Adjectives, Adjectives, Adjectives!! They are very important when an author is attempting to paint the perfect picture in the reader's mind. Adjectives can tell size, shape, color, and number. And this is the theme of the Monster Draw Game! We enjoyed this assignment at Halloween time.
Step 1: Draw a monster. (Having a background will give you more difficulty points during judging.)
Step 2: Describe your monster in vivid and complete detail.
Step 3: Exchange descriptions with a partner. Attempt to draw each other's monster. Monsters who are practically twins will win the contest!
It is always fun to see the improvement in kids as they take repeated workshops with me. These first two girls started off in my program as wee 1st graders. Their first Monster Draw game in 2nd grade was a flop; they both remember! Now look at them in 3rd grade! Voted class winners! Congratulations Anjalia (writer) and Sammie (reader)!
My paper is vertical.
My monster is a medium green square with fat blue stripes. It has no fur or skin. It has two big black vertical oval eyes with a black circle pupil at the bottom of it. It has no nose. Its mouth is red and smiling. Its mouth is closed. It is medium. It is shaped like a U. Its two arms are pink small rectangles with no fingers. Its legs are small purple rectangles that have no feet. It has no clothing. Its standing on a fat green floor with one purple circle at the bottom, one on the right, and one on the left. Oh! I forgot all about the antennae and the lollipop. The two antennae have a black vertical line with a yellow circle on top. In my monster's left hand (my monster's left NOT YOUR left), there is a lollipop. The stem is purple and the part that you eat is pink. Okay. Back to the background. There are three gray tall triangle mountains in the background that are overlapping each other. There is a dark yellow medium ball with the same color spikes coming out of the ball for the sun.
Can you see my monster in your head???
Next we have two returning students who have been with me for a few sessions as well. Mathis (5th grade) is just a wee bit interested in Greek mythology and attempts to bring mythical creatures into every assignment I give! Here he drew a Poseidon monster, and described it so vividly that Morgan (4th grade) could practically draw his twin! Congratulations you two!
My monster is a cyclops with one large, round, and brown eye in the middle of his head. His skin is peach. He is smiling and holding two big, round black boulders in each of his hands. He is in the middle of the page. He has no nose. Above his head there is a blue trident. He has shaggy brown hair. He has a long sleeve shirt with a blue trident and underneath the word "Poseidon" is written. The shirt is green around the trident. He has brown pants and blue shoes. In the background, he is floating on a small brown circle just big enough for him to stand on. Last but not least, there is a sun on your right with rays of orange and yellow. He is floating away in the sea.
This last group is an exciting combination of a 3rd and 5th grader! This was Nicole's (3rd grade) first time playing the game. Francesca (5th grade) wrote very carefully and clearly to help her partner achieve this match!
Notice: The whole thing is slanted from the bottom right corner to the middle left. There is a line that she is standing on (the ground.)
My monster has two arms, both bright orange, and he is flexing, so they get wider when they attach to his body. His hands are circular, with no fingers. He has four legs, also bright orange, with circular feet and no nose. The hands and feet are orange, with the hands being small.
Her head is also a body, and she is very round. She has a medium size pink bow sitting on her head/body. She has a light blue mustache, medium sized, with a dark pink tongue, pretty big, sticking out from under it. Her eyes, which are large, are ovals, with a half circle on the bottom half. That circle is cut in half with a vertical line. The right half (your right) is colored with pencil. The other side is with dark blue. The eyes are above the mustache horizontally.
There is a tree to your left that has gone behind her arm. The trunk is brown and the top green. It is medium size. There is a medium size gray rock to your right. Below the ground there are three patched of grass in each corner below the ground. The rest below the ground is white. The sky is scribbled blue with spaces.
Try to draw my monster.
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