Five Little Pumpkins Puppet Show and FREE printable book

Yesterday, I introduced you to our FREE printable Five Little Pumpkins Package including a FREE printable book, pumpkin counters and poem cards.

Today we are putting on a Five Little Pumpkins Puppet Show! Miss Enigma invited MacGyver, age 9, to join in on the puppet show fun.

Five Little Pumpkins Puppet Show

Following Directions Art Activity

Supplies:

• Five Little Pumpkins FREE printable book
• Five Little Pumpkins FREE printable poem cards
• orange and green paper
• black marker
• scissors
• Popsicle sticks
• glue

Step 1:  Fold Paper and Cut into Fourths

• I modeled for the children how to fold their paper into four equal rectangles.
• When teaching in the classroom, I always taught my students the more equal hamburger fold versus the long skinny hotdog fold.
• The hamburger fold and hotdog fold are easy visuals for children to follow when folding paper for activities.
• “Fold your paper in half like a hamburger bun.”
• “Did you fold your paper like a hamburger or a long skinny hotdog bun?”
• The children unfolded their paper and cut along the lines, giving them four small pieces of paper.

Step 2: Cut Pumpkins

• I modeled for the children how to fold their small paper using the hamburger fold.
• Next, I showed the children how to cut a half circle to create a pumpkin.
• Miss Enigma, “This is how we make hearts!”
• Each of the children cut two pumpkins and they used my pumpkin as the 5th pumpkin.

Step 3: Draw Pumpkin Face

• The children used Sharpie Markers to create no smear pumpkin faces.

Step 4: Cut Pumpkin Vines

• The children used the small green rectangles they cut earlie.
• I modeled for the children how to cut a spiral vine.
• Talk about developing fine motor skills!
• The children glued the vines onto their pumpkins.

Step 5: Glue on Puppet Sticks

• The children used the pumpkin nose as a marker for how high to glue the stick.

Step 6: Glue Poem Words onto Back of Pumpkins

• The children divided up the 5 pumpkin talking verses.
• Five Little Pumpkins FREE printable poem cards

Step 7: Practice, Preform and Celebrate!

• It is wonderful to see two children of very different ages coming together to cooperate, learn and have fun.
• Just the way life should be!

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