Game in Japanese

Monster Drawing Game

Target Grade:1-4
Target English: Body Parts, Numbers, Colours

After you have taught the song"Heads and Shoulders" (Heads and shoulders knees and toes, knees and toes etc.) or the Body Building Game and the colours then try this game.

Each child has a blank piece of paper and lots of colouring pens. You then describe a monster that the kids have to draw. For example you say "This Monster has 3 RED HEADS" then perhaps "This Monster has 5 PURPLE EYES".

It calms the kids down! If some of them don't seem so keen then tell them they are designing a new Pocket Monster!!! They'll be interested then!!!!

For example......

1. This Monster has 2 blue heads	2. This Monster has 1 red head.	3. This Monster has 8 purple eyes.
4. This Monster has 3 green mouths.	5. This Monster has yellow hair	6. This Monster has 4 red arms.

This kids come up with some pretty funky designs!!

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Readers' Comments
by MC
To make this class more advanced try introducing shapes (Triangle, square etc.) and getting students to draw their monsters using these shapes. How about a square head? Or star mouth?
 

Readers' Comments
by Muriah Summer

I played a variation of this game with 2nd graders that worked really well. Instead of me calling out what they should draw, I made three piles of cards- numbers, colors, and body parts- and had a volunteer student come up to the front to draw cards and tell the class what they should draw. I found that the students really wanted to volunteer to be the speaker, so much that I had them play rock, paper, scissors for it. And the students who didn't feel comfortable speaking still had a good time with the drawing part of the game. I'd recommend it for 2nd grade and above- my 1st graders wouldn't be up to it, I don't think.



Readers' Comments

I run a French club for Early Years children at a primary school in England. We have 25 children between the ages of 4.5 years and 6 years. This was a huge success - the children loved drawing their monsters. We used numbered dice to determine the many body parts & colour dice to choose the colour. We're looking forward to trying out some of the other games!
Thanks for all the great ideas!

 Carolyn

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