Submitted by: Nancy Tompkins, an art teacher at St. Luke’s School in New York City.

Objectives:

• To use student’s drawing skills, imagination, and senses of humor!

Vocabulary:

• Adjective: An adjective modifies a noun or a pronoun by describing, identifying, or quantifying words. An adjective usually precedes the noun or the pronoun which it modifies. (ie: a blue truck; a happy baby; a sneaky bird)
• Noun: A noun is a word used to name a person, animal, place, thing, and abstract idea.

What You Need:

• pencil
• paper
• coloring tools (optional)
• list of adjectives (provided by teacher)
• list of nouns (provided by teacher)

What You Do:

1. I started out by cutting up many little strips of paper.

2. On one pile of paper strips I wrote adjectives, and on another, nouns (I made the words simpler or more sophisticated according to the age group.)

3. I put the strips facedown into two separate boxes.

4. Each student took two strips from the adjective box and one from the noun box.

5. They then had to do a drawing of what the words meant when put together.

   For example:

   • “Intelligent skinny poodle”
   • “Bratty angelic snowman”
   • “Friendly messy pencil”
   • “Tiny wiggly office building”
   • etc.

6. The trick is to think about adjectives that are easy to portray.

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