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Grade: 3-5

Age: 8-11

Activity Summary:

Objectives:

• Give students the opportunity to create using their imaginations and creativity.
• Students must visually express an emotion or feeling through drawing and color.

What You Need:

• Sheets of 12x18 inch white and black construction paper.
• Pencils
• Construction paper
• Crayons, markers, etc.

What You Do:

• I usually start the lesson by telling a scary story. I shut off all the lights and have the students close their eyes. I tell a fictional story of a night when I was little:
  • As I went to sleep I heard strange noises coming from my closet... In fright I threw the covers over my head and as I did I heard the closet door open. Whatever was in my closet was now in my room and I could hear its footsteps getting closer to my bed. The "thing" then touched my covers and...

• I then end the story by turning on the lights and I have my students open their eyes.

• On the sheet of black paper I have the students create, using pencil, the monster they thought about as I told the story.

• They are to pretend that the black sheet is the opened closet with the monster inside.

• Students are to make sure the monster is as tall as the sheet of paper and as wide.

• As a class we make a list of things that we might think would give us clues to whether their monster was scary, silly, sad, or happy.

• I also create a monster in the front of the room as an example using ideas from the list. Students then use the generated list to begin creating their own drawings.

• Once the drawings are completed students are to color them in with construction paper crayons and outline with white.

• After the monsters are finished the students are to create a door for their closet using white paper. Students are to decorate the white paper to look like a door.

• They can draw posters, pictures, and recessed panels to make the door look more realistic.

• Students outline their drawings then color them in using crayon or marker.

• Finally the teacher places the door on the monster, staples one end for a hinge and glues a pom-pom on the door for a door knob.

• Students can then tell their own stories, open the door and be spooked.

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Recommended Products:

EduCraft Sand Monster (pk/24) Everyone will enjoy creating these imaginative sand creatures. Fill clear plastic bottles with 5 assorted colors of sand and decorate with provided trims including wiggly eyes, feathers, pompons and chenille stems. Seal with a cork when complete. Kit includes everything you need including non-toxic glue and a FREE EduCraft® Guide with instructions. 1-1/4" x 4-1/2". Pack of 24.

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