Looking for something a bit different from all the pumpkin activities of October? Gourds can put a unique twist on fall harvest activities for kids. Gourds can be used for Montessori-inspired explorations or a variety of arts and crafts.
Check out all these fun and educational fall gourd activities!
Montessori-Inspired Learning Activities with Gourds
Healthy Beginnings Montessori shares a fall sensorial basket with gourds in their toddler community.
Carrots Are Orange also shares an infant and toddler sensory experience with gourds.
Grading Gourds from Smallest to Largest (Photo from Love Play Learn)
Love Play Learn focused on size and texture concepts with gourds. (The blog post is no longer available.)
Gourd and Pumpkin Washing (Photo from Trillium Montessori)
Along with their pumpkin activities, Trillium Montessori had gourd washing.
Vanessa of Mama’s Happy Hive has gourd matching and transfer work at Christian Montessori Network.
Sorting, Classifying, and Labeling Gourds (Photo from Still Playing School)
Still Playing School did comparing, sorting, and labeling activities with gourds.
Geoboard Gourd (Photo from Parenting Chaos)
Parenting Chaos created a geoboard gourd. (This is similar to some of the 20+ pumpkin hammering activities I shared last week, many of which still work well after Halloween.)
Exploring Fall Colors with Gourds (Photo from Little Bins for Little Hands)
Little Bins for Little Hands has a creative fall color exploration activity with paint chip cards and gourds.
Gourds Science Center (Photo from PreKinders)
PreKinders has a gourd science center as well as a gourd painting extension activity.
Arts and Crafts with Gourds
Creative Connections for Kids added googly eyes to their gourd sorting activities.
Kid’s Creative Chaos painted with gourds.
Montessori Mama has some adorable gourd friends made with gourds and natural trimmings.
Discovering the World through My Son’s Eyes made a Peruvian bird gourd craft.
Gourd Bird Feeder (Photo from Kitchen Counter Chronicles)
Kitchen Counter Chronicles has simple gourd stamping and a silly googly eye gourd craft as well as a tutorial on how to make a gourd bird feeder.
Musical Instrument (Guiro) Made from a Gourd (Photo by Daria at The Educators’ Spin On It)
Daria of Daria World Music Website has guest post at The Educators’ Spin on It with musical instruments made from gourds.
Kitchen Floor Crafts has gourd pirates and gourd bowling.
Students from the Montessori School of the Finger Lakes made gourd birdhouses.
Gourd Birdhouse (Photo from Happiness is Homemade)
Happiness is Homemade made another version of gourd birdhouses.
You’ll find many more ideas for Montessori-inspired fall activities here.
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What a wonderful bunch of fall activities with these gourds, great ideas! 🙂
This is a great list! Thank you for including my site! I will be using these great ideas in my classroom as well.