The Tomasinos

This week at school, the First Graders had a "Family Project".  They had to decorate a pumpkin like a character from a book.  The entire first grade hallway is lined with their pumpkins and books.  On Friday, all of the students in the school will vote, with change, on their favorite.  Then, all of the money is being donated to Helping Hands.  Eli first said he wanted to do Spiderman. I convinced him that that wasn't really very creative, and there would probably be others that did it too (and there were).  He has been doing great at reading the Fly Guy books with little to no help, so we settled on that one.  The instructions said there could be absolutely no carving or puncture marks.  However, I resorted to using some staples because the E6000 glue and hot glue were either not drying quick enough, or it was pulling the acrylic paint off the pumpkin.  In the end he was happy with our choice and we got lots of compliments when we carried it in and set it up at school.