Pumpkin Decorating for School

As you have already read, Collin wanted to enter the pumpkin decorating contest this year at school.  The only rules are that the pumpkins cannot be carved and they will not be able to return them to the students.  This year's categories are:

• Most Original
• Funniest
• Best (by grade level) 
• Scariest
• Best Overall

Collin wanted to create a scary pumpkin.  He has learned from other projects like this to look on the Internet and get some ideas.  I like that it's him typing in the search terms to find what he is looking for.  Here are the two pictures he found.

He really liked the flames on the second picture and wanted to make his pumpkin like that one.  First, we both painted the pumpkin white for the background.  We had to wait for the pumpkin to dry between each coat of paint.  While waiting for it to dry, we tried to come up with some costume ideas because he has not settled on anything yet.  Next, I drew the outline of the picture for him to paint.  He decided to use markers and crayons because we were out of black paint.  This worked out well anyway because the decorating went much faster....we did not have to wait for the pain to dry.  He was VERY happy with out the pumpkin turned out.  I have to agree with him.

We have to bring the pumpkin to school Thursday for it to be judged.  These will be on display during the Fall Festival at school this Friday.

Update:  He did not win a prize for his pumpkin but that did not bother him.  I forgot to check later during the Fall Festival to see if anyone bought his or not.  We should have but were too exhausted at the end of the Festival to see what pumpkins were left.  Collin has not even mentioned his pumpkin so I guess it was not a big deal to him anyway.