All right, I need everyone's help, especially those of you who are crafty and creative - you know who you are.
Matt's school has sent home a project - we have until October 19 to complete it (it must be at school on the 20th.) The project is: "Decorate a pumpkin as your favorite book character." This is the website that they provided for inspiration. We also have to provide the book with the pumpkin.
We brainstormed a little last night, and are considering doing a Freight Train themed one, with a big pumpkin for the engine and little ones for the freight cars, but it seems like a lot to transport to school. Another possibility is constructing some kind of pumpkin bathtub for King Bidgood's in the Bathtub, which is a book he loves. Again, that could be complicated.
So, WE NEED YOUR HELP.
All suggestions are welcome. Matt doesn't really have a favorite "character" per se - he likes most books. Some of his favorites are the Dinosaur books, the McDuff books, the Pigeon books, and My Truck is Stuck, as well as just about anything else about trains, trucks, or construction equipment. He has a ridiculous number of books, so if you've got an idea, we've probably got a book that goes with it.
Let's hear what you've got!
3 comments:
How about a brontosaurus? A medium sized pumpkin body (preferably a somewhat elongated one), a wooden dowel neck (maybe 3/4" or 1" diameter), and a midget ornamental pumpkin with a face drawn on, for the head. Stumpy dowel legs. Maybe a dowel tail, unless you can think of something that tapers and can be shaped into a slight curve (a really skinny zucchini?).
I mentioned this on the phone but will add it in case it jogs someone else's creative bump.
For King Bidgood's in the Bathtub:
A small 8" king figure (Grandma will find one) could be added to half of a pumpkin painted with gold to be the King's bathtub. Then Matt could add the things that the king uses in the tub - toys, musical instruments (harmonica?), little boat, play food, etc.
Other thoughts:
Mike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel: Let Matt help to paint the pumpkin red and add some dowels and a little scoop to represent Mary Ann, Mike Mulligan's steam shovel. You could cut a little window and let Matt choose a Lego figure to be Mike Mulligan.
Harry the Dirty Dog:
Let Matt help to paint the pumpkin white and then add some black spots (Harry is a white dog with black spots) and paste on some eyes and a mouth.
Goodnight Gorilla:
Let Matt help paint the pumpkin brown and add the eyes and mouth (glued on). Then add some rattle-type colored keys (not sure how you would make arms -stuffed brown socks?)and let Matt choose some of his stuffed animals (lion, etc.) to be the animals that gorilla lets out of the cages.
I don't think that the representation has to be too perfect for a three- or four-year old to get the idea of the character and it would be good for Matt to really have a hand in doing the project.
Just thought of one more:
The Little Engine That Could:
Let Matt help paint the pumpkin blue and make a smokestack out of a toilet paper roll and add black wheels (card stock, plastic lids?) and some eyes. Then add a small box with the same wheels behind it for the train car full of toys and let Matt choose the small toys that the engine is pulling over the mountain.
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