October means all things pumpkin spice. And although I have ONE pumpkin spice latte a year, I was surprised at how much my students loved ANYTHING pumpkin-flavored. Are your students the same? So I wanted to make it fun for you this fall and give your students some pumpkin writing prompts that you can use to motivate your kiddos to write!
Pumpkin Writing Activities To Motivate Your Students
Even though it feels like you’ve been in school for 800 weeks so far, it’s only October and your students are still learning the ropes. It’s hard to get into the swing of things, and your students might be a little apprehensive about writing. So let’s make it fun and pumpkin flavored with some pumpkin writing prompts. Besides, don’t you find that your kiddos want to write when they’re excited about the topic?
Here are some great pumpkin writing prompts your students will love this month. Make sure to read all the way to the bottom of this article, I have a free pumpkin resource for you, perfect for your kindergarten or 1st grade writing plans.
What Would A Pumpkin Say If It Could Talk?
Have your students imagine they’re walking through the pumpkin patch, and they see a whole field of pumpkins. What would the pumpkins want to tell them? Would they ask you to pick them? This is a great exercise in imagery for your kiddos as they learn to think of the point of view of a pumpkin.
What If You Lived In A Pumpkin House?
The next pumpkin writing prompt is a fun one. Make sure to give your students a lot of probing questions to help them describe their pumpkin house.
- Who would live there with you?
- Is all of your furniture made of pumpkin?
- What happens when you’re hungry? Do you cook in your pumpkin kitchen or do you just eat the walls?
- Describe what your house smells like
This is a great writing activity when you’re teaching adjectives!
A Day In The Life Of A Pumpkin
Ask your students, “When you go to school, what do you think the pumpkins in the pumpkin patch are doing? Are they having adventures? Are they daydreaming of what Jack-o’-Lantern they might be one day? This pumpkin writing prompt will help your students practice their narrative writing as they write all about a pumpkin’s day.
Who Is A Pumpkin’s BFF?
Since November is coming, it’s a great time to start talking about friendship. So ask your students if they were a pumpkin, who would their BFF be? Maybe the farmer? Or another pumpkin? Or would it be the scarecrow in the field?
This is a pumpkin writing prompt that can also help you brainstorm and categorize a list of pumpkin vocabulary. You could even do an interactive writing assignment where you create the list together, and each student can choose from the list of pumpkin friends to write their piece.
What Costume Would A Pumpkin Choose?
This pumpkin writing prompt is super fun for students because they get to choose a costume for someone else. Or maybe they’d like to be twins and have the pumpkin wear their costume this year!
Save Time While Planning Your Writing Lessons
Teachers have no extra time, there’s never enough minutes in your planning time. I hope that these pumpkin writing activities for 1st grade or kindergarten will easily fit into your writing plans, so you’ll have one less thing to do.
Free Pumpkin Writing Paper
These 5 pumpkin writing prompts are so fun that you can easily use your student’s finished pieces to decorate your hallway bulletin board or send them home so your students can proudly put them on their refrigerator.
Teaching your students to publish their writing is an important step in the writing process. It also teaches your students to take pride in a finished piece of work. So to go along with the pumpkin writing prompts, here is a FREE set of pumpkin writing paper!
What You’ll Get With The Pumpkin Writing Paper
When you download the free pumpkin writing paper you’ll the following:
- TWENTY additional October writing prompts! Your writing plans will be done!
- 36 different pages
- Cute pumpkin images
- Choice of primary or regular lined pages
- Choice of a full page of writing, or half page with room for a picture
- 8 “Notes From Your Teacher” with a cute pumpkin theme
- An easy pumpkin shaped writing craft
- Black and white or color pumpkin lists
Download your free set of pumpkin writing paper today and get started on those fun pumpkin writing prompts for your students. I can’t wait to hear how they turn out!
