Pumpkin Movement Book & Cards | Gross Motor Brain Break | OT SPED Autism PreK

Get students moving with these Pumpkin Movement Cards and Book! Students skip, march, and hop through the pumpkin patch — building gross motor, motor planning, following directions, and imitation skills while getting their wiggles out. Perfect for circle time, brain breaks, warm-ups, transitions, and small group language activities.

🎃 Excerpt from the Book

"I can skip through the pumpkin patch--
where pumpkins grow so thick.
I can skip through the pumpkin patch.
Which one should I pick?

I can march through the pumpkin patch--
where pumpkins grow so thick.
I can march through the pumpkin patch.
Which one should I pick?

I can hop through the pumpkin patch--
where pumpkins grow so thick.
I can hop through the pumpkin patch.
Which one should I pick?"

👉 The teacher reads and models each movement as students imitate — or students choose a movement card and act it out!

📦 What's Included

• 1 Pumpkin Movement Book with read-and-move text
• A set of Movement Cards to choose and act out each movement

🎯 Skills Targeted

• Gross motor skills
• Motor planning
• Movement imitation
• Following directions
• Listening comprehension
• Receptive language
• Action word / verb vocabulary (skip, march, hop, and more)
• Joint attention and participation
• Self-regulation through movement

📚 How to Use

• Read the book aloud and model each movement as students imitate
• Have students choose a movement card and act out the movement
• Use during circle time, morning meeting, or as a warm-up
• Use as a brain break before or after transitions, or to fill a quick five minutes
• Use in small group as a language + movement activity
• Pull for OT / adaptive PE (gross motor, motor planning) and speech therapy (action words, following directions)

💛 Perfect For

• Occupational therapy and adaptive PE (gross motor / motor planning)
• Speech-language therapy (action words, following directions)
• Special education classrooms (SPED)
• Autism classrooms and ABA programs
• Music and movement / circle time
• Preschool, PreK, and Kindergarten
• Brain breaks and transitions
• Fall and pumpkin units
• Early childhood and ECSE
• Homeschool movement time

🌟 Why Teachers, OTs & SLPs Love This Resource

• A book AND movement cards — two ways to get students moving
• Targets gross motor, motor planning, AND following directions
• Imitation practice built right in
• Gets the wiggles out and boosts engagement and focus
• Works for whole group, small group, and 1:1
• Reusable year after year once laminated

🎁 Want music AND movement? This movement book is also bundled with an adapted song book here: The Pumpkins in the Patch Adapted Song Book (with Music & Movement)

🔗 Love music and movement? See the Adapted Song Books Bundle

🎃 More hands-on pumpkin, fall, and apple favorites:

• Hands-On Pumpkin Activities
• Hands-On Fall Activities
• Apple Themed Activities