Pumpkin and a Book Contest/Fundraiser

Every October the kids school has a Fall Festival. It's a big deal in our rural community. The whole community comes out to the school for dinner and carnival games. And each year there is a silent auction for the "Book Pumpkins".

Pumpkin and a Book is a fundraiser for our school. Each classroom decorates a pumpkin like a book character, or to go along with the theme of a book. I helped in Carlie's 2nd grade class this year. We did "Pinkalicious".

Pinkalicious is a story about a little girl who eats too many pink cupcakes, then wakes up completely pink the next morning! Every part of her is pink! And she LOVES it, because pink is her favorite color! She puts on her favorite pink fairy dress, and a crown when her mom takes her to the doctor. The doctor tells the little girl that she must eat all green foods to return to her normal color. But she doesn't want to be normal. She loooooves being pink! After they get home from the doctor she cannot resist and eats yet another pink cupcake. When she wakes the next day she is RED!! But she does not like red! So she spends the day eating every green food she can get her hands on and turns back her normal color. But at the end of the book her little brother comes in and he has turned himself PINK too!!

It's a very cute story! There is also "Purplicious" and "Goldilicious". Both are super cute stories!

We decorated our pumpkin to look like when she turned totally pink! Complete with cupcake!

The kids had great fun painting! I really enjoyed helping too!

Before the pumpkins are auctioned off at the Festival, they hold a contest in each grade to see who has the best pumpkin. We didn't win. Another teacher, who had an "I Spy" pumpkin won. It was a neat idea. She had an "I Spy" poem on the pumpkin and then the pumpkin was covered in a zillion little things and you had to look for the items in the poem!

The kids and I look forward to doing our "book pumpkins" every October!!