This year I decided to have more fun. I already mentioned that I have more free choice options this year for students who finish early. (Blocks, Legos, pattern makers, connectagons, etc.) I'm also trying to use more fun half day or one day mini projects. Last week I did a Lego building challenge that was awesome. This week I had one rotation to fill for 2nd grade before a student teacher started with them. I introduced the Movie Mash-Up drawing prompt. Hilarity ensued.
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| Fashionable Toilet - The Teen Years. Two thumbs way up! |
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| That baby is so loud in outer space. I'd see that movie just to find out how. |
This is super cool! I have heard of similar activities where students roll dice and the corresponding number is a key to some shape or thing they have to draw to create a monster. That might be good for some math connections too! Have you ever heard of the activity The Exquisite Corpse? It is where one student draws the head, the next draws the torso, and the last finishes with the legs. They come out really wacky!
ReplyDeleteI've seen the dice drawing game, but I haven't used it as of yet. I like how this prompt leaves room for unlimited creativity. I've done Exquisite Corpse before and it's hilarious. I might need to break that out again!
ReplyDeleteI just did exquisite corpse as a warm up for a surrealism unit, what a coincidence! I've also done something similar to your movie titles called "adjective adjective noun" where kids generate a bunch of adj. and nouns, throw them in labeled bins and then pick two adjectives and one noun and illustrate. You could also make it into a product that needs a website instead of a movie!
ReplyDeleteWayne Thiebaud makes a good one day lesson on form, too. What fun! There's always the classic draw it cut it paste it back together cubist bit.