Halloween Fall Pumpkin Activities Creative Writing and Vocabulary Project

Put your students' love of pumpkins to work for a fall or Halloween writing project. While your students expand their vocabulary and learn new character traits and words to describe characters, they will have a blast developing a pumpkin character and writing creative stories with this PUMPKIN PERSONALITIES writing project!

To deeply understand their chosen personality word, students engage in vocabulary learning through synonym/antonym/Frayer Model and other graphic organizer work. After students study a trait, they write a creative story about their pumpkin who has that trait.

Take this project to the next level by having students decorate a real pumpkin (or cardstock pumpkin, included) to represent their pumpkin character in 3D. I've include suggestions and resources for a culminating writing celebration and follow up center/literacy station activities.

Included in this download:

✔ directions for a possible teaching sequence

✔ sample parent letter (editable version included)

✔ 30 pumpkin traits sorting cards

✔ student word list handout

✔ word exploration graphic organizers (2 versions)

✔ primary grades character brainstorm (great for differentiation!)

✔ upper grades character questionnaire (2 pgs)

✔ story planning template

✔ publishing paper in different formats

✔ "pumpkin praises" sheet (for your writing celebration day!)

✔ word sort extension ideas (2)

✔ synonym/antonym analysis worksheets (go deeper!)

Vocabulary Centers:

✔ 30 definition/vocabulary word match up task cards

✔ Which of these does not belong? 30 Synonym/Antonym task cards for the "pumpkin personalities" traits

Related Resources
⭐ Valentines Day Vocabulary Writing Project
⭐ Snowman Personalities Winter Writing Project

⭐ Holiday Creative Writing BUNDLE
⭐ Character Traits Adjectives definitions and activity packet
⭐ Emoji Theme Character Traits for an Emoji Bulletin Board

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