Use a fun and easy pumpkin drawing video for kids as a lesson hook for your 1st and 2nd grade science lessons on plants!
Add an Easy Pumpkin Drawing Lesson to First & Second Grade Science Lessons
Exploring the parts of a pumpkin with your 1st or 2nd grade classes? We’ve got the perfect hook to engage students in the science lesson — a fun (and easy!) pumpkin drawing video for kids.
All you’ll need is this 1-minute video and paper and pencils for your students.
Project the pumpkin drawing video on your whiteboard, and hit play. Accompanied by some Halloween-friendly music, the video shows off an easy line-drawing process so your students can follow along as they learn how to draw a jack o’lantern with step-by-step instructions.
You can then challenge your students to label the different parts of their pumpkin, such as the stem, the rib and the shell.
The Perfect Pumpkin Lesson Hook
You could certainly use this fun drawing video for kids to lead your students through a fun fall- or Halloween-friendly art activity as well, but if you’re looking for more ideas to use this video to hook kids on your studies of plants, we’ve got more ideas for you:
- Explore the life cycle of a pumpkin. — Use this fun life cycle activity to introduce your class to the stages of life for everyone’s favorite fall gourd, and lead a brainstorm on the various uses of this fall fruit (e.g., carving for the holiday, decorating the classroom or the house, cooking for Thanksgiving pies and more!).
- Dive into seed dispersal. — Pumpkins are a great plant to use when you’re explaining seed dispersal to your students. After all, each year thousands of Americans cut open their own pumpkins and pull out the seeds as part of their carving tradition. Draw these jack o’lantern-style pumpkins along with the video, and discuss what happens to pumpkin seeds after they’re removed from the shell. Ask students to share some of the animals who they think will eat the seeds and help disperse them in nature to grow brand new pumpkins!
- Observe pumpkins in the classroom. — Are you growing pumpkins in the classroom this year? Provide students with individual pumpkin observation journals, and use this drawing task to lead students through the process of drawing their own cover art! Students can use the journal to record their observations of the pumpkin’s growth over a period of time. They can write descriptions and jot down notes of any changes they observe.
More Pumpkin Science for Your Lesson Plans
If you want to keep the pumpkin fun going in your science classes, try adding these teacher-created resources to your lesson plans:
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