Onekama Elementary: Creating pumpkins from a fence post!

The Great Pumpkin Project

I created my pumpkin by first painting it orange. Then I let it dry and painted a yellow face on it. Last I put a stem on it and some vines. I think my pumpkin is happier now that it's a creation. ...Moriah

My pumpkin is on my desk. I think it likes how it is now because it didn't have a face, or it didn't have paint on it. I think it likes where it is now because it isn't in the cold. I think it likes where it is now because it isn't connected to other boards. ...Austin O.

I decorated my pumpkin because I thought it would look very cool. I put a smile, two eye brows, bulge eyes and a nose. I got my creation from thinking of a smiley face. Then I tied a pretty green ribbon on it and put on an inch of a branch. My pumpkin is on the kitchen table. ...Brittany

I think the pumpkin is happier at my house on the CD player. I like mine the most because it has sharp teeth. ...Curtis

Mine is different because mine has a scary face and triangle eyes, and a round nose. My pumpkin is sitting in my living room on my T.V. I think it likes being at my house. I named my pumpkin Mr. Pumpkin, because he is a pumpkin. ...Jessa

I put my pumpkin on my t.v. I will get it off my television the day after Halloween. I like my Frankenstein pumpkin. My mom, and other people in my family like my Frankenstein pumpkin too. It was hard to make my pumpkin. ...Jacob B.

Our class made pumpkins out of wood. First we each got a piece of wood. Next we painted the wood blocks with orange. Then we let it dry overnight. We painted the face with yellow. We let them dry overnight. Last we glued a little piece of wood on the top and tied it with string. That's how we made our wood pumpkins. ...Elizabeth

My pumpkin is on my Mom's desk. I think my pumpkin feels better being a pumpkin rather than a fence post, and he is cute. ...Emily B.

My pumpkin is made of wood and it looks like a werewolf. We had to paint it. It is scary. It has a top. It has a scary face. ...Hunter

My pumpkin is on the steps now so people can look at it. I think it is better now than a post. It is better now because it has tons of attention. My pumpkin can get to see all the nice sites. He can enjoy himself. ...Jena

I gave my pumpkin to my aunt Carel who is visiting. She is going to take it home to Wisconsin. ...Kelly

My pumpkin is a cat. It has eyes, a heart shaped nose, and whiskers on it. It is very cute. I took it home when I was finished. It is on my table. It went from fence post to cute little cat pumpkin. It was fun to make. ...Amy

My pumpkin is at my house right now. It is sitting on top of my bird's cage. I think my pumpkin likes it at my house more than when it was a post. ...Miranda

At the end of doing it it looked like Frankenshine. It had a lot of freckles too. I liked my pumpkin a lot. ...Brandon B.

The first thing I had to do is paint all the sides of my block orange and let it dry over night. The next day I painted a scary face on my pumpkin so it would scare people. Then the next time we worked on them I put a stem on the top. My final creation is when I put on the vines and tied them in a bow. My pumpkin looked a little scary when I was done. My pumpkin is on the window sill next to my brother's pumpkin. I think my pumpkin is happy next to my brother's. ...Rebecca

Last we took them home. And we put them where we want to put them. ...Emalee

We did it at social studies. We painted the face. That for me was a difficult decision. I finally got it. I made its eyes like moons. Its mouth is regular. It is a happy pumpkin. Now it is in my mom's sub classroom in Bear Lake. She thinks it is really cute. ...Annie

We had to put several coats of paint on it. We waited for the paint to dry. Then we painted a face with yellow paint. We also had to put on several coats of paint. Then we glued a branch on it for a stem. My pumpkin looks like a long rectangle with big eyes, but eyebrows and a long mouth. ...Joe

We painted it orange on Monday. Then we painted the face with yellow on Tuesday. We didn't get to do it on Wednesday because we had a sub. Then we finished it off on Thursday by putting a stem on it. When the glue was dry we put the ribbon on it and took it home. ...Parker

The shape of my pumpkin was a cube. Now it looks like a werewolf. Now it is on my kitchen table. ...Derek

October 29, 2004

Right now my pumpkin is sitting on my desk by my name tag where it will be safe. ...Jacob M.

We got our pumpkins from a fence. We used paint to color the log. We used the colors orange and yellow. ...Josh

I made a pumpkin out of a fence post. I made it with orange and yellow paint and wood. When I was done it looked uglier than everyone else's. My pumpkin is in my kitchen now on the table. ...Sarah