Thursday, October 21, 2010

Pumpkin Contest!!

We are all about Halloween around here! We've got our fun decorations up around the house, a couple of pumpkins out on the porch, and we are eagerly awaiting trick or treating.  In the meantime, we have entered a pumpkin in a contest at Aidan's school.  Aidan came home with a flyer that gave us all the details and he was super excited to participate.

I asked him what he wanted to put on the pumpkin as the contest required paint and no carving.  He thought about it and waffled between a Frankenstein, Vampire & a Dragon. We finally narrowed it down to a Dragon! Aidan and I looked online for some images and we saw a few that we liked. The trick was, which one Mommy could draw on the pumpkin!! 

I gave it a shot and drew a long dragon that wrapped around the pumpkin.  Then came time to paint! We only had three colors - blue, green, and hot pink.  Aidan decided what colors he wanted where and we set about painting the dragon.

It took a couple of days because the paint had to dry between coats.  The pumpkin skin didn't take the paint very well, it even peeled off a couple of times!

Eventually, it was done and ready to go to school.  What do you think?!

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