Pumpkin Shape Memory Game for Toddlers and Preschoolers

Playing together is one of the best ways to connect with your children as well as help them learn. This playful and hands-on learning helps children to grasp ideas, work through concepts and concretes the knowledge as most children are kinesthetic learners – or learn as they do. For this week’s theme of Pumpkins for the Virtual Book Club for Kids we are sharing a traditional game with a pumpkin twist this Pumpkin Shape Memory Game will help your child learn 4 of the basic shapes – circle, square, triangle and oval as well as work on turn taking and help them improve their spatial awareness and memory.

Favourite Pumpkin Book

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Our all-time favourite pumpkin book is Five Little Pumpkins by Dan Yaccarino. This classic rhyme is brought to life through fun colourful drawings and is ideal for sharing.

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Inspired by the book why not create your own flip book version with the kids with our 5 Little Pumpkins DIY Book.

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Materials Needed

Join our Book-Based Activities for Kids Newsletter to download your Pumpkin Memory Shape Cards or purchase a set in our store to download and print.

Cardstock

Printer

Laminator (optional) but will make the cards harder wearing

Preparation

The Pumpkin Shape Memory Game comes with 4 different shapes and 6 copies of each of them. For younger toddlers, I would recommend just using 2 copies so 8 cards in total but as they get older and used to the game increase the number of cards that you add to the game.

Print out the number of cards you wish to use and cut out – laminate if you wish this will make them harder wearing. An alternative and one that we used when the kids were little was to glue them onto an Amazon delivery box and cut them out from there this made the cards hardwearing and easier for little hands to turn over and play with.

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What to play next – Pumpkin Patch Number Game to make and play.

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Playing the Pumpkin Shape Memory Game

Start by showing the different shapes to your child – square, circle, triangle, and oval and getting them to recognise them in pumpkin form.

Once they are familiar set out the game with the number of cards you have chosen with the cards face down.

Now take turns selecting 2 cards to make a pair.

When you have the pair remove the cards.

The winner is the one who has the most cards at the end of the game.

Continue playing together reviewing the shapes as you go along.

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Fine even more ideas for Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers with Pumpkins

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More Pumpkin Themed Activities to Connect and Create with Books

The Virtual Book Club for Kids is a weekly themed series organised by myself here at Rainy Day Mum, Kim from The Educators’ Spin On It and Kristina from Toddler Approved. Each week we coordinate a group of other educators and parents to bring you fun ways to connect and learning with books. Find out more about the series as well as future themes and featured books here.

You can join along with us either by

• Becoming a member of our Weekly Virtual Book Club for Kids Facebook Group where you will find other parents, educators and carers all being inspired to create and connect with books each week.

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• Join our Book Based Activities Newsletter and get your weekly theme straight to your inbox plus access to our free printables like these Pumpkin Shape Memory Cards in your weekly newsletter.

This week’s activities for Pumpkin Week are

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