Pumpkin Songs to Sing with Kids

Sing these pumpkin songs with your students or children throughout the fall season, on the way to the pumpkin patch, during a unit on pumpkins, while carving Jack-o-Lanterns, and to pass the time in the car.

Have You Ever Seen a Pumpkin?

"Have You Ever Seen a Pumpkin?" is sung to the tune of "Have You Ever Seen a Lassie?" and teaches vocabulary to describe the different sizes and shapes of pumpkins. Substitute your own adjectives to describe the pumpkins in you classroom or home.

Have you ever seen a pumpkin, a pumpkin, a pumpkin,
Have you ever seen a pumpkin, that grows on a vine?
A round one, a tall one, a bumpy one, a squashed one.
Have you ever seen a pumpkin, that grows on a vine?

Pumpkins Growing

Sung to the tune of "Are You Sleeping?," the song "Pumpkins Growing" is a sweet song to teach the young children.

Pumpkins growing
Pumpkins growing
In the patch
In the patch
Look at all the pumpkins
Look at all the pumpkins
Orange and Round
Orange and Round

Five Little Pumpkins

"Five Little Pumpkins" is not sung to any tune, but it is a great poem to be chanted and acted out...which all kids love.

Five little pumpkins sitting on a gate (five fingers up)
The first one said "Oh my it's getting Late" (Hands on Cheeks)
The second one said "There's a chill in the air" (arms around self)
The third one said "But we don't care" (swing pointer finger)
The fourth one said "We're ready for some fun!" (hand in air)
The fifth one said "Let's run, run, run!" (running motion)
So woooo went the wind, and out went the lights,
And the five little pumpkins rolled out of sight!

Halloween Surprise

"Halloween Surprise" describes the process of transforming a pumpkin into a Jack-o-Lantern and is sung to the tune of "Sing a Song of Sixpence."

First you take a pumpkin
Big and fat and round
Then you cut the top off
That will make a hat
Then you hollow out the
Nose and mouth and eyes
Now you have a Jack-O-Lantern
Halloween Surprise!

The Pumpkin Song

"The Pumpkin Song" is sung to the tune of "The Farmer in the Dell." Children especially enjoy acting out this song with pumpkin "puppets" they make out of construction paper pumpkins glued to popsicle sticks.

The pumpkins are here, the pumpkins are there. The pumpkins, the pumpkins are everywhere.

The pumpkins are up; the pumpkins are down. The pumpkins, the pumpkins are all around.

The pumpkins are in; the pumpkins are out. The pumpkins, the pumpkins are all about.

The pumpkins are low; the pumpkins are high. The pumpkins, the pumpkins all say, "Good-bye".