Adjectives, adjectives, adjectives! They tell size, shape, color, and number. And if you don't include them, your reader will get an incomplete picture in their mind of what you are trying to describe! That was the theme of our On Demand Writing Game, "Monster Draw." Here is how you play:
Step 1: Draw a monster, complete with background if you have time.
Step 2: Describe every aspect of your monster and background. Don't leave out a single detail! Because....
Step 3: Trade descriptions with a partner. Now you will draw each other's ONLY by reading what they have written. No talking or asking questions allowed!
As you can see, this game gives students instant feedback about their ability to use detail in their writing. We all had some good laughs as pictures were compared near Halloween Day. The winners were voted on by the class. Enjoy!
Theo's Monster (5th grade)
My monster is a pretty big guy that takes up most of the page. He looks like a snowman. His head (like a snowman) is the smallest of the three. It is blue with a green border. Its eyes are yellow, and its eyebrows are orange. He is mad. His mouth is in a sad face, and his mouth is orange. He has three yellow, thin horns that go left, right, and up.
The middle part of the monster is (like a snowman) is middle-sized. It has a green border and is blue. This ball has a face too! This face has large eyes without pupils that are yellow. His mouth is wide open and is orange. He has two orange stick hands, and one of them is carrying a small yellow jack-o-lantern that has a mad face.
The third ball at the bottom has a green border and is blue. It is the largest ball out of all the three. Its eyes are just two simple straight lines going horizontally that are yellow. The mouth is also a simple yellow line that goes horizontally, but it is longer. Its legs are short and they have orange boots.
The background is just a light blue sky with a purple half moon in the right corner.
Theo is an absolute pro at this game! This is his 6th workshop with me, and it shows! That detail is amazing and so easy to follow. Ben (5th grade) was happy to draw this twin!
Ella's Monster (5th grade)
My monster is a cute and fancy guy. His body is a big triangle that takes up lots of space. The triangle is an orange-red color. He has large, closed brown eyes. On his right eye is a large monocle that is gray. The monocle has a little shine on the top right side. Connected to the monocle is a squiggly rope with gray beads in between.
He has a brown long mustache. His mustache is close to this eyes. The monocle should go on top of the mustache. The mustache has a little bit of red in it. It is curly at the end. Underneath the mustache is a red tongue. The tongue should face downwards and right.
My monster has two small, yellow legs and feet. He has no shoes or toes. He also has two yellow arms. The right arm doesn't show its hand. Some of the arm is cut off out of the paper. The left arm should have a fancy black watch. In his hand should be a small white teacup. The teacup should have two pink splotches and one purple splotch. The drink inside should be turquoise. Under the tongue is a bowtie. The bowtie has a black circle in the middle. Next to the circle are two triangles. The triangles are turquoise. A black stripe is at the end of each triangle. At the top of his head is a big, black top hat. The top hat should be slightly tilted to the right. Lastly, the background is plain white.
Ella's monster is so cute and she described him so perfectly! Clara (6th grade) nailed it!
Julia's Monster (4th grade)
My monster is a happy guy. His head is shaped like two circles, one big and one small, like a horse. It is dark green on the outside and apple green on the inside, a little smaller than a horse’s. The whole body is facing to the side, so you only see one eye, and that eye is a little less curved than a rainbow, otherwise just like it… and black. His ears are also like a horse, only bigger, and dark green on the outside and dark peach on the inside. The nose is very small, just one black dot where the nostrils of a horse is. This monster has no mouth.
The neck and body are connected, both the same color of the head, except the chest is the same peach color like the inside of the ears, and has lines going horizontally, two to be exact. The underside of the belly is the same as the chest, even the same number of lines, though going vertically. The monster has four feet without any kind of imprinting, connected with the body and the same color, dark green on the outside and apple green in the middle. The tail is kind of shaped like a right triangle, split diagonally so there is a “ish” backwards trapezoid on top, same kind of greens, and another right triangle on the bottom, peach with two lines going vertically.
This monster also has wings, true green and apple green where the saddle would usually go on a horse.
The background has a yellow moon in the top right corner of the paper with outlined black circles randomly placed on the moon, eleven of them. The sky is shaded light black and the ground is outlined in brown. Oh… I forgot, the monster is facing the right and there is a jack-o-lantern in front of him… except the stem is replaced by a round, black handle. And the whole paper is horizontally placed.
Can you guess my monster?
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