Monster Draw!

 This Halloween-time game is always a favorite of my returning students!  Here's how you play:

Step 1:Each student draws a monster. They should include a background and many different colors to practice using adjectives in their writing.

Step 2: The students write a detailed desription on their monster.  Adjectives are crucial, for every single noun!  Size, shape, color, number.

Step 3: Students exchange written work and attempt to draw each other's monster with no talking or asking for clarification!

Winners are voted on by the class.  Congratulations to our winners below!

Momo's Monster (6th grade)

        My monster is basically a tomato trying to become a human. But first, I need to get some things straight. When I say to the left, I mean to YOUR LEFT. OK, hold up your left hand. That is YOUR left. Got it? So if I say place the arm on the left, I mean put the arm on your left side of the paper. OK, I should start. (By the way, I am using Mrs. Huff's colored pencils.)

        First, let's draw the body. Take a red-orange pencil, and draw a circle the size of your palm in the middle. DO NOT COLOR IT YET.

        Next, let's draw the eye. My monster only has one eye. So first look at the top of the circle you just drew. Then move one centimeter down and with an orange pencil, draw a circle one centimeter from the body's top. (I know I already said that). The circle should be the size of a cherry tomato. DO NOT COLOR IT YET. Now we will do the pupil. Take an aqua green or teal colored pencil and in the center of the orange circle, draw a circle the size of a little smaller than one button on your polo. COLOR THE TEAL CIRCLE IN. Okay, NOW you can color in the orange circle around the small teal circle. Now we need eyelashes. Take a purple colored pencil and draw 1/2 cm lines from the teal circle (like eyelashes, but not too long). Draw five eyelashes.

        After that, move on to the mouth. The smile is big compared to the eyes. Take the red orange pencil and draw a half circle smile. DO NOT COLOR IT IN. Now take a blue colored pencil and draw teeth on the top of the mouth; draw five spikes, or teeth. The teeth are triangles on the bottom of the mouth, the curved part. Also draw five teeth of the same size. Now, color the teeth blue, and in the white space inside color that space pink or blush rose.

        Now, I will move on to the arms. On both sides, right and left, draw a circle on the outside with the color magenta, and the size of a little bigger than the teal pupil. Color it in! Now draw two of them on each side. Basically duplicate what you just drew. Color both circles on each side. You should have four circles total, and two on each side, connecting.

        Move to the legs. 3/4 of a centimeter, draw a line down with tan. The size of the teal pupil, draw a red circle. Draw this on the bottom of the red orange body, and color it. Draw another tan line and draw a purple circle the size of the pupil, Then, no line and draw a green triangle under the circle. Color the leg circles in. Color in the body. Draw a sun on the top right and three U shaped birds in the top left. Draw a brown ground underneath and a top hat the same size of the eye on top of the monster.

Momo cracked me up on her first paragraph; I can't believe in this timed game situation she had the time to write all of this! She gives very explicit and clear directions, and 6th grader Chuyu only missed ONE thing! Can you spot it? 

(Who needs a hat anyway?!)

Aubrey's Monster (6th grade)

        My monster is a sphere with eyes, mouth, nose, ears, and hands. The body and head are morphed together into a ball, almost touching the edge of the paper. A big gigantic eyeball is placed towards the top with tiny nostrils like Voldemort's in the middle. Its mouth is open halfway into a smile, but a big wagging tongue droops out to its stomach. It has tiny blue hands on either sides, the same color as its pupil. The mouth is orange-red. The edges are lined with whiskers in a beautiful cyan. The hair on top is flat, but sticks out in the middle. To either side of his haircut are two wolf-like ears, white on the outside and blue fur on the inside. Its skin is light blue, along with its long, flat, and stubby feet. This creature lives on Planet Cheese where there are yellow holes in the ground. The sky is light green with even greener stars.

Wow! Aubrey wrote so clearly that Jojo (6th grade) could produce this practical twin!

Sara's Monster (6th grade)

        (Note: Read the whole thing, then draw.)

        Shape: My monster is a medium-sized verticle cream-colored marshmallow that is placed directly in the center of the page.

        Eye: My monster has one eye that is medium-big, and about the size of a gumball. Inside of the eye there are two small circles. One is placed close to the top left of the eye. The other one, which is slightly smaller, is placed close to the bottom right of the eye. The eye is green, and the small circles are white.

        Mouth: My monster's mouth is shaped as an upwards curve and is the same width as the eye. It is just made from a pencil (but black works also.) My monster's mouth has five small upwards triangle shaped pencil-colored teeth connected to the bottom of the mouth.

        On top of my monster is a medium-shaped top hat that is directly in the middle of the top of the marshmallow. On the tall part of the top hat, written in the middle in pencil, is the word "Halloween" in small letters that are all lower case except for the H. On the short horizontal shaped part of the top hat, in the middle is a small cnady corn. The candy corn has three sections. The bottom one is yellow, then orange, then white. The rest of the top hat is purple.

        The cheeks on my monster are small, pink, and placed on either side of the face.

        My monster also has two medium arms that look like snowmans' on either side of the body. Each of the arms have three stick fingers and the arm is stick shaped and pencil-colored. Its legs are also sticks about the size of an inch and are pencil-colored. Connected to the bottom of the legs are small candy corns that have the same color pattern as the top hat candy corn. They are on both legs.

        The background has dark green grass under the feet and RIP tombstones on either side of the marshmallow. On your left side is a crescent yellow moon, and on the right side horizontally across is a light blue cloud. The tombstones are gray and the RIP letters are uppercased in pencil.

Sara is such a detailed writer! With his careful reading, Grayson (6th grade) could produce this practically perfect match!

Kaia's Monster (6th grade)

        First, in the middle of the page, draw a medium size basic pumpkin. There are five different vertical sections of the pumpkin. The pumpkin has triangle eyes that have tips pointed up, and are both two binder paper lines long and wide. The eyes are colored in black. Then it has an open mouth in the shape of a half circle that is two lines tall and six lines wide. The mouth is fully colored black. The pumpkin has two stub arms that are colored black and are one line wide and three lines long. The pumpkin has two stub legs that have curved feet. The legs are one line wide and three lines long. The legs are black, and dangle from the pumpkin's body.

        Under the pumpkin there is a light green hill that starts at one bottom corner and goes to the bottom of the pumpkin, and goes to the other bottom corner.

        In your left top corner, there is a gray moon with lots of craters. The moon is four lines long and four lines wide.

        Beside the moon in themiddle top of the paper, there are three curly gusts of wind. They are all five lines long.

        Around the corners of the wind there are four gold stars with five points that are two lines long and wide.

        On top of the pumpkin, Snoopy lies as if it was his dog house. He has one eye showing which is closed, and one black ear flopped down on the pumpkin.

Wow! Such a cute picture to try to copy! Aria (6th grade) did a super job with this!

Ryder's Monster (6th grade)

        My monster has a big circle head with a team beanie and blue party hat with a small Canadian flag on top. He has a yellow face with a small blue vertical rectangle for a nose and very small spiral eyes. He has a horizontal rectangle split into eight parts for a mouth. The beanie has scribbles.

        He has no neck and square shoulders with a Canadian flag on the upper left shoulder and one in the middle. He is all purple. There is a big gray mountain and a yellow moon with ten big craters. It is on the upper right of the paper.

The size of the flags are different, but still a super accurate attempt by Lincoln! (5th grade)