Edison students compete for best pumpkin!

Edison students design "Chicken Little" pumpkin. Holding sign that says "The Sky Is Falling" — Edison students design “Chicken Little” pumpkin. Holding sign that says “The Sky Is Falling”

The title of “best pumpkin” is up for grabs at Edison Elementary as 19 classrooms compete for the trophy.

fourth-grade teacher, Jackie Holzhey said the competition was started last year as a morale boost for the kids.

“Get all the kids involved in working as a team and working together,” said Holzhey.

Each classroom in the school has picked a theme for their pumpkins and students are working together to design what they hope will be the winning gourd.

“I painted the white on there and I did the two sides,” said fourth-grader Isaiah Maxey.

Al Williams said he picked out the baseball theme for his fourth-grade class pumpkin.

Fourth-grade class paints baseball pumpkin

“I helped paint it,” said Williams. “It’s a baseball.”

Each classroom will create their pumpkins this week, then they will be displayed for parents to see. Holzhey said next week students will get to vote on their favorite pumpkin which cannot be their own. The classroom that wins will get a trophy.