Literary Pumpkins: Stage One


Every year during this time, the lobby is festooned with Literary Pumpkins. Each class picks a favorite class book and they decorate a pumpkin or pumpkins to emulate the cover of the book. Throughout the years, our pumpkins have been "Piggies", "The Three Billy Goats Gruff" and the "Australian ABCs". This year our pumpkins are going to be from Mary Engelbreit's Mother Goose Book . There will be one big "Mother Goose" pumpkin and various nursery rhyme characters around her, for instance (The Dish and the Spoon, Humpty Dumpty, and Jack and Jill).
Today, we had parents come in to supervise the children's painting of their pumpkins. We can't wait to see the finished products tomorrow!!

Helping with color choices.

Having a lot of fun working with the children.

Comments

Lourdes said…
Trick or treat? Definitely a treat working with the kids. It was so much fun. Can't wait for the finished product.
October 13, 2011 at 10:08 PM
Christa said…
What a talented & wonderful class! It was a blast working with the kids, teachers & parent volunteers on such a fun project. I'm looking forward to seeing how it all turns out :)
October 13, 2011 at 10:26 PM
Kelly said…
Looking forward to this year's display! I have been hearing a lot about this project at home!
October 15, 2011 at 10:01 AM
Kelly said…
I'm all caught up now on the blog posts! Thank you for all your hard work. It's so nice to take a peek into the kindergarten day! My little guy is loving kindergarten.
October 15, 2011 at 10:23 AM
Jennifer Davey said…
That was so much fun working with all of the kids. What a great group of students you all have!!
October 16, 2011 at 4:40 PM
Crissy said…
Such a fun project to do together! I saw the literary pumpkins today and love them!
October 17, 2011 at 5:51 PM
Suna Kantor said…
It turned out great, so cute!! Thanks everyone
October 18, 2011 at 5:12 PM
Kristen Tiurchy said…
I finally saw the literary pumpkins and they are darling! Your class definitely ranks up there as some of the best. Great job! Thanks to the parents who took time to help out.
October 18, 2011 at 7:17 PM
Anonymous said…
Pumpkins and display turned out great! Thanks to the parents who volunteered their time to make it special for each kid!

Casey Stephens
October 23, 2011 at 7:41 AM
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