HIT:WILD THING MONSTER IDEAS FOR KINDER

[Laurie Thelen <laurie_thelen@HOTMAIL.COM>]

OK...Here is a hit on the monster craft ideas for "Where the Wild Things
Are." I hope I did this alright...first time! Thanks for all the great
ideas. I thought of another book to use: "Monster Mama."

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When I was in the public library we had the kids make their own wild thing
from a large brown paper grocery bag.  Then they could wear them and hold
their own wild rumpus.

Cindy Dobrez, Librarian
Harbor Lights School
West Ottawa Public Schools
Holland, MI 49424
dobrez@novagate.com

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How about making monster feet out of shoeboxes? Long toenails sticking
out--fur made from fringed construction paper, tie on with yarn or
rubber bands, or shoe strings--then raise a rumpus stompin' up  storm.

Nancy Lieber
Lower School Library/Media Specialist
University School of Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
Nlieber@execpc.com  or Nlieber@usm.k12.wi.us

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Maybe it's too simple but I usually have my kinders draw their own "wild
thing"
Carol Harma, Thurston Elem, Springfield, OR charma@efn.org

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I like to do the story "Go Away, Big Green Monster."
The "after" activity is a monster collage. I give the kids a paper with a
basic "head" outline and simple eyes, and let them make a monster collage
using scrap construction paper (taken from near the paper cutter), markers,
crayons, etc. etc.
The kids love it, but it *is* messy if you use the scrap papers. It seems
more fun too!

Carin Barwick
LMS Geneseo Elementary
Geneseo, NY
Bookpusher@aol.com

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What about using the cheapy white paper plates to make monster masks?
You could use yarn or narrow elastic to tie them on the kiddies' heads.

My PreK students did that several years ago and they really looked
cute..and not so scary!

Diane Averett/Librarian
Kerr-Vance Academy
Henderson,NC

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I have always read this story with the younger children and tried many
projects.  The one that I like the best is the most fun, BUT time consuming.
In advance, I cut up all kinds of monster face pieces (eyes, noses, mouths,
etc)in all different colors and place them in the middle of the table.  I
give each child a paper plate and a bottle of glue and let them make their
own wild thing mask- they love it!

Jenn Landy- Elementary
Pennsbury, Fallsington, PA
jennlandy@aol.com

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From: Gayle Hodur <ghodur@redshift.com :
My students LOVE Ed Emberley's Go Away Big Green Monster. It is great for
teaching descriptive words. Each page involves a cut out section and the
monster's face grows as it is described and then disappears as he tells it
to go away. Each description has a color, a describing word, and a facial
part, such as purple curly hair.

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Have you seen the book "No Such Thing as Monsters?" It is my new favorite
picture book.  A little monster lives under the little boy's bed, and while
the boy complains to his nonbelieving mother about the monster, the monster
is telling his mother about the boy that lives over his bed.  His mother of
course says "There's no such thing as boys. Go to sleep."  In the end the
little ones turn the tables on their mothers.  It's great fun and non
threatening.

Caroline Busbee
Media Specialist, ECS
Idlewood Elementary
Tucker, GA. 30084
(770) 939-2996
busbeec@dcss.dekalb.k12.ga.us
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     When I read Where the Wild Things Are, I show them how Sendak has
made wild things combining parts from different animals. e.g. Head of a
buffalo, striped shirt like a child might wear, feet of a chicken.  We look
at lots of the illustrations and try to figure out  of what kind of animal
each part reminds us .  Then I give them each a piece of 8 1/2 X 11 paper
that I have folded into thirds (as folding a letter for a long envelope)  I
ask them to design their own "wild thing" with the head above the top fold,
the body within the middle section, and the legs/feet in the bottom section.
  I tell them to have them together so there aren't andy "floating heads."
        When they have all handed them in, I staple or bind the left side of
the papers into a booklet with covers  and THEN cut through the folds on
each sheet, but leave the covers whole to hold it all together.  DON'T cut
before they are bound and stapled or you will have lots of little pieces.
It makes a flip book that they will think is wonderful.  Send that book to
the classroom or keep it as part of the library collection.  They will flip
through it to see "their" head on all the other bodies, etc.  If you have
enough time, they could draw a different "wild thing " on the back of their
sheet so that both the front and the back of each page will make a new
combination. Just make sure the back "head" is on the same end as the front
"head".  Have fun!

Jeanine Gordon, Librarian
jgordon@csn.net
Sabin Elementary School
Denver Public Schools

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