Pumpkin Storytime Action Rhyme: A Fall Fingerplay

This is my favorite storytime action rhyme of all time! You can use printed pictures for each item or do the actions. I prefer to do the actions to let the little ones get the wiggles out.

*SLAP YOUR LEGS WHEN YOU SAY PUMPKIN*

Pumpkin Pumpkin Pumpkin BREAD

(hold hands like measuring a loaf of bread)

Pumpkin Pumpkin Pumpkin HEAD

(touch your head)

Pumpkin Pumpkin Pumpkin PIE

(put arms in a circle like encircling a pie)

Pumpkin Pumpkin Pumpkin EYE

(make loose fists over eyes)

Pumpkin Pumpkin Pumpkin CAKE

(hold one palm over the other like measuring a tall cake)

Pumpkin Pumpkin Pumpkin SHAKE

(shake your whole body)

*Now I usually end here, but during the week of Halloween, I add the final line:

Pumpkin Pumpkin Pumpkin STEW

(pretend to stir a big stew)

Pumpkin Pumpkin Pumpkin BOO!

(flick out fingers and yell BOO!!)

I hope you enjoy this fingerplay in the library, at home or in the classroom! 

Happy Rhyming!