Every year our PTA asks each class to decorate a pumpkin for our Fall Festival. They're raffled off for a fund raiser. This year we got a choice between a pumpkin or a canvas to decorate.
Yay!!
I picked... a canvas! Yeah, I suppose the idea was that each kid might put a thumbprint and make it into a little pumpkin face, but I decided I'd go a different direction on the idea of canvases and pumpkins.
I hung the painting in the front of the classroom and asked my students to think about who might live there and what the pumpkins were for. I told them we'd make a book to go with the painting for the auction.
First they thought, imagined, and talked; then they wrote... 
Oh, I do have a wonderful job! Such creative hardworking little people I spend my days with!
I hope our little project makes a few dollars for our school.
I bet it will.
Original Oil Painting - 8"x 10"
[SOLD]
It's a wonderful painting and a great idea to make a book to go with the painting. You are a very good and creative teacher!!
ReplyDeleteOh, Thanks! It's always fun to see them excited about writing... for any reason!
Deletethe pictures are great but I bet the stories are better. Lucky them as they have you and your imagination.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Nelvia. Their stories are pretty great. :)
DeleteI was the lucky winner of such a special piece and now have a treasured book of my daughter and all her classmates' stories. Mrs. Eaton ROCKS!!!
ReplyDeleteYay! I love that you got it! I hope you find the perfect spot to hang it.
Delete