Ink monsters

Last week we created monsters, animals and plants inspired by Stefan Bucher’s Monster a Day website and book. The results were super cool, and the kids loved the project – it fit in nicely with the overall theme this month of drawing and finding inspiration in all sorts of places, and our larger goal of fostering creativity. Older students were asked to create entire back stories and lives for their characters, which also turned out really well. The only downside to the project (basically, drop ink on a paper, blast it with the compressed air and ask students to come up with a drawing that incorporates that ink blot) was discovering that those compressed air cans get cold enough to cause frost bite if used for hours on end…

Check out the results below!