Bring The Pumpkin Thief to life with this book companion packed with literacy, math, sequencing, crafts, and fall pumpkin activities! Students will love helping Squirrel solve the mystery of his missing pumpkins while practicing reading comprehension, retelling, vocabulary, and important early learning skills.

With 160+ pages of activities, you’ll have everything you need to turn one fall read-aloud into days of learning! Choose from low-prep printables, hands-on centers, a fun craft, a sequencing hat, and more. Perfect for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade!

What’s Included At A Glance:

• Pumpkin Thief Craft: Create a fun Pumpkin Thief character using the shadows of Squirrel’s friends. Add writing for an adorable fall bulletin board!
• Sequencing & Retelling: Retell the story with sequencing cards, a story wheel, and printables.
• Printable Story Hat: Color, cut, and glue the story sequence onto a wearable hat.
• Vocabulary & Story Elements: Build comprehension with vocabulary cards, story response pages, and writing activities.
• Literacy & Math Printables: Practice phonics, counting, addition, and more with easy print-and-go worksheets.
• 4 Learning Centers: Hands-on CVC word and counting activities for extra skill practice.

One read-aloud. Days of activities. Less planning for you!

What’s Covered?

The Pumpkin Thief Crafts & Activities: Extend the story with hands-on activities students will love!

• Pumpkin Thief craft with optional writing pages
• Printable sequencing hat
• Story retelling wheel
• Fall bulletin board display

The Pumpkin Thief Literacy Activities: Use the story to practice reading comprehension, vocabulary, and early literacy skills.

• Vocabulary cards, posters, and word bank activities
• Story sequencing cards in multiple sizes
• Sequencing and retelling printables
• Read and Respond activities for characters, setting, problem, solution, and more
• Writing prompts and graphic organizers
• Alphabet, CVC, digraph, and other phonics printables
• Color-by-code activities

The Pumpkin Thief Math Activities: Bring the pumpkin theme into math time with coordinating worksheets and centers.

• Counting and number recognition
• Addition practice
• Number and counting worksheets
• Color-by-code activities
• Pumpkin-themed math centers

4 Hands-On Literacy & Math Centers: Give students extra practice with activities that work for centers, small groups, or independent learning.

• CVC Pumpkin Clip Cards
• Pumpkin Thief Spin & Cover
• Pumpkin Thief Counting Center
• Pumpkin Counting Center

Perfect for Fall and Pumpkin Learning!

These activities make it easy to extend The Pumpkin Thief read-aloud across your day. Read the story, solve the mystery with Squirrel, practice sequencing and comprehension, work on literacy and math skills, and finish with a fun craft or hat!

These activities are great for:

• The Pumpkin Thief book study
• The Pumpkin Thief read-aloud activities
• Fall and October classroom activities
• Pumpkin-themed literacy and math
• Story sequencing and retelling
• Reading comprehension and story elements
• Fall crafts and bulletin boards
• Literacy and math centers
• Preschool, kindergarten, first grade, and second grade

A Favorite Fall Read-Aloud With Days of Learning!

Students will love following Squirrel’s search for his missing pumpkins while practicing important skills throughout the day. With 160+ pages of printables, centers, crafts, and comprehension activities, you can spend less time planning and more time enjoying the story with your students.

Read, sequence, solve the mystery, and have some pumpkin fun!

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Jennifer Kadar – Simply Kinder – Kindergarten – First Grade – Preschool
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