I saw this idea on Pinterest and absolutely loved it! I was so excited to try it out this year and had a pretty good response. The idea was for students to create a pumpkin that looked like one of their favorite book characters. It fit so perfectly with Halloween and family reading night being in the same week! So, I sent home a packet with each student explaining the project. The packet included a cover letter explaining the project and that it was just for fun. I also included some examples, a card to fill out about the book character, a page to write a character description and a list of character traits to assist students in their writing. Here is the packet:
And finally.... the pumpkins!! Aren't they adorable??
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| Toothless from How to Train Your Dragon This was the student choice winner, the mouth fell off... apparently hot glue doesn't stick too well to spray paint. |
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| Little Hedgehog... Teacher's choice winner! |
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| Willy Wonka from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.... love the hat and chalk nose! |
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| Huey from Oh Say Can you Say? Gottalove a good Dr. Suess! |
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| Silverlicious....is this not the cutest thing you've seen? |
I was so proud of all of the pumpkins! We had one more too but unfortunately I did not get a good picture..he paper mached (is that a word?) the hat and everything.
And after a long week....this was our Friday night. You know your old when it's 6:45 on a Friday night and this is what you look like, remember when we used to stay up til 4 a.m.???? ha.
