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Five Little Pumpkins






 

Five Little Pumpkins

[10 Minutes]

Enjoy this rhyme with your child during pumpkin harvest time. It will help with counting, too. Sharing these rhymes goes a long way toward your child's language development.


What to do:

  1. Recite this rhyme (based on "Five Little Monkeys Sitting on a Bed") with your child, exaggerating each number as you go:
    Five little pumpkins sitting on a shed,
    One rolled off and broke his head.
    "You'll be in a pie," the farmer said.
    Four little pumpkins sitting on a shed.

    Four little pumpkins sitting on a shed,
    One rolled off and broke his head.
    "You'll be in a pie," the farmer said,
    Three little pumpkins sitting on a shed.

    (Complete the remaining verses for numerals 3, 2, and 1 in the same manner.)
  2. Repeat and encourage your child to hold up the appropriate number of fingers.
  3. Ask him to create other motions to accompany the words.
  4. Have a pumpkin pie tasting party or bake one together.

Let's Talk: Ideas to Explore Together.

  • How many pumpkins were in our rhyme? What happened to them?
  • Have you ever tasted pumpkin pie? Did you like it? Shall we make one?

Useful information:

While you are having fun together, this activity helps your child develop small muscle skills, large muscle skills, and language skills.



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