bumpy.
Photo Credit: Perfect Pumpkins on WPClipart
Large Tours Pumpkin Available at Allposters
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.
Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin Playdough
Pumpkin Playdough
Photo Credit: Pumpkin Play Dough
on Flickr, Creative Commons
Make homemade play dough following this recipe. The Cream of Tartar will keep the play dough from separating.
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 Play dough:
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
Proud Farmer Standing in Field of Pumpkins
Available on Allposters
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.
Greeting Lumpy Bumpy Pumkin
Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin and Morning Meeting
The Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin
thought that all he would be good for would be pumpkin pie!
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 each other feel accepted.
What kind of greeting could you use that would help the Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin feel welcome in your classroom, group or family?
thought that all he would be good for would be pumpkin pie!Photo Credit: Scary Pumpkins Available on Zazzle
Sad Pumpkin From Mandy Gregory, Used for Educational Purposes
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 each other feel accepted.
What kind of greeting could you use that would help the Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin feel welcome in your classroom, group or family?
Caroline Crow's Pumpkin Pie
Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin is worried about being turned into a Pumpkin Pie.
There are many things that you can do with a pumpkin from estimating it's weight, to measuring it's circumference to Counting it's Seeds but when your are done the best thing to do is make 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
Photo Credit:A Young Woman Trims the Excess Pastry from a Pie Available at Allposters
Photo Credit: Making Pumpkin Pie on Flickr, Creative Commons
Photo Credit: Children Bringing Pie Available on Allposters
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
Photo Credit: Children Watching the Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin at Shaddowbox Theatre Used by Permission
Photo Credit: Children Watching the Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin from MobiStories Used by Permission
Photo Credit: Children Watching the Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin at Shaddowbox Theatre Used by Permission
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 The 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.
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
Use the theme of the Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin to increase your children's vocabulary and word attack skills. Learn pumpkin related verbs and adjectives. Place the pumpkin words you are learning on the wall and arrange them so that your children will be able to find them easily.
Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin Word Wheel
Photo Credit: The drawing of the Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin Word Wheel was drawn by my daughter.
Used by Permission
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
Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin Character Cards
Photo Credit: The Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin (book and CD)
Available on Amazon
1. Draw the faces of each of the characters in the Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin book.
2. laminate
3. Write the names of the characters in the Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin book on the bottom of each card.
4. The children put the Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin Character Cards in ABC order.
Applebee Pumpkin
Sweetheart Pumpkin
Moonlight Pumpkin
Cherry Tart Pumpkin
Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin
Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin CVC Word Seeds
- CVC Word Pumpkin Seeds
- Write words that your children are learning to spell or read on pumpkin accents.
Children glue pumpkin seeds onto the letters of to form the words they are learning.
cat, red, zip, pot, tub, bag, ten, pig, mop, rug
Once the glue has dried, the children can close their eyes, and feel the shape of the letters to read the words.
This is a wonderful way to help visual and tactile learners remember their spelling or vocabulary words.
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!
- Origami Pumpkin
- Here are step by step instructions on how to make an origami pumpkin.
Pumpkin Unit Studies
- Pumpkin Theme
- Lesson Plans, Themes, Tips, Printables, and more
- Pumpkin Patch
- Little Giraffes Teaching Ideas
- Pumpkin Unit - Mrs. Nelson's Class
- Contains classroom photos, thematic teaching ideas for throughout the year, and resources for teaching reading, writing, and math.
- Pumpkins Aplenty at The Virtual Vine
- Pumpkins Aplenty, Pumpkins Galore
Pumpkin Lapbooks
Photo Credit: Pumpkin Lapbook by jallion
Used under creative commons
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
Photo Credit: The Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin (book and CD)
Available on Amazon
Though these activities are designed for teachers most are easily adapted to homeschooling families.
Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin
Now Showing at the Shadow Box Theater
Photo Credit: Pumpkin Cake
on Flickr, Creative Commons
STORYBOOK THEATRE Stories that sing!
Children laugh, sing and clap along with our storyteller and musician in these
interactive mini-musicals with puppets, designed for fun and learning in pre-K to 2nd grade.
Weekday Mornings, Tickets: $6.50 (October 16-31)
- Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin
- A comic and compassionate tale that brings Farmer Joe's pumpkin patch to life, as Lumpy Bumpy learns that everyone has a special talent - you just have to find it!
Look Who's Blogging about the Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin
- Echoes of Love: Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin
- We read Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin this week and the kids really enjoyed this book. Just because something or someone may seem perfect on the outside doesn't mean that they are.
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- Mobistories is a new way for kids of all ages to read.
We all know as parents the importance of reading and starting a young age.
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- Buddy picked out two books, Ella the Elephant and Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin. They were both darling books and they were easy to download and view.
Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin is an original tale of a pumpkin that worries about being different but in the end finds acceptance.
Mom Select and MobiStories want to offer all of you $10.00 worth of free downloads! - The Con Man's Moments: Pumpkin Time!
- 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!
Look Who's Twittering about Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin
and other MobiStories
Photo Credit: Pumpkins
on WPClipart
Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin looks for more MobiStories
Online Unit Studies
Photo Credit: The Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin (book and CD)
Available on Amazon
There is an ever increasing number of MobiStories that have unit studies written to accompany them. Each of these unit studies will have fun, creative, hands-on activities and games to help your child learn to read, write, do math, create science experiments, understand history, and much much more.
What would you do with a Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin?
Photo Credit: Pumpkin Patch by graphxpro
Available on Zazzle
Download Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin.
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debraanne
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- 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
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- Nicely done & blessed.
Lensrolled to Eve Bunting's Not Scary Scary Halloween Book Review.
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JaguarJulie
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- 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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- Lots of great ways to make learning fun. Great Lens. 5* Thank you for joining my group, Homemade Halloween
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