It's a cute story about a kid who asks for a pet, but his parents won't let him get one (sounds vaguely familiar), until he asks for a "Snaggle Grollop". His parents agree that he can have a Snaggle Grollop since it's a make believe animal. The next day, much to his parents surprise, the boy brings his animal home.
After we read the story, I decided to have the kids draw pictures of their own make believe animals and name them.
They enjoyed creating a new creature and coming up with a silly name.
It ended up being a fun, easy little activity.
Very cute! I remember years ago when my two oldest made their own monsters with our craft supplies on construction paper, and Bella named hers "mommy". Nice. :-)
ReplyDeletelooks like a really cute book and a fun art project. :)
ReplyDeleteHeidi, Thanks for linking up with the Kid's Co-op last week. I will be featuring this post on tomorrow's link-up. Hope you'll join up again!
ReplyDeleteKate - Ha! You are definitely not a monster mommy. :)
ReplyDeleteKristina - Thanks for visiting!
Jamie - Thanks so much! :) I don't have anything to add to tomorrow's co-op. Bummer...better do some more fun things with the kids. ;)
What a great activity! A fun way to build on it another day would be to have the children write a story about their monster or fill in a fact sheet.
ReplyDeleteFor example:
My monster's name is _______.
He likes to _______.
He lives in _______.
He eats ______.
Etc.