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October Preschool Themes

October Preschool Themes to bring a little FALL Fun to your Preschool Homeschool or Classroom Setting. Our Preschool Themes for October always include a ton of ideas using Printables, Worksheets, Activities, and more! These October Preschool Lessons are free and easy to implement into your homeschool or classroom day.

If you’re looking for more options to prepare your child for writing skills, don’t miss out on our October Fine Motor Pack that is specifically designed to strength small muscle movement. Here’s a fun list of fall activities you can begin with your students immediately:

  • Harvest/Pumpkins
  • Halloween
  • Bats & Spiders 
  • Fire Safety

Pumpkins Preschool Printables

Pumpkins preschool printables give your child a ton of fun with shape sheets, game mats, anatomy of a pumpkins, and much more. Dad. You’ll find many tracing worksheets that are great for building preschool math skills..

Halloween Preschool Printables

Halloween presents an awesome opportunity for your students whether they celebrate Halloween or participate in truck or treat. Grab these coloring pages, pumpkin prayer, monster printables, and harvest math worksheets.

Bats Preschool Printables

Looking for some interesting facts about bats? You’ll get some surprising info plus great ideas on best books to read to your preschoolers. We need bats for our planet as they are just as important as bees.

Fire Safety Preschool Printables Coming Soon!

Learning about fire safety is key during the younger years. Finding fun fire worksheets will help your

October Preschool Themes

Here are some more exciting October Preschool Theme ideas you can implement in your homeschool or classroom. Kids love all of these summer themes and will have a ton of fun creating their own little artwork masterpieces and keepsakes.

Pumpkin Shape Tracing

Shape Tracing Worksheets:

With these amazing, cute and educational Pumpkin Tracing Sheets your preschool students will learn how to trace various shapes. Students will learn the names of each shape and how to draw each one of the 10 included shapes. These tracing worksheets are great for building preschool math skills.

Shape Tracing Worksheets:

This collection of free shape tracing worksheets includes 10 popular shapes:

  • Diamond Tracing Worksheet
  • Rectangle Tracing Worksheet
  • Square Tracing Worksheet
  • Circle Tracing Worksheet
  • Star Tracing Worksheet
  • Oval Tracing Worksheet
  • Triangle Tracing Worksheet
  • Heart Tracing Worksheet
  • Hexagon Tracing Worksheet
  • Octagon Tracing Worksheet

With this many different worksheets, you can assemble them together to make a shape tracing booklet for students to take home. We’ve even included a handy cover page below if you want to make take-home booklets for children to practice with! (HINT: Look at the pumpkin leaves, they are the same shape as the pumpkin! How cute is that?) Actually, you could pair this set with our Pumpkin Patch Shape Coloring Worksheet for a great unit!

Dry Erase Game Mat

Students need LOTS of practice tracing! Not only will it build fine motor skills, but it will build the confidence they need to begin handwriting in the coming year. Rather then reprinting the tracing pages over and over, you can save paper by using a dry erase mat or a page protector! That way your preschoolers can use the trace sheets over and over again! For extra practice have students practice writing the shape word as well.

Shape Activities for Preschoolers

If you are looking to add a little hands-on elements to your shapes lessons, try providing students with pipe-cleaners! Show them how to bend them to form the shape to match the shape mat. For younger students you can even make a variety of the shapes ahead of time and have them match the correct shape or sizes.

Hands-On Shape Activities:

If you don’t have pipe-cleaners on hand, you could even use a bit of string. Just pre-cut the yarn to fit around the shape mats. Students will use their small motor muscles to wrap the string into the correct shape. This is a great way to build multiple skills with the same worksheet.

Pumpkin Tracing Worksheets:

There are many different ways to use the Pumpkin Trace Sheets. You can trace the shapes with a marker, yarn, pipe cleaners, or just your finger. No assembly is needed just print and go!

Tracing Pumpkin Shapes Booklet Cover

Create a take home tracing book for your students with this printable booklet cover page.

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Diamond Tracing Worksheet

This free shape worksheet helps students learn to trace and draw a diamond. Students can also practice writing the word below.

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Rectangle Tracing Worksheet

This free shape worksheet helps students learn to trace and draw a rectangle. Students can also practice writing the word below.

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Square Tracing Worksheet

This free shape worksheet helps students learn to trace and draw a square. Students can also practice writing the word below.

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Circle Tracing Worksheet

This free shape worksheet helps students learn to trace and draw a circle. Students can also practice writing the word below.

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Star Tracing Worksheet

This free shape worksheet helps students learn to trace and draw a star. Students can also practice writing the word below.

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Oval Tracing Worksheet

This free shape worksheet helps students learn to trace and draw a oval. Students can also practice writing the word below.

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Triangle Tracing Worksheet

This free shape worksheet helps students learn to trace and draw a triangle. Students can also practice writing the word below.

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Heart Tracing Worksheet

This free shape worksheet helps students learn to trace and draw a heart. Students can also practice writing the word below.

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Hexagon Tracing Worksheet

This free shape worksheet helps students learn to trace and draw a hexagon. Students can also practice writing the word below.

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Octagon Tracing Worksheet

This free shape worksheet helps students learn to trace and draw a octagon. Students can also practice writing the word below.

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Pumpkin Preschool Printables

Our free preschool pumpkin printables help you plan out your Fall learning centers and classroom activities. Use our science sampler and moldy pumpkin experiment worksheet to add some hands on fun in your classroom.  Take a trip to the pumpkin patch and bring back some amazing teaching tools you can use throughout your Autumn thematic unit. Extend this unit with our free Fall Leaf preschool printables.

Pumpkin Patch Shapes

These pumpkins are a bit misshapen, each one represents a unique shape. Children color each pumpkin in the pumpkin patchusing the shape color guide.

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Life Cycle of a Pumpkin Chart

This is a real photo set of the life cycle of a pumpkin. This includes a full color classroom chart or notebooking page as well as a set of sequencing cards for children to place into the correct order.

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Pumpkin Tracing Worksheets

This is a free set of pumpkin shape tracing worksheets! Covers 10 different shapes with ideas for fine motor expansion.

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Pumpkins & Gourds Matching

This full color photo matching game is great for young children! Featuring 24 different and colorful varieties, this game is sure to be a hit during your Fall unit.

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Life Cycle of a Pumpkin Book

This is a printable book in the shape of a pumpkin. Children color and trace the words through out the minibook, finishing with their own pumpkin design. These work great printed on light orange paper as well.

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Pumpkin Science Sampler

After choosing a pumpkin, guide children throgh these three pages of introspection. Children draw their pumpkin (or glue pumpkin seeds), discover colors in their pumpkin, describe it by size, texture, weight and more.

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Parts of a Pumpkin Worksheet

This is a simplified cut and paste activity worksheet for students to label the parts of a pumpkin.

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Parts of a Pumpkin Montessori Cards

Free printable set of parts of a pumpkin cards, worksheets, coloring pages and more.

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Candy Pumpkin 10 Frame Board

This is a colorful activity mat for use with candy pumpkins. Children place pumpkins on the board to create addition equations, then move all pumpkins to the board to frame them.

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P is for Pumpkin Handwriting Worksheet

A simple worksheet for children ready to begin handwriting. Four days of tracing and one day of trying the letter on their own. Includes a small picture to color, an easy read sentence and a sticker box.

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Pumpkin Bump Game

This is a fun four in a row addition game. The first player rolls two dice and places a marker on the correct sum. The next player does the same...bumping another player off if there is already someone on that number. The first one to four in a row wins.

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Pumpkins, Gourds & Squash Chart

A full color photo chart featuring different pumpkins, gourds and squash. This would be excellent to print alongside all the different pumpkins children come back to match up.

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Moldy Pumpkin Experiment Worksheet

This is a simple worksheet for children to keep track of their scientific data during a moldy pumpkin experiment. Place a small slice of pumpkin in a dish then keep track of what grows. Each day children draw what they see in the petri dish.

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Pumpkin Art Template

This thick black line template would be perfect to use as an art project with your little ones. Consider using oil pastels for vibrant Fall colors

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P is for Pumpkin Worksheet

P is for Pumpkin with this simple handwriting and coloring excercise. Children can draw in faces for each of the three pumpkins.

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Picking Pumpkins File Folder Game

This is counting game. Children use coins or pumpkin seeds to count the correct amount and pay for the pumpkin's they've "picked."

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Pumpkin Patch Math Game

This is a simple file folder game for children working on visual discrimination. Each pumpkin features two different colors for children to match, making it slightly more difficult than a single color matching game

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P is for Pumpkin Quilt Square

A handwriting, coloring and cutting exercise for young children. Each child designs their own pumpkin then cuts them out. Teacher can arrange all the children's pumpkins into a classroom wall quilt for a fun display.

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Pumpkin Cut & Paste Activity

This is a simple cut and paste activity. Children cut out the three shapes and glue them onto their pumpkin. Then draw in their own pumpkin grin.

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Pumpkin Art Template

This is a large pumpkin template for you to use with your art class. Marble painting, sponge painting, texture rubbing, finger painting would all be great for a beautiful fall pumpkin!.

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Fall Welcome Sign Coloring Page

A colorful welcome sign you can print and hang up in your classroom. Also a coloring page for children to decorate one for their own home. You could even show them the color version for ideas on how to color it.

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Pumpkin Sequencing Game

Print these pumpkins onto cardstock and lamniate for durability. Children order them by size, smallest to largest then largest to smallest.

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Pumpkins & Gourds Matching

A simple photo matching game featuring a variety of different colorful pumpkins and gourds.

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Pumpkin Seedling Seed Growth

These plant life cycle cards show progression from seed to seedling. Children order the different stages of the seed as roots form and the seedling emerges.

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Pumpkin Life Cycle Printables

These pumpkin life cycle cards are perfect for children who are learning about plants and food. Children arrange the six photo cards in the proper order from seed to fruit to show the stages of a pumpkin.

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