Funny Monsters!

Halloween is almost here, so at today's storytime, we read books about monsters - the funny kind! We read The Great Monster Hunt by Norbert Landa and laughed at the "monster" that was sleeping under Duck's bed. In Five Ugly Monsters by Tedd Arnold, monsters kept jumping on the bed and falling off. Creepy Monsters, Sleepy Monsters by Jane Yolen tells how monsters go home and get ready for bed. And Go Away Green Monster! by Ed Emberley was pretty silly and didn't even scare us!

We also learned a song about a monster that goes like this:

If you ever see a monster,

A big ugly monster.

If you ever see a monster,

Here's what you do!

Make this face......

And this face.....

And this face.....

And this face.....

If you ever see a monster...

Be sure to shout...BOOOOO!!
(Sung to: "Did You Ever See A Lassie")

Then we made our own silly monsters. We colored on a flattened coffee filter with water-based markers, then sprayed a little water all over the coloring. The colors moved and mixed into each other and it sure made a funny face! Then we added eyes and mouth and other features. Some of us made five-eyed monsters! Don't they look funny?