✦ The Rhyme ✦
Full Text of Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater
Traditional English nursery rhyme. Public domain.
Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater, Had a wife and couldn’t keep her; He put her in a pumpkin shell, And there he kept her very well.
✦ For Teachers, Homeschoolers & Families ✦
Free Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater Activity Pack
Nursery rhyme craft ✦ Sequencing ✦ Rhyming worksheet ✦ Coloring page ✦ Handwriting
A 11-page printable nursery rhyme activity pack for ages 4–8 (pre-K through 2nd grade), in the classroom, homeschool or at the kitchen table. Here’s what’s inside:
- The full rhyme with a listen-along QR code, talk-about-it questions and a play-it-out idea
- A full-page nursery rhyme coloring page
- A cut-and-paste pumpkin house craft, an easy Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater craft for little hands
- Nursery rhyme sequencing: “Put the Rhyme in Order” strips with picture clues
- A rhyming worksheet, a word search and a Trace & Write handwriting page
- Kindergarten readiness: Count the Words (clap and count) and Pencil Warm-Ups (pre-writing strokes)
- Answer key with the kindergarten skills each page practices
Kindergarten skills in this pack
These Mother Goose nursery rhyme worksheets give pre-K and kindergarten children gentle practice with early reading and writing: hearing rhyming words and counting the words in a sentence (phonological awareness), following print from left to right and putting the rhyme’s lines in order (print concepts), pre-writing pencil warm-ups and letter tracing (handwriting), and position words like left, right and under in the cut-and-paste craft.
The activities support kindergarten skills like those practiced in CKLA Kindergarten Skills Unit 1. Storyland Classics is not affiliated with Amplify or the Core Knowledge Foundation.
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