Frolic into Fall with Pumpkin Songs
Autumn is the time to learn more about pumpkins and sing about pumpkins while you‟re learning. Here are some fun songs to sing about pumpkins. Pumpkins are a fun part of autumn and Halloween and Thanksgiving.
Here are some songs to sing about pumpkins while you learn more about them.
Pumpkins Have Different Names Just Like People
The Greeks called large melons pepons. French people changed pepons into pompons. English people changed pompon to pumpion. American colonists changed pumpion into pumpkin.
Pump, Pump, Pump, They're Pumpkins!
(To the Tune of Dem Dry Bones) The children can be divided into groups of pepons, pompons, pumpions, and pumpkins
and dance when it is their turn. holding pumpkins)
Pump, pump, pump, they're Pumpkins!
Pump, pump, pump, they're Pumpkins!
Pump, pump, pump, they're Pumpkins!
Here's how they got their name!
The Greeks called the pumpkins pepons,
The French called the pumpkins pompons,
The English called the pumpkins pumpion
Since they were the new country bumpkins!
The Americans called them pumpkins!
Pump, pump, pump, they're Pumpkins!
Pump, pump, pump, they're Pumpkins!
Pump, pump, pump, they're Pumpkins!
That's how they got their name.
Every Pumpkin Has Great Pumpkin Possibilities
Every Halloween night Linus van Pelt sits in the pumpkin patch waiting for the Great Pumpkin. Linus believes that the Great Pumpkin visits the most sincere pumpkin patch and leaves presents that he chooses. Linus says that the Great Pumpkin is different from Santa Claus because he brings gifts that he chooses and not gifts that children ask him to bring.
Harry Potter and his friends at Hog Warts love pumpkin juice and drink gallons of it. Both Native Americans and Pilgrims grew great pumpkins in their pumpkin patches and ate pumpkins, including their juice.
Pumpkin Juice
(To the Tune of Jingle Bells)
Pumpkin juice,
Pumpkin juice,
It feels good in my tum,
Linus drinks it in the pumpkin patch,
Waiting for the Great Pumpkin to come,
Pumpkin juice, pumpkin juice,
Pumpkin juice without an end,
But the best thing about pumpkin juice
Is sharing it with a friend!
Pumpkin juice,
Pumpkin juice,
It feels good in my tum
Harry Potter drinks a hearty batch,
Before every Quidditch match,
Pumpkin juice,pumpkin juice,
Pumpkin juice without an end,
But the best thing about pumpkin juice,
Is sharing it with a friend!
Native Americans and Pilgrims Grew And Ate Pumpkins
Native Americans cut pumpkins into strips and dried them in the sunshine. They wove some of the pumpkin strips into mats and they roasted others over open fires and ate them. In the spring of 1621, Native Americans Samoset and Squanto taught the Pilgrims how to plant pumpkin seeds, and grow and harvest them. The colonists and the Native Americans enjoyed boiled pumpkin at the first Thanksgiving celebration in the autumn of 1621. Colonists invented a primitive kind of pumpkin pie by slicing off the pumpkin top, removing the seeds and filling the insides with milk, spices, and honey. Then they baked it in hot ashes.
Jack-o-lanterns Alias Pumpkins
For hundreds of years people have been making jack-o-lanterns for Halloween because of an Irish myth about a man called 'Stingy Jack."Jack was so stingy he tricked the Devil and to get even, the Devil sent Jack off into the dark night with only a burning coal to light his way. Jack put his coal into a carved out turnip and he has been traveling the earth with it ever since. The Irish began to call Jack and his turnip "Jack of the Lantern," and then they shortened it to "Jack O' Lantern."
Pumpkins Orange
(Sing to the tune of “Where is Thumbkin?”)
(The children can draw on paper or on their jack-o-lanters while they are singing or before they start drawing)
Pumpkins orange, pumpkins orange,
Draw a nose,
Draw a nose,
Halloween is coming, Halloween is coming,
Draw a nose like a rose, a nose like a rose.
Pumpkins orange, pumpkins orange,
Draw two eyes, draw two eyes,
Halloween is coming, Halloween is coming,
Draw eyes round with surprise, round with surprise.
Pumpkins orange, pumpkins orange,
Draw two ears, draw two ears,
Halloween is coming, Halloween is coming,
Make them grow out to here, grow out to here!
Pumpkins orange, pumpkins orange,
Make one mouth too, make one mouth too,
Halloween is coming, Halloween is coming,
Holler BOO! Holler BOO!
Pumpkins orange, pumpkins orange,
You can see, You can see,
Triangle eyes and piano key mouth,
You live on my porch or beside my house
And you grin at me, grin at me,
Pumpkins orange, pumpkins orange,
Scary too, scary too,
You creep along on pumpkin feet,
While I am going trick or treat,
Holler BOO! Holler BOO!
Jack-o-Lanterns Come to America
Even if Stingy Jack is just a story, people all over the world began carving their own versions of Jack's lanterns using turnips or potatoes .The British people used large beets for their jack-o-lanterns. They put their carved vegetables into their windows or doors or on front steps to scare away Stingy Jack himself or other people or animals they didn't want around.
When people came from Europe to live in American, they brought their jack-o-lantern custom with them and they soon discovered that pumpkins made perfect jack-o-lanterns. So you see, pumpkins have a history just like people do. Sing about their history while you are carving them and after you eat a piece of pumpkin pie!
Scary Songs for Halloween
Wendy Witch
(To the Tune of Row, Row, Row, Your Boat)
Wendy Witch rides across the sky,
The wind blows her all around,
Owee, Owee, Owee, Owee,
She crashes to the ground.
Wendy Witch somersaults in the sky,
Soars across the moon,Hee,
Hee, Hee, Hee, Hee, Hee, Hee, Hee,
This time she takes her broom!
Scratchy Scarecrow
(To the tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star)
Scratchy scarecrow flaps his arms,
In the field on Mr. Mann‟s farm,
He works hard each and every day,
To scare the corn eating crows away!
Then one frosty autumn morn,
The scarecrow took his eyes off the corn,
The crows hurried eating up and down the rows
While the scarecrow scratched the itch at the end of his toes.
References
Ames, Lee J. and Burns Ray, Draw 50 Holiday Decorations: The Step by Step Way to Draw Bunnies, Valentines, Jack-o-Lanterns, Elves and many More, Broadway, 1990
Gibbons, Gail, The Season of Arnold's Apple Tree, Sandpiper, 1988
Glaser, Linda, It's Fall, Millbrook Press, 2001
Maestro, Betsy, Why Do Leaves Change color?, Collins, 1999
Here are some songs to sing about pumpkins while you learn more about them.
Pumpkins Have Different Names Just Like People
The Greeks called large melons pepons. French people changed pepons into pompons. English people changed pompon to pumpion. American colonists changed pumpion into pumpkin.
Pump, Pump, Pump, They're Pumpkins!
(To the Tune of Dem Dry Bones) The children can be divided into groups of pepons, pompons, pumpions, and pumpkins
and dance when it is their turn. holding pumpkins)
Pump, pump, pump, they're Pumpkins!
Pump, pump, pump, they're Pumpkins!
Pump, pump, pump, they're Pumpkins!
Here's how they got their name!
The Greeks called the pumpkins pepons,
The French called the pumpkins pompons,
The English called the pumpkins pumpion
Since they were the new country bumpkins!
The Americans called them pumpkins!
Pump, pump, pump, they're Pumpkins!
Pump, pump, pump, they're Pumpkins!
Pump, pump, pump, they're Pumpkins!
That's how they got their name.
Every Pumpkin Has Great Pumpkin Possibilities
Every Halloween night Linus van Pelt sits in the pumpkin patch waiting for the Great Pumpkin. Linus believes that the Great Pumpkin visits the most sincere pumpkin patch and leaves presents that he chooses. Linus says that the Great Pumpkin is different from Santa Claus because he brings gifts that he chooses and not gifts that children ask him to bring.
Harry Potter and his friends at Hog Warts love pumpkin juice and drink gallons of it. Both Native Americans and Pilgrims grew great pumpkins in their pumpkin patches and ate pumpkins, including their juice.
Pumpkin Juice
(To the Tune of Jingle Bells)
Pumpkin juice,
Pumpkin juice,
It feels good in my tum,
Linus drinks it in the pumpkin patch,
Waiting for the Great Pumpkin to come,
Pumpkin juice, pumpkin juice,
Pumpkin juice without an end,
But the best thing about pumpkin juice
Is sharing it with a friend!
Pumpkin juice,
Pumpkin juice,
It feels good in my tum
Harry Potter drinks a hearty batch,
Before every Quidditch match,
Pumpkin juice,pumpkin juice,
Pumpkin juice without an end,
But the best thing about pumpkin juice,
Is sharing it with a friend!
Native Americans and Pilgrims Grew And Ate Pumpkins
Native Americans cut pumpkins into strips and dried them in the sunshine. They wove some of the pumpkin strips into mats and they roasted others over open fires and ate them. In the spring of 1621, Native Americans Samoset and Squanto taught the Pilgrims how to plant pumpkin seeds, and grow and harvest them. The colonists and the Native Americans enjoyed boiled pumpkin at the first Thanksgiving celebration in the autumn of 1621. Colonists invented a primitive kind of pumpkin pie by slicing off the pumpkin top, removing the seeds and filling the insides with milk, spices, and honey. Then they baked it in hot ashes.
Jack-o-lanterns Alias Pumpkins
For hundreds of years people have been making jack-o-lanterns for Halloween because of an Irish myth about a man called 'Stingy Jack."Jack was so stingy he tricked the Devil and to get even, the Devil sent Jack off into the dark night with only a burning coal to light his way. Jack put his coal into a carved out turnip and he has been traveling the earth with it ever since. The Irish began to call Jack and his turnip "Jack of the Lantern," and then they shortened it to "Jack O' Lantern."
Pumpkins Orange
(Sing to the tune of “Where is Thumbkin?”)
(The children can draw on paper or on their jack-o-lanters while they are singing or before they start drawing)
Pumpkins orange, pumpkins orange,
Draw a nose,
Draw a nose,
Halloween is coming, Halloween is coming,
Draw a nose like a rose, a nose like a rose.
Pumpkins orange, pumpkins orange,
Draw two eyes, draw two eyes,
Halloween is coming, Halloween is coming,
Draw eyes round with surprise, round with surprise.
Pumpkins orange, pumpkins orange,
Draw two ears, draw two ears,
Halloween is coming, Halloween is coming,
Make them grow out to here, grow out to here!
Pumpkins orange, pumpkins orange,
Make one mouth too, make one mouth too,
Halloween is coming, Halloween is coming,
Holler BOO! Holler BOO!
Pumpkins orange, pumpkins orange,
You can see, You can see,
Triangle eyes and piano key mouth,
You live on my porch or beside my house
And you grin at me, grin at me,
Pumpkins orange, pumpkins orange,
Scary too, scary too,
You creep along on pumpkin feet,
While I am going trick or treat,
Holler BOO! Holler BOO!
Jack-o-Lanterns Come to America
Even if Stingy Jack is just a story, people all over the world began carving their own versions of Jack's lanterns using turnips or potatoes .The British people used large beets for their jack-o-lanterns. They put their carved vegetables into their windows or doors or on front steps to scare away Stingy Jack himself or other people or animals they didn't want around.
When people came from Europe to live in American, they brought their jack-o-lantern custom with them and they soon discovered that pumpkins made perfect jack-o-lanterns. So you see, pumpkins have a history just like people do. Sing about their history while you are carving them and after you eat a piece of pumpkin pie!
Scary Songs for Halloween
Wendy Witch
(To the Tune of Row, Row, Row, Your Boat)
Wendy Witch rides across the sky,
The wind blows her all around,
Owee, Owee, Owee, Owee,
She crashes to the ground.
Wendy Witch somersaults in the sky,
Soars across the moon,Hee,
Hee, Hee, Hee, Hee, Hee, Hee, Hee,
This time she takes her broom!
Scratchy Scarecrow
(To the tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star)
Scratchy scarecrow flaps his arms,
In the field on Mr. Mann‟s farm,
He works hard each and every day,
To scare the corn eating crows away!
Then one frosty autumn morn,
The scarecrow took his eyes off the corn,
The crows hurried eating up and down the rows
While the scarecrow scratched the itch at the end of his toes.
References
Ames, Lee J. and Burns Ray, Draw 50 Holiday Decorations: The Step by Step Way to Draw Bunnies, Valentines, Jack-o-Lanterns, Elves and many More, Broadway, 1990
Gibbons, Gail, The Season of Arnold's Apple Tree, Sandpiper, 1988
Glaser, Linda, It's Fall, Millbrook Press, 2001
Maestro, Betsy, Why Do Leaves Change color?, Collins, 1999