Halloween Book Characters

Halloween is such a fun time in first and second grade and this year our school held it's first ever Book Character Pumpkin contest.  Each class decorated a pumpkin to look like their favorite book characters, and everyone was awarded a prize.  Our class created the characters Stingray, Lumphy, and Plastic from the book "Toys Go Out," a book I love to use as a just for fun chapter book read aloud, and we were awarded "Best Overall."  Seeing how excited the kids were, I decided (some days I thought it was against my better judgement!) it would be fun for them to each create their own book character from a pumpkin and decorate it however they want.  That meant for a few days our class was covered in streamers, tissue paper, glue, tempura paint, googly eyes, and the list goes on. It may have looked like a slight disaster zone, but the end results were worth it.  Check out our book characters below! More tomorrow on who we tied it in to our reading workshop lessons and of course a second book project....