Monster Names

A spruced-up way for your kid to write a name

ADDED February 16, 2009

Welcome to Variation Week here at Today is Fun.  What's Variation Week?  Well, this week we'd like to live by the famous old saying:  if something's fun and educational once, why not do again a little different?  

Okay, okay.  We haven't heard that saying before either.  In fact, we just made it up.  But the fact still remains:  it is a good idea to vary something good and to come up with more good things!  Each of our ideas this week will provide an opportunity for you and your kids to have fun with variations.  

Last week was full of Valentines and love.  Great.  Now let's change it up a bit.  It's time for monsters.

Take out a sheet of paper.  Write your child's name in large, thick letters across it.

Now pass the paper over to your kid, and say, "Turn your name into a monster."

Your young artist will have to somehow take the lines and shapes made by the letters and use them as parts of a monster.  The letters will need to become mouths, eyes, paws, tails, scales, spikes, etc.

(In our house, we have boys who happen to like monsters.  If your child is interested in something else, by all means let them express this with their name-art today.  Names could be turned into gardens, pets, firefighters, princesses or whatever!)

Once the name has been creatively transformed into a monster, do some variations.  Change the name into a different monster or a fancy house or into a completely different thing altogether!

The final step is to hang the art up on the wall or the fridge and admire!  Variation!

--S

ages 3-12, art supplies needed, good at home, rainy day fun,

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