Monsters Hiding Under Beds and in Closets!

Week Five: Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday Classes

Monsters Hiding Under Beds!

Igga Bigga, Hunka Bunka, Dinka Danka Doo!!!

Feeling a little nostalgic since my ghosts, goblins and good witch are trick or treating far from home, I pulled out a couple of my family’s favorite Halloween stories and poems to use for our project this week. Using card stock, I sketched the bottom of a bedpost. Underneath the bed I drew the outline of monsters in different shapes and sizes for the kids to fill in with markers as they conjured up their creepy creatures for a sleepover.  The results were silly, scary, and spectacularly spooky!

Wednesday Boys

 What’s in your room…and CLOSET????!!!!

With the projects we have done over the past couple of weeks, I offered a little “ANTI- IT”…some real Halloween suspense. Instead of Pennywise…I offered Poe.

I suggested real horror existed in the prose of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” “The Cask of Amontillado” and finally, “The Raven”….Nevermore…nevermore!

The boys were given a sketch of a bedroom with a bed, nightstand, frames and a closet that is slightly open. I asked them to fill in the details of the room to reflect their room and interests. Then, add a creepy visitor entering from the direction of the closet. The claws, teeth, fur, eyes were all up to them! I loved how specific and detailed they got in presenting their own version of horror!

Things to remember: Use colors that compliment each other. I encouraged them to use colors that were not too similar (blues with greens, reds with oranges) instead, use colors that will make the combinations buzz (green and red or pink, orange with blue)

When trying to fill in a larger area with maker, stay in one direction and use the edge of the marker, the wider side to fill it in.

Also….if  you’re afraid at night….

IGGA BIGGA, HUNKA BUNKA, DINKA DANKA DOO!!!!!