Halloween/ Thanksgiving ideas

I am so happy with the series of activities that I did with my PS,PK and K students. Here is a sequence of activities:
I bought small gourds at Walmart and I took pictures of each one. I printed the pictures and laminated them. The following day I put them in the center of my classroom.

When the students came in I asked them to sit in a circle and choose a gourd as I called their names (or the color of the dot on the carpet). Next, we talked about color, smoothness of the gourd and we lined them up according to size. Finally, I showed them the pictures and had them identify the same picture as the gourd they were holding. As we did, I described the attributes of the gourds.
The following class, I gave them a picture of a gourd and a bag of Cuisenaire rods. I asked them to measure the length or width of their gourd. With PK, I asked them to use only red rods because I wanted them to practice counting under 10 if it was possible. With K I let them choose the rods. 
As I called their names, I wrote the name and the number of rods on the board as I repeated the numbers for them to hear. 
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Another class, I showed the kids two videos: Alina Celeste: 
 www.youtube.com/watch?v=40ivxEBg9d4
Contando Calabazas: 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyY-LUeiLbs&list=PLbT3_q7FKpzK8XfsFpG_IVYbs4efNrzuG&index=56&t=0s
​After talking about the pumpkins and what they had on their faces, I gave each student a laminated picture of a gourd and a dry erase marker. I showed them how to draw a Jack-O-Lantern and set them free! I took pictures to upload to  Seesaw and describe later. I may even use some of them in stories...
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Finally, I read in a Facebook group about a book called The little old lady who wasn't afraid of anything. I decided to act out the story with props. It was a hit!
We practiced clothing vocab, is afraid/not afraid, goes to plus feeling words. 

Here is our scarecrow, chilling in the back of the room. I will definitely use him in a story in November.