Snowman Draw Game!

 My returning students were very excited to play this On Demand Writing Game (think Monster Draw a few months back!) where they get instant feedback on the importance of descriptive language and adjectives!  Here's how you play:

Step #1: Draw a snowman, complete with background and plenty of colors.

Step #2: Describe your snowman and scenery with adjectives that tell size, shape, color, and number.  Make sure your writing can be read!  Don't leave out a single detail, because....

Step #3: Trade papers, and draw your partner's snowman as they try to draw yours!

Winners were voted on by the class.  Enjoy this set of amazing artwork and writing!

Marlo's Snowbird (5th grade)

        My snowbird has a round white belly with a light cloudy blue head that slowly fades into white. On its belly, it has 20 short thin lines about as long as the nail on your pinky finger. The lines are dark blue.

        My snowbird has a long, dark green, thin leaf for a wing, with lots of thin veins. 

        It has a little orange carrot for a beak and a tiny sesame seed that is brown for the eye. On the back of the head, there are three ovals poking out of the head. The ovals are horizontal and the middle oval is longer than the others.  They are light green and a tiny yellow flower is poking out of the top of the middle oval.

        The tail is a long-stemmed flower with two leaves, one on each side. The stem and leaves are light green with a tiny white flower on the end. 

        There is a wiggly light blue line behind the bird at the height of the neck. There are two more short light blue lines in front of the bird. In the sky, there are eight dark blue snowflakes evenly distributed.

    * It's facing your left.

    * The whole thing is outlined in black.

    * The whole bird is about the size of your hand.

I love how Marlo wrote so carefully, and then when she reread her work, she added in details with * to help Aria (6th grade), get it just right!

Jilly's Snowman (5th grade)

        Body- My snowman is in the middle but is more near the left side. He has a circle head on top of a bigger circle body. Like the rest of the body, it is outlined in black. It has three buttons about a thumb nail away from the head. He has two little legs sticking out underneath him. (He's sitting down). He has two arm triangle hands on his hip. Everything on the body is outlined in black. Yes, the arms are black.

        Face and Head- His face is like the snowman version of the angry emoji face. He has two eyebrows pointing down, and black eyes. He has a yellow-orange nose with four lines. The hat is at the top of the head and is leaning toward the left.  The hat is a normal top hat outlined in black.

        Background- The background has dark green grass a pinky from the bottom of the page. There are two flowers. The one on the right side is pink with five petals and no center. It has the same dark green stem with two petals not colored in. The one on the left has the same stem but five red petals. The flowers are small. There is a dark light blue as Crayola calls it sky, but it is pretty medium. Shade lightly. The sun is a circle in the upper right corner. It has 19 lines coming out that are black. The sun is outlined in black, but colored yellow. The shading goes a whole pinky below the top of the paper. The sky does not go tightly to the sun. Do not color the space between the lines. Good luck!

Wow! Jilly got her partner Diba (5th grade) to draw this snowman twin! I love the grumpy faces!

Vianna's Snowman (3rd grade)

        My snowman is very cute. It looks like a cat and is colorful. My snowman only has two snowballs. The bottom snowball is round on the top, but ends like a square. The two corners at the end are found. The top snowball is smaller than the bottom one, but it is a normal kid-drawn circle. Her eyes are black colored. Just draw an oval, then a little circle a little far away. The nose is triangle shaped with the mouth in an upside down V. The ears are a triangle shape with a little triangle inside.

        My snowman has a rainbow-colored scarf and two mittens with cat shaped paws. There is a happy sun. Sorry I am out of time!

Vianna took a little longer than she wanted to to write her description, so Ina (2nd grade) ran out of time. But the class STILL voted them the winners because they were so close with so much potential!

                                                            Cora's Snowman (4th grade)

        My snowman is really simple. Start by drawing two circles: the bottom one is big and the top one is small. Then, add three circular buttons on the top one, about the size of a pinky nail, so really small. This 2/3 of a snowman is kind a on the RIGHT side of the paper. It has two stick arms coming from the middle (top) circle. Do not fill in! Two twigs are coming from the sticks at the ends. Add a line for the ground right under your big snowball. 

        Next, draw the poor head on the ground about an inch away fro the 2/3 snowman. The head is an inch around. It has two eyes, same shape and size as the buttons. Add a small frown in the appropriate place. Add seven circles in the sky, same shape and size (scattered). Now, trace everything in black pencil. Add shadows on everything on the right side. Color the buttons red, the arms brown. Add six PINK snowflakes like this * in between the circles in the sky.

Wow! Cora gave very explicit "how to" directions! Kylie (4th grade) was a great reader and produced this match!

                                                        Annabelle's Snowman (5th grade)

        Draw a small-medium circle at the top of your page, but leave enough space for the Santa hat. Draw the Santa hat curving the "right" way in a red color. Next, connect the fist-sized medium circle with the upper one. Leave enough space for the base, big circle. Draw the big circle connected to the medium circle. Below that, draw two elf shoes pointing sideways. Color them dark green, and add one little yellow circle on both the shoes.

        Now, draw a scarf connected between the most top circle with the Santa hat and the medium circle. Make two parts of the scarf hanging down on the right side. Color the sarf in the pattern of a peppermint candy cane. Red, white, red, white. Draw two little circles on the second circle for the buttons and then two more on the third. Now, draw two brown sticks poking out of the middle circle. Add three fingers on each stick in brown. In the left and right hands, draw a candy cane, white, red, white, red. For the face, draw two cutie eyes only 1-2 inches apart from each other. An orange carrot nose with three lines sticks out in the middle. Draw eight dots in gray for the mouth (smile)! For the background, draw eight sky blue snowflakes around the page. Finally, outline the snowman in sky blue. You're done!

How cute!! Annabelle gave such clear drawing directions that Aubrey (6th grade) drew a very festive twin! Both girls are such talented artists!

Congratulations to our winners! These students have really improved in their adjective use, and are becoming very thorough writers. I'm proud of them!

Snowman Draw Game!

 My returning students were very excited to play this  On Demand Writing Game (think Monster Daw a few months back!) where they get instant feedback on the importance of descriptive language and adjectives!  Here's how you play:

Step #1: Draw a snowman, complete with background and plenty of colors.

Step #2: Describe your snowman and scenery with adjectives that tell size, shape, color, and number.  Make sure your writing can be read!  Don't leave out a single detail, because....

Step #3: Trade papers, and draw your partner's snowman as they try to draw yours!

Winners were voted on by the class.  Enjoy this set of amazing artwork and writing!

Kaia's Snowman (5th grade)

        My snowman's head is separated from the body.

        The snowman is on a green and gray slope that goes pu to about 1/3 of the paper.  In the top right corner of the paper, there is a full moon with five different sized craters, and it is colored yellow, and then colored over in a thin layer of pencil.  Below the moon there are two purple birds that look like v's.  On the other side of the paper, there are two more purple v birds at the same height as the first two birds.

        On the top of the hill, there is the snowman's body, but not hte head.  First draw a medium-sized circle on top of the hill, then draw two circle buttons in the middle of the medium circle.  Then draw the stick arms, but make sure they are painted diagonally to the ground.  On top of the medium sized body, draw a bigger circle on top.  

        On the bottom of the big circle, draw a round button.  Then outline all the body in purple.  Then on the right side of the paper on the hill, draw a circle smaller than the medium circle.  Then draw two coal eyes.  Then draw a mouth with seven coal circles, and a carrot nose in yellow-orange, facing the right side of the page.  Then outline the head in purple.  Then on top of the head, draw a black top hat with a stripe of red.

        Net, draw a pink flower on the left side of the page, then draw a smaller purple flower on the left side of the pink one.

Wow!  Kaia was so detailed, and so very creative with her art!  Her clear directions got her partner Aarushi (5th grade) to draw this near-perfect match!

Cora's Snowman (3rd grade)

        This snowman has three snowballs stacked on top of each other: smallest on top, biggest on the bottom.  The biggest one is a bit more oval-ish, but that was an accident.

        The eyes are two big circles with smaller black circles inside.  The black circles are slightly looking up but still not touching the bigger circle.  The eyes are about thumb width apart.

        The nose is a small-ish medium carrot that has no sharp corners.  The carrot starts below the middle of the eyes, about halfway through the head in both directions.  The carroti s facing the right side of the page.  The nose has some lines in it, and is colored with yellow-orange.

        The mouth is right under the nose and is pretty small.  It is close, and softly smiling.  

        There is a kiwi green scarf that is in between the head and the middle snowball.  The tie on the scarf is on the right tassles on the end.  There are some shadows and shading around the scarf in pencil.

        On the second ball there are two star buttons colored with pencil.

        The arms are sticks that have pointy things on the end that look like fingers, but there are only three of them.  The left arm is down and the right arm is up like it is waving.  The left arm has two leaves and the right arm has one.  The sticks are brown and the leaves are kiwi green

        The third ball is blank but behind it is a bumpy line that looks like snow.

Wow!  Cora's description is so clear that Marlo (4th grade) could draw this practical twin! 

Joon's Snowman (4th grade)

        My snowman has two circles, with a square on top.  The bottom one is indigo, the middle is red, and the top has a blue top and black bottom.

        In addition, the middle snowball has an indigo triangle and the bottom has three brown buttons, top to bottom.

        There is a small red sun to the right, up above the snowman.  There are tiny circles surrounding my snowman!  Finally, my snowman has a green line under it, with a brown line under that, stretched to the sides of the paper.

From that clear description, Matthew (4th grade) was able to replicate Joon's snowman precisely!

Angela's Snowman (6th grade)

        This snowman is in the middle of the paper, but the head of the snowman is the length of your middle finger away from the top of the paper, bascially meaning that it is a little higher than the middle to leave space for the ground.  To begin with, a regular snowman's three body parts are usually smallest to biggest, top to bottom, but my snowman is biggest to smallest top to bottom.  In the biggest circle, which is the head, there are two regular eyes the size of your pinky nail.  For the nose, instead of a carrot, it is a 5-pointed star colored in sky blue, about the same size as the eyes.  On the nose's left and right, there are small little circles in red for cheeks.  For the mouth, there are eight small orange triangles to make a smile.  On top of the whole head is a sky-blue star in the center, a little bit bigger than the nose.

        The second body part is a circle slightly smaller than the head, with two star arms sticking out the same size as the star hat on top of the head.  By the way, the stars are diagonal to resemble the regular stick arms.  In the body are two green circles, a little smaller than the eyes.

        In the last part/circle, the circle is smaller than the second one.  A green button/circle is in the part, the same size as the first two.  The rest of the snowman is colored in peach.

        For the ground of orange snow, there are three violet purple stars the size of your pinky nail in the ground.  First, draw a squiggly line under the snowman's bottom part for the ground.  The stars are on the center top, bottom left and bottom right.  There are three squiggly lines on the top left, top right, and bottom center.  The rest of the ground is orange.  There are six yellow stars in the sky, the same size as the star hat.  Three are on the left, three are on the right.  Make sure you scatter them.  The rest of the sky is green, facing out on the top.

Wow!  What detailed writing!  These two girls have won this game before, and make an excellent reading and writing team.  Here is Allison's (6th grade):

Audrey's Snowman (5th grade)

        My snowman has three balls.  All of them are about the size of your fist balled up.  You will draw these with dark blue.  Then shade them with light blue.  The snowman is in the middle of the page.  The first ball has nothing on it.

        The second ball has three dark blue buttons.  They are about the size of the eraser on your pencil.  They are positioned vertically with space in between them for another button.  Next there are two arms sticking out.  They are dark brown.  The arms are horizontal and the width is about the size of the buttons and the length is about an inch.  You should have a shaded in rectangle when you're done.

        The third ball is the face.  There are two eyes that are also the same size as the buttons.  They are black.  Then draw a carrot for the nose.  It is a right triangle.  It is pointing to the right side of the paper.  Next under the carrot, there are six pieces of goal arranged in a smile.  On the outside of the third ball, there is a pair of green ear muffs.  The ball part is even with the eyes.  Draw a curved line above the head to connect them.

        There is a house to the left of teh snowman.  The house is a triangle on top of a square.  The outline is brown.  The house is the height of the first ball.  There is a red door with a doorknob in the middles, and there are two blue windows with a cross in between.  The triangle is shaded in with dark brown.  The square is light brown.

        There is a purple circle to the right of the snowman as a moon.  There is a purple line as the ground under the snowman.

Audrey is a pro at this game, but Sheryl (5th grade) had never played before.  Sheryl did a fabulous job reading Audrey's careful details; look at this match!

Congratulations to our winners!

Snowman Draw Game!

My returning students were very excited to play this  On Demand Writing Game (think Monster Daw a few months back!) where they get instant feedback on the importance of descriptive language and adjectives!  Here's how you play:

Step #1: Draw a snowman, complete with background and plenty of colors.

Step #2: Describe your snowman and scenery with adjectives that tell size, shape, color, and number.  Make sure your writing can be read!  Don't leave out a single detail, because....

Step #3: Trade papers, and draw your partner's snowman as they try to draw yours!

Winners were voted on by the class.  Enjoy this set of amazing artwork and writing!

Risha's Snowman (3rd grade)

        My snowman is made of two big snowballs.  It has two tiny, black, round eyes.  Its nose is s small orange carrot nose.  It has a big smile with four pieces of black coal for the mouth.  On the top of its head, it has a beanie with a black pom pom.  The top half is red, and the bottom half is green.  My snowman has black stick arms, and they are facing up.  I love its clothing!  Its wearing a scarf with eight red rectangles and seven green rectangles. The background has gray snow at the bottom with snow falling.

Risha wrote so clearly, that her partner Ella (3rd grade) drew this very close match!

William's Snowman (4th grade)

        My snowman is made of two snowballs.  The snowball on the bottom is a teeny bit longer than the top one.  He sits on a snowy hill with some grass.

        My snowman has an aqua blue hat with a black and yellow buckle on it.  His eyes and smile are made out of little pebbles.  His nose and horns are made out of carrots.  He has a yellow and orange scarf.  His arms are made out of sticks, and he has "half snowballs" to show he has muscles.  He has two buttons on his belly.  He also has a yellow and black belt.  He is a blue snowman.

        On top of him, (there is a little space), a little to your right, is a gray crescent moon.  To the right of you, there is a light blue cloud and there are medium sized snowflakes that are blue underneath the cloud.  To the left of you, there is a red house with a brown roof and two yellow windows and doors.

William had never played this game before, and look how accurately he wrote!  He got his partner Chuyu (4th grade) to draw this!

Sara's Snowman (4th grade)

        My perfect snowman is tall and has three round balls that build up, like a typical snowman.  Her bottom ball is larger than the rest, her middle one is medium-sized, and the top one is the smallest.  My snowman amost touches the top of the page.

        She wears a cute turquoise beanie that does not go that high, but the dark purple pom pom that is placed directly on the top gives it an extra length.  The base of the hat is a rounded triangle.  The pom pom also has a red heart in the middle.  Her eyes are the size of the holes on the left side of the paper and have two small cirrcles placed diagnoally across from each other.  The middle of the eye is black.  My snowman of course has a carrot nose.  The nose is an orange gradient starting darkest from my left to the side, and it faces the right side..  The mouth consists of tiny coal circles forming a smile reaching from one side to the other.  My snowman also has pink cheeks.

        The middle of the body is pretty simple.  It has two medium-sized heart shaped buttons with three black dots, one on the bottom and two on the top.  The buttons are placed in the center of the middle of the middle circle, and are in a normal place you would see coal buttons.  The heart shaped buttons are a darker pink color.  Finally, she has two stick arms that have three tiny stick fingers.  They reach to almost the edge of the page and stick out in a straight line.

        The lower ball also has a heart shaped button, and looks exactly the same but is slightly bigger.  The color of my snowman's body is a super light pink.

        My snowman's background is white, but has three dark pink clouds.  One is placed under YOUR right arm and all look like a normal cartoon cloud.  Another is placed a few inches above the same arm, and is the same color.  The last one is directly on the other side and the same color.  There are eight medium snowflakes, and behind the bottom ball are light yellow hills.  They are half circles.

WOW!  Sarah wrote A LOT with great description!  She and her partner almost ran out of time, but Myles (4th grade) read carefully and drew quickly, and got this super match!

Congratulations to our winners!

Snowan Draw Game

 The students were eager to have another go at this On Demand Writing Game where they get instant feedback on the importance of descriptive language and adjectives!  Here's how you play:

Step #1: Draw a snowman, complete with background and plenty of colors.

Step #2: Describe your snowman and scenery with adjectives that tell size, shape, color, and number.  Make sure your writing can be read!  Don't leave out a single detail, because....

Step #3: Trade papers, and draw your partner's snowman as they try to draw yours!

Winners were voted on by the class.  Enjoy this amazing artwork and writing!

Mika's Snowman (6th grade)

        First, start on the bottom middle of the paper and draw a ball the size of your fist.  Leave an open space on top so that the circle above looks realistic.  Then draw a circle filling the gap on the first circle.  But leave a gap on the top of the circle like the first snowman circle.  Then, draw a full circle filling the gap on the second circle.  The bottom circle should be a big circle, the iddle should be slightly tinier than the bottom, then the top should also be a bit tinier than the middle.

        Now go on the shoulder of the snowman and draw a wide letter u shape.  Make it as thick as half of your thumb and color it red.  Now draw a curvy rectangle with five fringes on the right.

        For the face, draw two black eyes, then go a little down the eyes and draw the carrot nose, which is yellow-orange.  Now on the bottom of that, draw six black circles tinier than the eyes.

        On the tip of the head, draw a top hat that is a rectangle as thick as a pencil, then draw a cube on top of it.  Color it black.

        Now draw an ice cream cone with three scoops of ice cream on top.  The bottom color of the scoop is green-blue.  The next scoop is magenta.  Then the top scoop is pink.  Then there is a cherry on top.  It is red, and the stem is jade green.

        Then draw six snoflakes the color of green blue, and five purple snowflakes, scattered all over, but not under the bottom ball.

        Now you're done!  

  

Even though Mika forgot to describe the arms and which hand was holding the ice cream cone, she rocked the other descriptive parts, and her buddy Arielle (6th grade) created this from Mika's writing!  (I think their friendship helped Arielle read Mika's mind about the arms and ice cream!)

Irene's Snowman (5th grade)

        My snowman has two snowballs.  The bottom snowball is perfectly round, and the bottom of the snowball nearly touches the bottom of the paper.  The entire snowman is slightly tilted to YOUR left.  The top of the bottom snowball touches the middle of the apper.  The snowman has two medium buttons, each with four black button holes.  The button itself is dark gray, and are spread equally apart vertically in the middle of the bottom snowball.

        Connecting the top and bottom snowball is a yellow scarf.  If you hold the scarf vertically, there are horizontal red stripes on it.  There is an end sticking out on your left, and it has green fringe on the edge of the end.

        The top snowball is a little smaller than the bottom snowball.  On it there are two eyes.  The eyes are little dots that are very low, about on the 1/3 point of the top snowball.  They are very far apart from each other.  On the same line as the eyes is a short, thin, organge carrot.  On top of the head is a light turquoise hat.  On the top of the hat is a pomp pom.  The hat has two ends hanging down, each with a pom pom on the end.  The pom pom on your right hangs down to the scarf.  The other goes down just past one of the two small arms.  Each arm is next to the scarf and has three fingers.

        The ground is right below the bottom snowball and is purple.  The entire drawing is outlined in black.  There are two curves on your right of the bottom snowball.

Wow!  That is really clear writing!  Irene got her partner Cho (5th grade) to draw this twin!

For this last set, I just had to display Emily's (5th grade) writing.  This is what great writers do!  Write quickly, make edits, use arrows, erase until it's clear... I thought this was a fabulous example of how to play this game.  Emily proofread as she wrote and added in details that helped this team to win!

Wow!  Even the shades of green on the tree match!  Great job reading and drawing, Elise!  (5th grade). My heart MELTS for this pair of matching snowmen! :)

My "Budding" class did the assignment a little differently.  They drew a snowman, and then using size, shape, color, and number adjective notes, they wrote a description about their art work.  We hung all snowmen up on the wall, and if the snowman could be guessed just by hearing about it, that student knew they were a great writer!

My Snowman, by Luci (1st grade)

         My snowman is made up of two medium round white snowballs.  It has two small round eyes.  Its nose is one medium orange triangle.  It has a medium smile mouth with nine pieces of black coal.  My snowman has a big half circle hat with blue and purple halves.  I love its clothing!  Its wearing green striped mittens.  The background has purple mountains.  I think my snowman is pretty!

My Snowman, by Idri (2nd grade)

        My snowman is made up of two big small yellow and brown snowballs.  It has two medium oval brown and black eyes.  Its nose is huge, pointy, purple, and orange.  It has a medium round purple mouth.  On the top of its head, it has an antennae.  My snowman has big, stretchy, brown arms.  I love its clothing!  It is wearing straight, furry clothing.  The background has trees.  I think my snowman is great!

My snowman, by Acey (3rd grade)

        My snowman is made of two small, round, gray snowballs.  It has two medium, round, dark black eyes.  Its nose is small, round, and red.  It has a small smiling mouth with give black pieces of coal.  On the top of its head, it has a small, curved, green hat.  My snowman is wearing a red scarf, pink and purple mittens, and a green beanie.  The background has a big green tree and ten gray snowballs.  I think my snowman is cute!

The Snowman Draw Game!

 The students were eager to have another go at this On Demand Writing Game where they get instant feedback on the importance of descriptive language and adjectives!  Here's how you play:

Step #1: Draw a snowman, complete with background and plenty of colors.

Step #2: Describe your snowman and scenery with adjectives that tell size, shape, color, and number.  Make sure your writing can be read!  Don't leave out a single detail, because....

Step #3: Trade papers, and draw your partner's snowman as they try to draw yours!

Winners were voted on by the class.  Enjoy this amazing artwork and writing!

    The traditional style snowman is resting on a flat-styoe slightly rounded hill about a fourth above the bottom of the paper.  It is very slightly to the left of the paper.

    His smallest ball, the head, has a back top hat shorter than his head.  This hat, if doubled, could reach the top of the paper.  It intercepts a small bit of the forehead with a black rim.  The hat itself is also black.  An orange carrot nose extends from the middle of the head to the end of the eye on the reader's left.  The eyes are half-circles to depict a cheerful expression.  They are inked in a regular blue.  Just below the nose, a smile with four dots, the length of the nose, is drawn right under it.  The head is outlined in black.

    The first body ball is one and a half times larger than the head.  A red and green scarf goes from the readers' left to their right.  It begins red and ends green, totaling six sections.  Slanting upwards is another different portion of the scarf, beginning green and ending up halving the fourth color red.  From that portion's second color (red) on is another portion.  It is stark red.  It ends with red, totalling three sections.  Directly beneath the scarf is an inked blue button.  After twcie the button's height is another, and then a third.  

    The last ball is just a bigger ball.

    The background is white, with a yellow sun in the upper right corner.  There are ten rays around it.  It is in a circle.  The height of the green tree is the same as the last ball.  It is draw in an easy arrow fashion.  Slightly shorter than it, to the reader's left, is a tree drawn similarly.  It's to the alignment of the sun.  In a "v" pattern are three birds on the reader's left.

Vivian's (5th grade) writing was so clear and easy to follow, that Allison (5th grade) could draw this twin scene!

    My snowman is not any regular snowman.  My snowman is well, a snowcone.  My snowman's cone is blue with 18 dark blue snowflakes.

    His mouth has seven small round black dots forming his smile.  His nose is medium sized, pointing to his right.  He has two big black circular eyes above his nose.  On the top of his head he has a small red cherry with a long green stem.

    Back to his cone.  His cone is triangular, light blue, and has 18 dark blue snowflakes scattered around his cone.

    My snowman is on top of a big green hill in front of the blue sky.  There are two purple spikey flowers with green stems beside him.  The weather is clear and bright.  My snowman looks very happy.

What a creative snowman, Audrey!  (5th grade).  Caitlin (4th grade) read carefully and drew this match!

On Demand Descriptive Writing: The Snowman Draw Game

 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,  "Snowman Draw."  Here is how you play:

Step 1: Draw a snowman, complete with background if you have time.

Step 2: Describe every aspect of your snowman and background.  Don't leave out a single detail!  Because....

Step 3: Trade descriptions with a partner.  Now you will draw each other's snowman 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.  Many of these students played "Monster Draw" just months before, and they showed amazing improvement from then to now!  The winners were voted on by the class.  Enjoy!

Julia's Snowman (4th grade)

Warning: You should probably read each paragraph first, then draw, and move to the next paragraph. The last paragraph is probably the hardest to draw.

My snowman is traditionally shaped, plain, and not very interesting. His smallest ball is at the top of the snowman, around the middle of the page, the medium ball in the middle, attached to the smaller one by the smaller ball over lapping the middle ball in the top quarter. The middle ball does the same for the largest one. All of those balls are white.

The bottom ball is the most boring. All it has are two, black, medium size shaped, and round buttons.

The middle one has the same black balls as the largest one, and it has two, plain, traditionally shaped, brown arms that jut out at the middle of each side. The middle ball also has a light cerulean and true green, striped scarf, that is between the middle ball and the small ball. The scarf has 12 sections, and light cerulean and true green alternate starting from the left with blue, adn going to the right with blue, green, blue, green, and so on.

The smaller ball has a black hat that is formed by two rectangles, kind of like a top hat, but without a buckle. The eyes are black, small, and of course there are two of them. The nose is the same shape and size, a little below the eyes, and in the exact middle of them. My snowman’s smile is formed with the same black circles as the other facial features, only that there are five of them. 

This snowman stands on plain, white ground, and the snow is a pattern falling around him. It starts with three circles at the top of the page, dividing the page in fourths, then four snowflakes (circles) below them, splitting that part into fifths, and right in between the first three snowflakes. The pattern then repeats and creates a kind of diamond shape with every four snowflakes that are together. If you see this snowflake pattern at the right angle, you will see that it is only eight diagonals. It is crucial to see it like that because the coloring will alternate between cerulean blue and white, starting with blue, and coloring each of the snowflakes in the diagonal the same color. The paper is vertically placed.

Julia wrote so clearly, that her partner Jessie (4th grade) drew this twin!

Kevin's Snowman (6th grade)

My drawing is vertical. My snowman is in the center of the paper. He is made up of three snowballs. The first one is towards the top of the paper in the middle . The first snowball is circular. It is pretty “medium-ish”. In this snowball, there are the snowman’s two eyes, spaced evenly horizontally. They are towards the top of the first snowball. They are black and are pretty small. He has a carrot nose pointing downwards. It is orange and is a downward-facing isosceles triangle. It is not very big. Underneath his nose are four dots shaped so that they are my snowman’s mouth. They are arranged so that he is smiling. All of them are circular and are pretty small as well. 

My snowman’s second snowball is in the middle of the paper. The second snowball is bigger than the first but not too big. He has to round coal buttons (black) which are bigger than the eyes but still not too big. The buttons are evenly spaced throughout the second snowball, both horizontally and vertically. My snowman has two stick hands (brown) protruding from the second snowball. The stick part of it is not short but not long. He has three fingers. This applies for both stick arms.

The third snowball is toward the bottom of the paper. There are two coal buttons (black) in the third snowball. They are also both evenly spaced horizontally and vertically. That’s it for the third snowball 

He is standing on a flat black line. My snowman has a mini snowman next to him. It is the exact same as the other snowman but with smaller parts. The first snowball is towards the right of the big snowman. It is about as big as one of the buttons in the third snowball on the big snowman. He has tiny black eyes, a downward facing carrot nose, and four black pieces of circular coal to form a smiling mouth. The second snowball is bigger than the first snowball and has two pieces of black circular coal in/on it. This snowman has stick arms that are both not very long, but has red oven mitts for hands instead. The third snowball is bigger than the first two and there are two small but not tiny buttons on it

On both snowmen they have a top hat. It is as wide as their heads and as tall as two times their heads. The size of the top hat varies with the size of the snowman. In the middle of the top hat there is a yellow buckle. The strap thing is black and there is a yellow square in the middle holding the left strap and the right strap together.

In the background, there is a yellow circular sun in the top left hand corner that is as big as your hand. In the top right hand corner, there is a bullet train. The bullet train is as long as your index finger. It has seven windows evenly spaced apart. It is riding along one brown line/rail right below it. Below the first rail is another line/rail (brown). There is a green triangular mountain that starts from one edge of the paper and goes to the other. It starts from the middle of the left side, the peak is towards the upper left-ish, and it ends on the right side. The sides are green but the mountain isn’t green. There is a black squiggly line from the left side of the mountain to the right side. It starts from 5 cm from the peak on the left side and ends 5 cm from the peak on the right side. There are metal supporters that support the rails from the bullet trains. They are grey. They are 0.5 cm thick. They are evenly spaced from left to right. Their length depends on where they meet the mountain.

To the left of the snowman there is a tree. It is made of 3 green triangles stacked on top of a 1 cm brown stump. 

That is my picture you are done. YAY!

Kevin and Claire (6th grade) are old pro's with this game!  Look at this match!

My Snowman, by Tyler (6th grade)

My snowman is in the middle-right side of the drawing.  He is exactly 2 and a half inches tall.  The bottom ball, which is the biggest, has one button on the top of it and 2 small black boots on the bottom.  The middle ball is a little bit smaller and has the last 2 buttons on it.  Also he has 2 stick arms facing out of the middle ball with three fingers on each stick.  The top ball of the snowman is small and has 2 coal eyes, a pickle nose, 4 coal for a smile, and on top of it is a black top hat.

Background

To the right of him is a Christmas tree.  It is 4 and a half inches tall.  There is a sun in the top right of the paper from your perspective.  To the left of you there is a suburban house.  It is going off to the left of the paper.  The roof goes off to the left side of the paper and is skinny and it is colored blue. The door is just off to the left of the middle of the page. Right next to the door to the right side is a garage.  The borders on it are red but the garage door is brown.

Hope you like my Snowman.

Right down to the pickle nose, Ryan (4th grade) nailed all of these details!

My Snowman, by Carissa (4th grade)

My snowman has three main snowballs as the base. The biggest one is on the bottom, the 2nd biggest is on top of the biggest one, and lastly the smallest ball is on top of the 2nd biggest ball. It is sitting on plain white snow.

On top of the snowman's head is a halo crown. It is colored an orangy-yellow. In the middle  of the back, there is a red heart with a thin black cross leaning to the left. On both sides of the heart, there are one beat music notes. On the left the note is facing to the right, and on the right the note is facing on the left. Next, on the front part of the halo, there are math signs. On the very end on the left there is an addition sign, then moving to the right there’s the subtraction sign, next a multiplication sign, and last but not least an division sign at the end right of the halo. On the right side of the snowman’s head are four music notes. The first is just one beat, the second one is two. Then above the note with two beats is a one beat, but a staccato. Then below the staccato note there is a three beat note. 

For the face, there are two black circular eyes. Then in the center of the face, there is a petite carrot nose. It is pointing to the left. Just below the carrot nose is the mouth. It is made out of six little stone pebbles. My snowman also has a scarf that is a greenish blue that is wrapped around the bottom of the head, and has two little pieces of the scarf hanging out. 

On the middle snowball, there are three little red hearts going straight down the middle. On the sides there are medium sized twigs with three little sticks pointing outwards. 

On the bottom there is nothing.

There are two skinny trees on both sides. There is also a pattern on the bark on the tree. The one on the right is taller. They have tiny, weak branches coming out of the top. On the left there are 10 branches, and on the right there are 13. Floating in the air are 14 snowflakes. They have just four lines. There are 3 whites ones and 3 light blue on the right side. On the left side there are 8 light blue ones. 

What a creative and beautiful snowman, and what a thorough description!  Sammie (9th grade) was able to draw this match!

My Snowman, by James (5th grade)

     My snowman is made of three balls: one large ball, one medium, and one small.  My snowman takes up 2/3 of the page and sits on the bottom.  The paper is vertical.

     My top ball has black glasses.  It has one pupil per lens, and there are two lenses.  His mouth is a horizontal line.  It has two buck teeth right next to each other.  The head is entirely yellow, except for the yes, teeth, and lens.

    The middle ball has two green money symbol eyes.  His mouth is a black oval cut in half.  It is also yellow.

    The bottom ball has a small frown for its right eye, and an eye with a pupil in it.  It has the same mouth as the previous one with a tongue sticking out of its left corner.  

    There is a tree on your right that is a vertical brown line that goes up to the top of the middle ball.  It has diagonal green lines facing the bottom.  There is a crescent moon that is hello, and next to the right side of your name.  The sky is dark blue and only goes to the top of the top ball from the top of the paper.

James is a pro at this game!  He is so carefully detailed!  His partner Quinn (5th grade), had no problem drawing this twin.  I love the buck teeth!

Victoria's Snowman (5th grade)

     The floor goes straight, left to right.  There is a medium blue line down the middle.  To your left of the line, the floor is completely blue.  To your right, color the floor medium purple.

     My daddy snowman has a big, completely gray snowball at the bottom.  The bottom ball is on top of the horizontal line on the floor.  On top of the gray snowball, there is a long, medium-sized yellow triangle.  The triangle has medium sized arms with five twigs as hands on each arm.  The arm is brown, facing down sightly with two blue icicles on each arm.  

    The head of the daddy snowman is a small circle, entirely purple, with two small round circles in the middle of the face.  The small round circles are the eyes.  The eyes are white, with one black dot in each.  The snowman has a medium afro on his head.  The afro is bumpy, and shaped like a half circle.  It is rainbow colored horizontally.  The red starts on your left.  Instead of the last color of the rainbow (purple), it will be red.  The rainbow repeats only once.

    To the daddy snowman's left (your right), there is a miniature daddy, but with no afro.  His triangle middle is blue, and his face has a black outlined white face with two coal eyes and a small green triangle as a nose.  His arms are red and going up with only two twigs as fingers.  He has arm pit hair that's green.  The hair is curly and looks like broccoli.

    To the right of the daddy snowman (your left), there is a huge popsicle stick.  It is the size of your pinky.  The rest is a yellow popsicle top.  Horizontally down, there is a blue line that's zig zagging down.  To your left of the line, there are five red dots going down evenly spaced on an imaginary line.

    On top of that big popsicle is a small popsicle.  It's orange and has no zig zags or dots.

    There is a balloon hovering over the small snowman with a red outline and two red dots as eyes, with a big red smile spread over the face.  The balloon has a curvy gray string hanging down, the size of your pointer finger.

Wow!  Victoria didn't miss one detail!  Penelope (6th grade) was able to draw this match!

Ella's Snowman (5th grade)

    

    My snowman is happy and relaxed.  He is made of three snowballs: the bottom is large, the middle is a bit smaller than the bottom ball, and the top is smaller than the middle snowball.  He sits on a lounge chair near the pool.

    He has a bald head.  He wears pitch black sunglasses.  You can not see his coal eyes.  He has a small, pointy, orange carrot in between his sunglasses.  There are vertical lines in the carrot, and the carrot points to the bottom right corner.  Lastly, he has a big, bright smile made of five dot-like pieces of coal.

    He has a blank chest with twig arms sprouting out of his sides.  His arms stretch behind his head, making a V-like shape starting from the side of his head to the side of his middle snowball.  The middle snowball has part of the top covered behind the top ball.

    Like the middle snowball, the bottom ball is covered by the middle ball.  He has no pants, but he has twig legs.  The legs are bent and cross each other.  His feet have oval, yellow flip flops.

    In the background is an upright, bean-shaped pool. The pool has tiles around it.  The tiles are beige/peach.  The pool water is light blue, with a pink, donut-shaped float.  He sits on a green and pink lounge chair.  The pool is on the right side of the paper.  The lounge chair's top is on the left, and the bottom ends in the right.  Near the bottom left is a lemonade.  The lemonade is in a clear glass, and the glass if all of yellow lemonade.  There is a pink straw and a lemon on the bottom.  At the top of the glass are three ice cubes that are white.  In addition, at the bottom of the chair is a sunscreen bottle.  It is a squire type.  It is white and light blue.  It is labeled "2000 PF."  Last, at the top of the paper, are clouds and a sun.  The sun is at the top right.  It is a yellow ball with orange triangles surrounding it.  One cloud is near the top left of the paper.  It is puffy and fluffy.  The other cloud has part of its right side covered by the sun.

WOW!  What a cute, summer snowman!  Ella gave such perfect detail, and Clara (6th grade) read so carefully,  that the class voted them the winners!

My beginner authors played the game a little differently.  They drew a snowman, then described it with adjectives, too.  Their game was different in that it was a guessing game.  After I read each description, students were to point out which snowman fit the description.  A first-time guess meant the student aced the use of adjectives!  Our entire class loved Mika's (4th grade) cute art and very thorough description!

    My snowman is made up of three aqua snowballs, size small, medium, and big.  It has round and cute eyes.  Its nose is medium, pointing to the right.  It has six rocks for the mouth with a beautiful smile.  On the top of its head, it has a purple and orange pom pom hat.  My snowman has two big brown arms.  I love its clothing!  It's wearing three round black buttons.  The background has snow and 54 snowflakes.  I think my snowman is classic, like in the movies.

Congratulations to our winners!  I hope everyone enjoyed the lesson in the importance of ADJECTIVES!