Color Monster

Description: This lesson was taught to us by Addison and Maggie and to start out this lesson we listened to an audio book called The Color Monster by Anna Llenas. Then we wrote down four characteristics of a monster on a piece of paper and passed it to the person on the left of us. Once we received the piece of paper with the four characteristics, we drew a practice picture of a monster incorporating the four characteristics that were on the piece of paper that we got. The characteristics that I had to include in my drawing was sharp teeth, horns, two eyes, and it had to be hairy. When we had an idea of how we wanted to incorporate the different characteristics and what we wanted the monster to look like on the scratch paper, I took a big piece of paper and drew my monster on it. We also had to incorporate three different textures into our drawings as well as pick the color of the monster and what it stands for. In my monster I traced the outline of it with a black oil pastel and then I colored in the arms, legs, and face with a black marker. I colored in the horns using a black marker and I drew the eyes using a black sharpie. To make my monster hairy I took tissue paper and lined the body with it to help it seem like the monster had hair on it. Once I had completed drawing and coloring my monster, I had to come up with a name for it and write four sentences including what his name is, some of the characteristics that he has, what color he is and what that color stands for, and finally what he likes to do in his free time when he was not scaring people. 

Extension Activity: The students can create a monster character map that helps expand the different characteristics of the monster that they created. They can further elaborate on activities that their monster was in, the monsters' job, how the monster grew up and more. Then the students can write a short story describing their monster from when they were young all of the way until now.