The, Just A Little Bit Scary, Pumpkin Patch

Alright, this is actually our fourth Halloween class plan from our Rainbow Yoga Inner Circle… The difference is that this one is mostly more innocent and directed at younger children.


There is a bit more focus here on pumpkins, but ghosts and monsters still make an appearance as it is never too early to start being super brave - All while knowing that we, grownups are here to keep you safe, of course.

 

This is only a part of our dull class plan - Please join  our Rainbow Yoga Inner Circle for the full class plan which also includes a warm-up, many more yoga games and a special pumpkin patch relaxation.


To Bring: 

  • A Small Pumpkin (or apple)
  • Toilet Paper Rolls (optional) - One for each 2 people
  • Medicine Singing Bowl

 

The Pumpkin Patch

Entering the pumpkin patch we will go through the gate - Gate pose - Open and close the gate. From kneeling, bring one leg out straight to the side, with your whole foot on the floor. Put one hand on your straight thigh and stretch the other arm high up. To complete the pose, bend sideways toward your straight leg, lengthening from the tip of your raised palm. After a few breaths, switch legs.

 

Try also in pairs with Gate Poses side by side

Fence - Stacked Planks (yes, even little kids can do this with a bit of help and feel oh so proud of themselves!) - The base starts in a push-up position, shoulders stacked above wrists. The flyer first holds the base’s ankles and then places the top of their feet one after the other on the base's shoulders. Both partners keep a nice shape with their body not letting their hips sag down.

 

2 Steps ladder is easy, but with families or with older kids you can also build it 3 or 4 people high, each facing an opposite direction… For this, place the stronger people at the bottom and the lighter people at the top.

Ploughing The Field - One person does the Plow Pose and the other sits back to back with them (legs can be straight or crossed) holding the plow’s hands which are now the handles or gears. Then switch places.

 

Planting Pumpkins -  All the kids come into seed pose (Child Pose). The teacher goes around and presses seeds into the earth (press on hips) or children do this to each other.

Everyone can keep resting here for a while and wait for the teacher to come by and water the seeds with rain, tapping fingertips up and down their backs, and warming them up with sunshine, brushing and caressing their backs.

 

Sprouting Pumpkins - Slowly sprout coming out of Seed Pose until you are squatting, or balancing on your toes if you can.

Pumpkin Vines -  All the kids lie on their backs with knees folded  into their chests and hold each other's hands (like the vines connecting pumpkins together in the field).

 

Keeping the “vines” on the floor with all of the hands connected, the kids roll their knees from side to side (Supine Spinal Twists).

 

You can also sing the Roly Poly Pumpkins song:

The teacher can go around and help the kids by pressing knees to chest or helping them twist.

 

 Big Pumpkins- Lie on your tummie, bend your knees and hold your ankles. Now lift your legs with your arms and your arms with your legs making your self big and round like a pumpkin

 

Sing roly poly song again rocking the pose back and forth and side to side.

 

Jack-O-Lantern -  In Pairs, one child does the Pumpkin Pose while the other slides through and does the Cobra Pose making a carved pumpkin face.

 

A bit more advanced can be with one child lying on their tummy getting ready to do the Bow Pose with their partner now lying with their tummy on the first partner’s sacrum. The bottom partner now holds their ankles like in a bow pose while the partner on top comes into Cat Pose. For this to work, both the bottom partner’s heels need to be on the top partner’s lower back.

 

Jack-O-Lantern Yoga Game -  

 

  1. Curl up into Child Pose and make different faces like Jack-O-Lantern - Call out face to make and then hide your face between knees between each emotion (like peek a boo!)... Happy, sad, surprised, scary, silly!
  2. Come into Bow Pose again and again, each time making a different kind of face.

 

Collecting The Pumpkins - All the kids now return into Child Pose and the teacher goes around collecting them and placing them one on top of the other in piles of 2-4 pumpkins neatly in the barn. See how long the pumpkin piles can stay balanced before the topple down!

 

15 Minutes

 

The Zombies Are Coming

Oh No!

 

The zombies smelt the pies!

 

All the children sit in the circle. Pick one zombie leader to do a zombie walk. As the end of the zombie train walked past the seated kids it turned them into zombies and they joined the end doing the zombie walk. 

 

As you rach forward with your stiff zombie hands you can even call “pumpkin pie” in a zombie kind of voice :-)

 

Keep going until the whole class is doing a zombie follow my leader. 

 

5 Minutes

 

Wrap the Mummy

Not Environmentally friendly… But super FUN and I used bamboo toilet paper which is better for the environment and I have put all of the paper in our compost at the end… Up to you…

 

In pairs, use toilet paper to see who can wrap a human mummy the fastest. You know how the game goes!

 

Add to the fun by making another race to "undress" the mummy and get all the toilet paper in the trash. The kids will love it, and you'll get help with the clean-up.

 

5 Minutes

 

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