Monster Madness!

The kindergartners had so much fun during this lesson! I began by reading the book If You’re A Monster and You Know It which they enjoyed very much doing the different actions and making different sounds. While reading the book I told them what the next action/sound was in advance and we participated in a practice round to ensure all the students could think of an action/sound or borrow from their friends prior to the actual song. After we created a monster drawing using a sharpie marker on a blank piece of paper. The students were very helpful during the drawing with their input resulting in a monster with eight horns, three eyes, ten legs, and a squiggly stomach. The next step was to spoon a small amount of the coloring (food coloring and water) onto the paper and then blow it around using a straw. This was a wonderful activity to do as some students became consumed in the drawing process, others became amazed when the colors mixed and created new colors before their eyes, and many showed their determination while blowing the colors around. Overall I recommend this activity to any and everyone. It could have been furthered by having the students explore how mixing colors resulted in different colors or by having students only draw one feature of the monster and then pass the paper on for another student to add a feature. Furthermore, these monsters could be utilized as a character to create a story with to connect to English language arts or the features could be counted to connect to math (many students were already informing me that they had drawn eight belly buttons, two fangs, four eyes and so on) and graphed.

 

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