It is Red Ribbon Week at Sidney's school (the anti-drug campaign) and there are lots of different activities. As it is Halloween week as well, many of these things involve costumes, pumpkins, etc.
One thing that is happening is a pumpkin decorating contest (no carving allowed). The pumpkins are to be decorated as a character from a favorite book. One of our favorites is The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson, a British author we were introduced to in Norway (illustrations by Axel Scheffler). We decided to base our pumpkin on the Gruffalo himself. It was a bit of a messy project involving spray adhesive and fuzzy yarn, but I think it turned out pretty good. I tried to incorporate each "descriptive" item given by the Little Brown Mouse about the Gruffalo from the book:
"Terrible tusks and terrible claws,
and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws;
knobbly knees and turned out toes,
and a poisonous wart on the end of his nose;
his eyes are orange, his tongue is black,
he has purple prickles all over his back."
There will also be a character parade on Friday, and Sidney will go as the Little Brown Mouse. While the Gruffalo is the title character, the mouse is actually the hero, as he is quite clever in the ways he avoids being eaten by the various other characters in the story. I am currently finishing her costume by sewing (by hand - I don't know how to use the machine) the ears for the costume. So far, it looks pretty good. I will add a picture of her wearing it later.
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