During a regularly scheduled art class for fifth-graders at Tye River Elementary School last week, art teacher Claudia Van Koba told her students to “think outside the pumpkin.”
Those words weren’t something the students heard every day.
Last Thursday was special, however. The students were creating works of art on pumpkins to enter into the Saunders’ Brothers Pumpkin Carving and Coloring contest on Oct. 31.
“What you got going for you here is a three-dimensional canvas with an orange background,” Van Koba said.
Saunders Brothers donated more than 300 pumpkins to be colored, not carved, by the students for the entire elementary school to enter into the contest. They also donated the markers that were used by the students.
“Three hundred kids with knives is not a good thing,” Van Koba said last Thursday.
The best 50 pumpkins from the school would go on to the contest and have a chance to win cash prizes.
While most of the students are drawing some of the usual Halloween-inspired pictures, like Frankenstein, ghosts or jack-o-lantern faces, others have different ideas in mind.
Emma Lipscomb drew a horse on the side of her small pumpkin and Jerry Page drew a World War II fighter scene on his.
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