Literary Pumpkins

Have you ever hot glued 137 pipe cleaners onto 67 pumpkins? Well Miss Lipsky has (and she has the burns to prove it!). Last week we created "Literary Pumpkins" to go with this awesome book we'd read, Jimmy Zangwow's Out of this World Moon Pie Adventure. In this book, author Tony DiTerlizzi, tells the story of Jimmy a boy who just wants to eat one delicious moon pie before dinner. Obviously, Jimmy's mother says no, so Jimmy hops in his jalopy to travel into space and hunt down moon pies. While in space Jimmy gets to talk to the moon, make friends with 999 Martians, and almost gets attacked by the evil Grimbly Grinder! I don't want to ruin the rest of the story for you but I'll tell you that Jimmy does end up getting to eat a moon pie (but only after supper!). Miss Lipsky's homeroom created a giant Grimbly Grinder pumpkin. Mrs. Shannon's homeroom created the character of Jimmy by using a medium sized pumpkin for his belly and a smaller pumpkin for his head. Alyssa brought in a pair of goggles that work perfectly as Jimmy's flying goggles and Jimmy is currently wearing a pair of Miss Lipsky's old jeans (apparently Jimmy shops on the women's side of Express...don't tell!). Third Period, the Phillips/Pinchot homeroom, made the moon. C.J. brought in a "sleeping cap" and Krystal even let us break a pair of her old glasses to complete the display!

The real hard work however went into making the martians. Each student brought in a small pumpkin and painted it orange (painted an already orange pumpkin orange again?! Well, Mars is redish-orange, so Martians would be that color too. Deal with it.) The martians had their arms and legs hot glued on and Miss Lipsky took pictures of each student to cut out and use as the Martians faces. You have to see these creepy, little, aliens!!

Of course, everyones favorite part of the "Literary Pumpkin" decorating day was eating their very own delicious moon pie. Yumm! Even Miss Lipsky enjoyed one...or five.

None of this would have been possible without the awesome support of the parents and families of our students. The Amazing Mrs. Appleby (the Lipsky homeroom mother) organized the entire event. We want to say an extra special thank you to Jakob's family, Jackie's family, and Joe's family for donating so much for this project. And thank you to Mr. Lipsky (Miss Lipsky's dad) for giving us the book in the first place. Pictures are coming soon!