Spookley The Square Pumpkin Activities

Spookley The Square Pumpkin is an excellent book for a pumpkin or Halloween theme for kids. If you haven’t read Spookley yet, it’s worth visiting the library. I love the message the book presents to kids and parents, and it’s a great way to talk about how our differences make us great. Enjoy these Spookley The Square Pumpkin activities,craft ideas, and STEAM proects!

The Square Pumpkin

Books are a great resource for activities, and not even books are explicitly written with an activity in mind. A book about a square pumpkin is particularly fun to pair with simple STEM activities. Building 3D shapes, going on a nature walk, and more!

Like people, pumpkins come in all different shapes and sizes. These Spookley activities explore pumpkins in different shapes, sizes, and colors. They are a great way to get a little hands-on practice with shapes and have a wonderful literacy component!

💡 Make sure to check out more Pumpkin Books and STEM Activities.

More Spookley The Square Pumpkin Activities

These activities blend literacy with science, technology, engineering, art, and math, making learning engaging and fun for kids.

LEGO Building

Build a LEGO Spookley! Good thing LEGO bricks are square! Challenge your kids to create a Spookley pumpkin out of LEGO bricks. Take a look through our examples.

Shape Sorting and Counting

Materials:

• Various shapes cut from colored paper (including squares, triangles, circles, and rectangles)
• Containers or trays for sorting
• Printable shape sorting mat

Activity: Read Spookley the Square Pumpkin and discuss the different shapes in the story. Have kids sort the shapes into the correct containers and count how many of each shape they have. This activity helps with shape recognition and basic counting skills. Check out more shape activities for kids.

Pumpkin Catapults

Materials:

• Craft sticks
• Rubber bands
• Plastic spoons
• Mini pumpkins or pom-poms

Activity: Build simple catapults [here] using craft sticks, rubber bands, and plastic spoons. Launch mini pumpkins (or pom-poms) and measure the distance they travel. This activity introduces basic principles of physics, such as force and trajectory, while adding a fun, seasonal twist.

Square Pumpkin Art

Materials:

• Square pieces of cardboard or construction paper
• Paint, markers, or crayons
• Glue and googly eyes
• Various craft supplies (e.g., pipe cleaners, buttons, sequins)

Activity: Create your own Spookley the Square Pumpkin! Provide square pieces of cardboard or construction paper and let kids decorate their square pumpkins using paint, markers, or crayons. Add googly eyes, pipe cleaners for vines, and other craft supplies to make each pumpkin unique. This activity encourages creativity and fine motor skills.

Pumpkin Sink or Float Experiment

Materials:

• Small real pumpkins (including a square one if possible)
• Large container filled with water
• Prediction chart

Activity: Conduct a sink or float experiment with small real pumpkins. Before placing the pumpkins in the water, have kids predict whether each pumpkin will sink or float. Record their predictions and observations on a chart. Discuss the results and talk about buoyancy and density.

Pumpkin Tangrams

Materials:

• Printable tangram templates (or tangram puzzle sets)
• Paper or cardstock
• Scissors

Activity: Provide kids with printable tangram templates and have them cut out the shapes. Challenge them to use the tangram pieces to create different pumpkin shapes, including a square pumpkin like Spookley. This activity promotes spatial reasoning and problem-solving skills while tying into the theme of the story.

Pumpkin Math

Use pumpkins for math activities such as counting, measuring, and comparing sizes. You can also introduce basic geometry by exploring shapes. Check out our list of pumpkin math activities.

Printable Shape Activities Pack

Who’s It For?

Perfect for 3-to 6-year-olds in a preschool classroom, learning center, or home. Easy to set up and use with one kiddo or turn into a center for the classroom. This shape activities pack includes a book and supply list to help you easily set up the 14 shapes activities.

What’s Included?

• Dot Shapes
• Building Shapes
• Seek and Find
• Shape Printmaking
• Sensory Sorting
• What Shape is it?
• Mini-Book
• Shapes Crown
• Writing Center
• Tracing Cards
• Board Game
• Matching Game
• Cover Up! Game
• Puzzles
• Book List

There are so many fun ways to explore shapes!