BEWARE: Create-A-Monster Sparks Creativity!

Create-A-Monster is wonderfully, wacky, wild fun!  The team at Just Fun has launched an iPad app that will spark creativity and bring your children hours of fun and unlimited possibilities!

Basically, this art app allows children (or parents!!) to create, manipulate and personalize their own monster. There is a great tutorial that takes you through all of the various features, such as how to rotate and scale various body parts.  Upon finishing their creations, kids can share their monsters with the world via email, Facebook or Twitter.  Aimed at grade school age children and up, Create-A-Monster provides wholesome entertainment while igniting the imagination.  It has entertained our five-year old on up to, well, me!  

As a homeschooling parent and educator, this app would serve as a great sounding board to a creative writing unit or as an activity to illustrate the mathematical concept of symmetry.  I have included suggestions on how to incorporate “monsters” in your learning environment.

Lesson Ideas:

• Math:
  • Have children create symmetrical monsters to add a fun twist to this geometric  concept. Save their masterpieces and create a digital presentation using  Google Docs, Animoto, or Glogster.

• Language Arts:
  • Creative writing:
    • Really get the creative juices flowing by using your students’ monsters as a story starters.  Then, publish their stories using Google Docs or on your class wiki.
    • Create a  fake Facebook or Twitter profile to correspond to your monster.
  • Descriptive writing:
  • Begin by creating your own monster.  Then, try to describe your monster in great detail using lots and lots of adjectives and excruciating detail!  Pair up with a friend and see how well you can recreate each other’s monsters.  Not only is this a great exercise in descriptive writing, but also in developing observation skills necessary for scientific inquiry.

BEWARE: You are headed for MONSTER size fun!

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