Emotional Pumpkin

As part of covering the health curriculum, a colleague of mine suggested this fun Halloween related activity.  Each student cut out four identical pumpkins.  As a class we listed all the different emotions we could think of.  We talked about how to handle those emotions and the cause and effect of them.  They decided which four emotions they wanted to portray on their pumpkin.  Folding them in half, we glued them together to create a 3D pumpkin that we could hang above our desks.  Once everyone was finished, I read them the story called, "Mouse Was So Mad".