Pumpkins for Sonic!

For the last 3 years, Sonic in my districts town provides pumpkins for each 1st grader in my building. They always deliver them 2 weeks before Halloween and ask that each first grader paints a pumpkin. The kids always love this because they learn in kindergarten that when they are first grade they get to paint a pumpkin for Sonic! Sonic picks their pumpkins up about a week before Halloween and creates a pumpkin patch in front of their store! It always looks so great! Students can then go pick up their pumpkins on Halloween from Sonic and take them home! It never fails each year we do this, mother nature decides to let it rain ( and usually it pours) and some years the rain has washed the kids designs off their pumpkins(we have used regular paint, tempera paint, oil pastels in the past and no such luck) So this year, we used paint pens that we rotated around the art tables to ensure all kids got to use all the colors provided and it worked like a charm!!!! It poured this year after Sonic came and got them but their designs stayed and they of course looked awesome!
So note to self, paint pens are the way to go!!!!

Check them out below! The kids had a ball painting with paint in a marker form. They thought it was so cool!

 

Love these personalities! Makes me smile!