Pumpkins-to me no vegetable has more connotations associated with it. Pumpkins remind me of Fall and Halloween and Thanksgiving and pumpkin pie and pumpkin seeds and pumpkin lattes…I could go on and on!

I hope pumpkins have positive connotations for your students as well, which is why I thought that it would be fun to write little pumpkin phrases on little paper pumpkins. I would encourage these phrases to be alliterative, or use a pun, or play with similes-any specific literary technique that you want to hone in your class. As always, these descriptions should include as many vocabulary words as possible-my minimum would be three.

Hopefully your students can enjoy a few minutes of pumpkin/fall/holiday writing. When completed, have your kids hang them up and then share pictures of your pumpkin patches!