Get kids moving and exploring language in a preschool classroom and at home with action rhymes. These fun chants with a pumpkin theme include simple actions that you can do with your body, a plastic pumpkin, or the printable pumpkin.
Benefits of Action Rhymes
- language skills
- gross motor skills
- phonemic awareness
- new vocabulary
- rhyming words
- other educational concepts
Pumpkin
(tune: If You’re Happy and You Know It)
Put your pumpkin on your head, on your head.
Put your pumpkin on your head, on your head.
Now slowly walk around–
Don’t let it touch the ground.
Put your pumpkin on your head, on your head.
Put your pumpkin on your knee, on your knee.
Put your pumpkin on your knee, on your knee.
Now hold your knee up high–
You can balance if you try.
Put your pumpkin on your knee, on your knee.
Put your pumpkin on the floor, on the floor.
Put your pumpkin on the floor, on the floor.
Now march all around–
your pumpkin on the ground.
Put your pumpkin on the floor, on the floor.
We use a small plastic pumpkin to put on our head, knee, and on the ground during the song. You can also cut out and use the pumpkin in the free printable.
Pumpkin Pumpkin
Pumpkin, pumpkin
Sitting on the wall. (Child sits on the floor.)
Pumpkin, pumpkin
Tip and fall. (Child tips and falls over.)
Pumpkin, pumpkin
Rolling down the street. (Child rolls on the floor.)
Pumpkin, pumpkin
Trick – or – Treat.