Book Character Pumpkin Decorating Contest

At my son's school they announced a contest to decorate a pumpkin like your favorite book character. What a fun literary project! He picked to decorate his pumpkin like Elmer the Elephant. We were very last minute, and completed it last night. It took an hour for the whole project. I searched pinterest and google and found tons of other great ideas. We picked a character we didn't see in hopes of not duplicating another child's pumpkin.

 

 

We dropped Elmer the pumpkin off in the library this morning. (The instructions to make him are at the bottom of this post). Let me share a few other characters we saw there...

 

The Gruffalo pumpkin

 

 

Mrs. Piggle Wiggle pumpkin

 

The Lorax pumpkin

 

Black Lagoon themed pumpkin

 

 

 

Lyle the Crocodile pumpkin and Frosty the Snowman

 

Pete the Cat pumpkin

 

And here are a few more ideas I found in my initial search to create a book character pumpkin. Many of the following were uploaded to Pinterest by Elanco Library.

 

Skippy Jones pumpkin

 

 

Laydbug Girl pumpkin

 

 

Bob the Builder pumpkin

 

 

Olivia pumpkin

 

Wimpy Kid pumpkin

 

 

Mr. Popper's Penguins pumpkin

 

 

 

Madeline pumpkinT

Thomas the Train pumpkin

 

 

Little Critter pumpkin

 

The Very Hungry Caterpillar pumpkin

 

 

 

 

Dora pumpkin

 

Horton pumpkin

 

 

Cat in the Hat pumpkin

 

 

Alice in Wonderland pumpkin

 

 

Captain Underpants pumpkin

 

 

Charlotte's Web pumpkin

 

Bad Case of Stripes pumpkin

 

 

 

Grouchy Ladybug pumpkin

 

Fly Guy Pumpkin

 

Junie B. Jones pumpkin

 

Click Clack Moo pumpkin

 

Pigeon pumpkin

 

I hope this helps you design a pumpkin for your contest. I think it is such a clever idea. Here is how we made our Elmer the elephant pumpkin.

 

Supplies:

Modge podge

Colored paper (regular paper...not card stock or construction)

Paper towel holder

Googly eyes

 

1. We started by cutting a variety of different colored squares.

 

2. We heavily modge podged them to the pumpkin. My son was great at this part. (Such a last minute project that we used a toothbrush instead of a paint brush to modge podge!!)

 



 

3. Next, we modge podged a paper towel holder with squares. (See it drying on the Elmer's glue bottle)

 

4. We hot glued the ears, eyes, and trunk on Elmer. If you look closely I added a few small nails to make sure the trunk and ears stayed.

 

5. Here is my son's masterpiece!