Pumpkin Songs

The Library Lady sings The Pumpkin Song, a sweet, simple song used with success for library storytimes. She also posted pumpkin photos, including some shots of her fabulous display board. Thank you, Library Lady!

As a memory jog, Lucia sang a Jack-o-Lantern song for this blog last year. I've linked that as well.

Poetry Friday: Jack-'o-lantern

Many thanks to Sam Riddleburger and Cece Bell for their pumpkin carving tutorial. Bede used a dry-wall saw to carve this jack-'o-lantern, whom he has named "Isabelle":



Last year, my daughter learned this song at her school, which she sang after we lit the jack-o'-lantern and turned out all the lights:

Jack-'o-lantern, Jack-'o-lantern
You are such a pretty sight
As you sit there in the window
Looking out at the night.
You were once a yellow pumpkin
Growing on a sturdy vine
Now you are my Jack-'o-lantern
Let your candle light shine.

(Author unknown)


Here is the tune:


The Poetry Friday Roundup is at Poetry for Children.

Riddleburger's Pumpkin Tutorial

Sam Riddleburger and Cece Bell have the definitive tutorial on how to carve pumpkins. Sam says, "People keep bumping into my site looking for templates. People, templates stink. Templates are only for people who lack confidence in their own creativity. This lesson will empower you to make your OWN pumpkin."

I for one lack confidence in my own creativity when it comes to pumpkin-carving. Then again, the closest I've come to carving a pumpkin has been this. I'm a paper-person. As Carl Sandburg says, "Paper people like to meet other paper people."


Will we? Won't we?