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Classroom A: Jackie Baker (Edwardsburg, MI)

Edwardsburg Middle School

Monster Match

10/20/08

 

Our head contains a toothy blue crescent smile. The head is a dark black mysterious square shape. One light orange and one dark black balloon will help our bug-eyed monster see. Colorful strings of yarn hang from the back of his head as the hair. The hair is a variety of short and long lengths. Our monster has small ordinary yellow balloon ears. The unique nose is made up of a dark scary yarn that’s orange.

 

The base of the body looks like a giant milk carton. The body has two pink circular buttons on its front. It has a black pocket on the left side of his chest. The pocket is shaped like a V with a box on top of it. On the back of the body there is a multi-colored tail made of yarn. The tail is approximately three feet long and held up by a cup.

 

The legs and arms are tubes of newspaper stuffed with crumpled paper and wrapped with construction paper. The feet and hands are made of balloons. The balloons for the feet are dark blue with the legs being black. The arms are dark blue and the hands are orange balloons. Our monster is sitting.

 

Classroom B: Eduardo Acosta (Henderson Middle School, El Paso, TX)

Head

Cover a small box with orange paper

Glue two big, black cotton balls for the eyes

Glue a long, black balloon for the nose

Glue thick, black yarn for the eyebrows and mouth

Glue two plastic cups, covered with orange paper for the ears

Body

Cover a medium sized box with blue paper

Draw a large “H” in the center similar to the Superman logo

Place a small red balloon filled with red liquid in the center of the medium box

Arms

Cover four paper towel tubes with orange paper

Use two plastic surgical gloves for hands and color them with black marker

Attach the gloves to two of the paper towel tubes

Attach the other two tubes together with orange yarn

Legs

Cover four paper towel tubes with orange paper

Glue two of the tubes to the body

Attach the other two tubes with orange yarn

Feet

Cover two tissue boxes with black paper

Glue the tubes used for legs to the tissue boxes

Design the tissue boxes with Nike logos (Orange swooshes)

Wings and Tail

Construct two wings using black paper

Glue wings to the back of the body

Glue a long, black balloon to the back of the body