School Project

Bryce came home 2 weeks ago with his first BIG assignment. His instructions were to pick out a book, read it, write a book report on it & THEN to take a pumpkin & turn it into the main character of the book. His first thought was TRANSFORMERS. NO! Even as creative as Bryan & I, I thought that one might be a tad hard to do. Plus not fun to write a book report on a book about Transformers. SO, we went looking through our bookshelf for a book that Bryce would love. And we came across a book about a Turtle. For anyone that knows Bryce, you know how he LOVES Turtles. So, this was a perfect fit I thought. Plus the Turtle in the book was way cute & I knew right away how we could turn our pumpkin into a Turtle.
SO, Bryce read his book, wrote his report & then made his pumpkin. YES, he did most of the work. I guided, bought something we used for the head & bought a hat, and then helped with the hot glue because he didn't like it burning his fingers, but he painted & drew and it looks Awesome. He LOVES it, & I think it is the cutest thing I have ever seen.

SO, Here it is:
Bryce's Book Report, titled: RED, RED, RED

He is so proud of it, as he should be. He did awesome!


I love this view. Doesn't he have a cute face!


You can't see his face as much in this view, but you can see his shirt & pants. Yes, in this story the turtle wears a green & white stripped shirt & orange pants. He wears a white hat with a red stripe.



Really, I can't get over how cute it turned out. Would you believe we used a fake mango from Hobby Lobby for his head. The stem of the pumpkin is his neck & I just put a whole in the mango & glued it on.



Bryce used construction paper to make the marking on his back. The only instructions for the pumpkin were to not cute or puncture the pumpkin. They don't want them going bad at the school.

When we were finished Bryce loved it soooooo much that he said he wanted to keep it forever. At first I told him we would always have pictures of it. That wasn't quite good enough though. So then I came up with a brillant plan. I am going to buy one of those fake pumpkins and we will paint it & then take everything off this pumpkin & put it on our fake pumpkin when he brings it back home. Then he can have it forever.

This was such a fun project. I am glad that I got to share this with Bryce! I love Bryce's artistic talents, he just ahh's me all the time.

Hope you enjoyed our little project. I knew family especially would enjoy seeing what Bryce created!