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:
- 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.)
- Repeat and encourage your child to hold up the appropriate number of fingers.
- Ask him to create other motions to accompany the words.
- 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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