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Oct 30, 10:00 AM CT

Classroom A: Jennifer Bloch (KISD-Brookhaven)

Mrs. Bloch’s Class Monster

Materials:

3 sheets of black construction paper 1 piece of red construction paper

1 piece of dark red construction paper 4 Styrofoam small cups

A box that is 11 ½” long, 9” wide and 6” deep red crayon

4 clear plastic cups paper plate

scissors glue blue construction paper green yarn

Legs: Take 2 clear plastic cups and glue them bottom to bottom. Do the same with the other 2 clear plastic cups. You should now have 2 legs. Put a 2” wide band of black construction paper around where the cups are glued together. These will stand up underneath the body.

Body: Take the box and stand it upright. Glue black construction to cover the box on all sides. Cut the bottom of each Styrofoam cup off in a zigzag pattern around the bottom of the cup. Glue each cup top rim to the middle of the wide side of the box in a vertical line to create a spine. Color each Styrofoam cup red with red crayon. In the top of the box, cut a 3 ½” X 1” hole in the center. Take the box and place it on top of the legs with the hole on the top.

Head: Cut a piece of red construction paper in an oval to be 12” long and 10” wide. Glue it to a paper plate. Take half a piece of black construction paper and roll it horizontally and glue it long ways to the back of the paper plate to make a neck. A second roll may be added for stability if needed. Insert the bottom of the neck 1” into the slot cut in the middle of the body. Glue it to stay.

Face: Glue a 3 ½” piece of green yarn to the top of the middle of the large red oval on the opposite end from the neck. Cut 2 - 4½” crescent shaped pieces of blue construction paper. Place one crescent shaped eye under the green yarn and 1½” inward from the edge of the oval. Do the same on the other side of the oval for the other eye. In the middle of the two crescent shapes, put a 2½” long blue diamond. Cut out a 3½” X 2” right triangle using dark red construction paper. Place it in the center of the oval to be used as a nose. Cut 2- 4½” strips of dark red construction paper out. On one side of the construction paper, cut 6 jagged triangle teeth. Do the same for the other piece. Put the two jagged sides facing each other and glue the two pieces ½” from the bottom of the oval.

Classroom B: Angela Sayers (KISD-East Ward)

Monster description goes here

Materials

Construction paper: green, white, light blue, orange, black

Yarn: multi-color (the type that fades from one color into another)

Pink balloons-3

Cups-1 red silo, 2 Dixie

Paper plate-1 small w/ design

Glue

Ruler

Scissors

2 very large shoe box or a couple shoe boxes to put together as one

HEAD

Cover a 16 inch long by 14 inch high by 5 inch deep shoe box with pink butcher paper as if you were wrapping a present. (We used a shoe box for boots) The face will be one of the largest sides.

Cut 12 pieces of colored string and glue the ends one next to another in the middle of a green piece of construction paper cut into a rectangle measuring 7inches by 4 inches. The yarn should fall over one of the long sides of the rectangle.

Glue the green rectangle on the top, in the middle of the shoe box, with the short side of the rectangle facing the front and back of the head.

Cut 1 piece of white construction paper into a square with sides measuring 11 inches.

Cut 1 piece of light blue construction paper into a square measuring 5 inches by inches.

Ball up the white paper square of and the light blue square of paper, place the light blue paper inside the middle of the white paper to form the eyeball.

Glue the eye onto the front of the box, at the top, in the middle.

Glue 2 Dixie (bathroom size) cups to the side of the box in the middle for the ears. Use a black marker to color over any design on the outside of the cup.

Glue the side of one Silo drinking cup (red) to the front of the monster’s head, 1 inch under the eyeball. Cut 1 hole in the back of the cup near the rim just big enough to push the rolled end of a pink balloon into. Cut another hole in the front and push 2 pink balloons through the same hole.

Cut 15 rectangles out of black construction paper measuring ½ inch by 3 inches. For each piece, fold one end about 1 inch over so that it looks like an L. Glue the bottom of the “L” around the inside lip of the cup.

Fold one 7 ½ inch diameter paper plate with a design on it (preferably animals) in half. Cut black construction paper into the shape of a rhombus about the size of the blue plastic/wood tangram shapes. Make 32 of these. Fold them in half to form 2 triangles and glue one side of the triangle to the inside rim of the folded paper plate. Place half on the top and half on the bottom, in 2 rows. The rows should not look like an array of 16.

BODY

Either use a box that measures 24 inches wide by 15 inches high and 8 inches deep, or glue a few shoe boxes together. Color box green (we used green paint, but you could cover with green paper).

Cut leaf shapes out of a dark green construction paper and use chalk to make leaf markings. Glue these on the front of the box (the side with the largest face) spaced out.

Cut about 20 pieces of tan colored yarn about 4 inches long. Pull the yarn apart so it has a shredded look. Glue these between the leaves spread out.

Place the box so that the long side is on top, place the head on the top.

ARMS and LEGS

For the legs, have each student trace one foot (their choice) on an orange piece of paper and cut it out, glue them one next to the other around the bottom of the body. (We had 16 students in our class)

For the arms, have half of the students trace their left hand, and half of the students trace their right hand on orange paper. Poke a small hole in the palm of each hand. Cut 2 pieces of yarn each measuring 48 inches. Weave one piece of yarn through each of the left hands, and weave the other piece of yarn through the right. Glue one end to each side of the monster. Glue the last hand on each string somewhere on the body to make a funny pose. Be ready to tell us why you placed the hands there!