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DIY Jack-O-Lantern Memory

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I had a bunch of pumpkins left over from an activity we did last week, so I wanted to find a way to use some of them with my oldest. She has been having a blast coloring them with markers, but I can only handle so much of that. I decided to create a fun DIY Jack-O-Lantern Memory to get her in the Halloween spirit. Are you looking for more Halloween ideas, activities, and printables to do at home or in the classroom? If so click here.

Pumpkin cut outs with jack-o-lantern faces drawn on them with sharpie

What You Need for DIY Jack-O-Lantern Memory

  • orange construction paper
  • marker

Getting DIY Jack-O-Lantern Memory Ready

First, you will want to make little pumpkins on the orange construction paper. I used die-cuts at my kids’ school. If you have access to a die-cut machine, that would be easiest. If not, click here and look at options of pumpkin templates that you could easily print out and trace onto the orange paper.

DIY Pumpkin Matching Puzzle is a fun, hands-on game for children of all ages. Toddlers and preschool, kindergarten, and first grade students will be having so much fun that they will not even know that they are learning. 

Next you will want to use a marker to create jack-o-lantern faces on each pumpkin. Since students will be playing memory, you will need two of each jack-o-lantern face.

DIY Jack-O-Lantern Memory is a fun learning game that has students practicing letters, numbers, addition or subtraction, and sight words. This hands-on activity is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade and second grade students.

Doing DIY Jack-O-Lantern Memory

Before even starting the game, we talked about the different jack-o-lanterns. We talked about how they were similar and different. We talked about the different shapes she could see too.

DIY Jack-O-Lantern Memory is a fun learning game that has students practicing letters, numbers, addition or subtraction, and sight words. This hands-on activity is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade and second grade students.

I felt that memory might be a difficult concept to grasp and did not want to set Molly up for frustration and possible failure so we started small. When I first introduced the concept of memory to her, we had two pairs of jack-o-lanterns. We talked about how she is looking for the matching pumpkin. We walked through it together the first time and then the second time, she was able to complete it on her own. Once she mastered four jack-o-lanterns, we moved on to six and so on until we had all of the jack-o-lanterns out at once.

DIY Jack-O-Lantern Memory is a fun learning game that has students practicing letters, numbers, addition or subtraction, and sight words. This hands-on activity is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade and second grade students.

As she found the jack-o-lantern matching pairs, she placed them on top of one another and set them aside.

DIY Jack-O-Lantern Memory is a fun learning game that has students practicing letters, numbers, addition or subtraction, and sight words. This hands-on activity is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade and second grade students.

Can you not find a resource that you would LOVE to have for your classroom? Contact me and I would be happy to make it for you.

I hope that you and your students enjoy DIY Jack-O-Lantern Memory activity!

Filed Under: Crafts/Activities, Halloween Tagged With: Holiday, Pre-K, Preschool

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