Our local newspaper is sponsoring a pumpkin decorating contest. Not the usual kind of pumpkin decorating, where a real pumpkin is used....but more like a virtual pumpkin, where a picture of a pumpkin is decorated.
The online edition of our newspaper provided a link to a picture of a pumpkin. Everyone (kids AND adults!) was to print out the pumpkin and using imagination and creativity, decorate away! The winner gets his/her creation published in the Halloween edition of the newspaper (how's THAT for a prize!).
When I mentioned this contest to Analisa and Quinn, they almost tripped over each other racing for the markers and glue and construction paper.
As I stood by and watched, I was AMAZED at their creativity and ingenuity! Never, in my wildest dreams would it have occurred to me to make a "Puppy Pumkin" (that's Quinn's idea!) or a "Franken-Pumpkin" (that belongs to Analisa). They also made a "Queen Pumpkin" and a "Princess Pumpkin" complete with crowns, big eyelashes, Angelina Jolie lips, and dangly earrings.
I was so impressed with how creative they were, I just wanted to share it on my blog.
It's always so important that we encourage creativity and imagination in our children. So let 'em go, and you may be more surprised that you bargained for!
~Lisa
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Lisa,
ReplyDeleteCan you share the link to the pumpkin? I'd love to have my children do this, just for the fun of it! Thanks!
Evie
Hi, Evie.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry for the delay in getting back to your request.
I couldn't find the newspaper link, but I have a software program and found a picture of a pumpkin and was able to save it as a PDF.
If you still want it (I know, Halloween is over), shoot me an email Lisap@MyLittleRembrandt.com and I'll send the image to you.
~Lisa