This partner writing game is always a favorite, year to year! Students can't wait to play it and improve and learn from their mistakes in the game they played earlier in the year, "Monster Draw." (Scroll down to see the results of that game!) This year, we practically had twin drawings, the writing and reading was so good!
Here's how you play:
Step 1: Draw a snowman and a winter scene.
Step 2: Describe your snowman with.... You guessed it! ADJECTIVES, ADJECTIVES, ADJECTIVES! Describe size, shape, color, and number with every sentence! Organize your writing into paragraphs, so it is easier for your partner to read and comprehend.
Step 3: If you did Step 2 well, you will be able to hand your description to a partner, and they will be able to draw your picture almost exactly!
Winners were voted on by the classes. It was an exciting competition! Enjoy!
Alena's Snowman (3rd grade)
My snowman has three balls. One big ball is on the bottom, the next ball is medium sized and it is in the middle, and the last ball is on the top and is the smallest.
The smallest ball on the top should have a hat on the top. It should have a yellow belt on the hat, and the rest should be black. The head should have black eyes and glasses around the eyes. They should be small rectangles. The nose should be in the middle. It should be orange and small. The mouth has a smile made of seven pieces of black coal.
The middle circle should have arms that are medium size with three fingers. On the right there should be a red book. Where the head and the middle ball meet, there should be an orange scarf. The middle will have three small blue buttons and the rest of the middle ball should be yellow.
The last ball is the bottom ball. It should have red boots.
Now the background should be a long line about up to the bottom ball. There should be a tree on the left. The tree's trunk should be brown. The leaves should be green. On the top right, there should be a yellow medium sized moon.
I know you can't see it from where you are, but Alena's penmanship was so neat and easy to read! For being one of our youngest players, she was so clear with her paragraphs! She got Alyssa (4th grade) to draw this!
Rayne's Snowman (5th grade)
My snowman is a girl. She can be a little tricky to draw if you don't pay attention. There are three main parts of my snowman. She is standing on a hill.
The head is a horizontal rectangle that is colored purple. But first, you will have to draw six coal pieces as the mouth. She has a carrot nose facing down that is orange. She has two square eyes with thick eyelashes on the top of the eyes. Her pupils are black and facing the snowman's left. The rest of the eye is colored blue. She has four strands of hair sticking off the top of her head that are spaced out, black, and leaning toward the snowman's left.
The middle section is a horizontal short oval that is colored aqua green. It has no outline.
The bottom is a vertical rectangle with three buttons that are black going vertically down the rectangle. The rectangle is colored lemon yellow. The arms are coming out of the bottom of the middle section, and the top of the bottom rectangle. The arms are made of four snowballs that are colored pink. There are three black twig fingers coming out of the last snowball. The two feet are like half ovals that are colored blue.
The background is fun to do, so listen closely. There is a sun in the snowman's right corner peeking out. There are four rays of sun that are yellow, and the sun is also colored yellow. There are two clouds in the middle of the sky that are not colored. The rest of the sky is lightly shaded blue, but still neat, but not fully colored. The hill on which the snowman is standing takes about a fourth of the paper and is not fully colored, but shaded green.
Rayne is a pro at this game! This is her 6th game and she knows how to describe her art! Look what she got Caren (4th grade) to draw!
Caleb's Snowman (4th grade)
(All directions are from your perspective.)
The bottom snowball of the three snowballs is a really big horizontal oval. The middle snowball is a medium sized circle. The top snowball (the head) is a small circle shape. All of the snowballs are white.
In the middle of the head (top snowball), there is a large orange pointy carrot that points to the right. There are two black eyes above the nose. There are five black coal pieces for the mouth that is shaped like a frown. On top of the head there is a brown arc shape.
In the middle of the middle snowball there are three black coal pieces that are vertical. On the sides of the snowball, there are tiny brown arms with three tiny fingers.
On the bottom snowball there are black lines that are diagonal and start from left to right and go from top to bottom.
Below the bottom snowball there is green spiky grass. On the right of the snowman's head, there is a gray bird standing on the snowman's middle snowball. The bird is tiny with an orange beak. The bird's head is a vertical oval. The bird's body is diagonal. On the top right corner of the paper, there is a yellow circular sun. Next to the sun on the left is a gray horizontal oval cloud.
Caleb's Snowman makes me laugh! That grouchy face with a happy bird on his shoulder is so funny, and he described his picture so thoroughly that Neel (3rd grade) produced this!
Sasha's Snowman (5th grade)
My snowman's body has seventeen small balls going vertically and one big ball on top of them. On the last small ball (the one nearest to the big ball), there is one stick arm going out of each side. On the most bottom small ball, draw two small stick legs.
On the head (the biggest ball), there is a ball that almost takes up the whole ball. Then draw a ball inside it that is only a tiny bit smaller. Color this circle orange. It is an iris. Then draw a medium circle. Color it black. But leave one tiny ball white. (It is near the bottom of the pupil.) Under this eye, draw a tiny smile. On top of the head, there is a brown pony tail that sticks up. It is spiky. The hair band is sky blue. The hair is light brown. Now outlines the whole snowman in violet, including the arms, legs, and pony tail. Outlines only the outside of the snowman.
In every small ball there is one small sky blue circle. Caution! Do not put one on the head.
Draw a line which is the ground across the middle of the page. On YOUR left, draw a yellow sun with eleven lines as the rays. Do not outline these yellow! On each side of the snowman, there are five snowflakes, which are balls. There is no sky!
On the ground, not above it, there are trees and hearts. On YOUR left, there are three trees that are made by a triangle and a small brown rectangle under it as the stump. They are not in a line as they are scattered. On YOUR right, there are four more of the trees.
For the hearts, there are three hearts on YOUR left and four hearts on YOUR right. They are magenta, and they are scattered.
Happy Snowman Drawing!
As I watched Sasha draw this in class, I thought to myself, how is she going to describe this? But she did it so well, that my 8th grade assistant Mira (who ended up being partners with Sasha due to an odd number of students that day) drew this!
Kathleen's Snowman (5th grade)
My snowman is pretty simple with three snowballs: the bottom one is large, the middle one is medium, and the stop on is small. The snowman is outlined with bright orange and he sits on a flat snowy ground.
He wears a round rimmed green hat with a red buckle in the middle. His eyes are two small and turquoise circles. His nose is an orange carrot that points to the snowman's left. He has seven small pink circles as a wide smile.
He wears a striped scarf that is red and white, just like a candy cane. The snowman also has three heart-shaped purple buttons going straight down in the middle. He has two brown arms pointing out on each side of him, both containing three stick fingers.
On the bottom snowball, it is just a big round snowball with nothing on it.
In the background, there are five snowflakes-- two on the left of the snowman, and three on the right. There are also tiny pine trees the height of the bottom snowball. They are dark green with two on the left of the snowman and one on the right. The snow is outlined with light blue, same with the snowflakes.
Kathleen was so clear that Amelia (4th grade), an amazing reader, read it and drew this!
