Literacy Pumpkins

Chi's Sweet Home

Quarter 2 started a few weeks ago and it was really close to Halloween and I really wanted students to get a chance to paint pumpkins!  So, our school librarian and I came up with an idea to display Literacy Pumpkins in the library!  I had all of my classes (except 4th hour) work on illustrating their favorite book.  We learned our Painting Vocabulary with elements and principles and then painted our pumpkins!  

It was a success!  Students really enjoyed it and had a fun time!  I think the only drawbacks/concerns I would have for next time is one, my room looked like a pumpkin patch for a couple weeks!  There were pumpkins everywhere!  So make sure you have enough storage, thankfully I had lots of shelves! And two, the yellow paint dried and chipped off.  I did not know it would do that, so there were several Simpson's and Spongebob's that crackled and fell apart.  

All in all, students were engaged, we have a nice display and it was really neat seeing the books that the students are into!