Literary Pumpkins

We don't celebrate Halloween (just our choice), but we do like to decorate pumpkins

in a non-halloween way.

 

Last fall, I wanted to find a creative way to combine pumpkin decorating

with something the children were doing in their academic lessons. 

This birthed our literary pumpkins.

 

The basic idea is to decorate a pumpkin

 to look like a character from a favorite book,

or a book that has recently been read.

Our oldest son is a fan of the Larryboy chapter books. 

He chose to decorate not one, but two pumpkins,

and created Larryboy and the villain, Iceberg. 

(OK, one is not technically a pumpkin,

but we had to supplement to get the right shape for Larryboy.)

Our oldest daughter had just finished reading Charlotte's Web. 

She decided to make a pumpkin into Wilbur and paint his crate green.

   

Wilbur's crate would not be complete without it's Zuckerman gold letters and Charlotte on top.

Naturally, Charlotte's web reads 'Humble;' our favorite web word

Charlotte made for Wilbur.

This year, we have several ideas we like...

a tiny Pilgrim with a huge pumpkin for his burdensome bag

from Pilgrim's Progress

or

a very blue pumpkin with affixed blue arms, legs, and head to be

Violet Beauregarde from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

(depicting the scene where she tries the chewing-gum meal,

and expands like a giant blueberry)

or

perhaps another character will lend itself well to our

literary pumpkin theme...

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This post has been linked to Kids Get Crafty at Red Ted Art,

 Walls of Art Wednesday at Pink and Orange Coffee,

and Read Explore Learn at JDaniel4's Mom.