Resources:
Watch the Wild Things March across your screen in the movie below.
Wild Thing March from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.
| Step-by-Step Wild Thing ppt I have a 30 slide step by step powerpoint with instructions, media, links, and animations that you can use to guide your students through each step of creating a wild thing with visual texture in the style of the creatures featured in the book. Use this link to download. Build a Wild Thing Game I made a game for the interactive whiteboard that allows students to drag and drop eyes, nose, mouth, and hands into a Wild Thing body to help them visualize solutions for their artwork. You can download the game from this link and use it when you install MimioStudio (free). |
Visual Texture Worksheet This worksheet is for students to invent and practice drawing the features of their wild thing's face and the visual texture that will cover it's body. Download the worksheet from this link |
To learn about visual texture (drawing something the way it would feel if you could touch it) is explained in this musical Fugleflick video created by first graders below.
Visual Texture from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.
Digital Warm Up:
Digital Extensions:
| To extend this lesson digital have student take a digital image of their finished work and speak through it using an app like iFunFace. They could describe their visual texture, say what makes them wild, or share a little known fact. |
Now that students made a book inspired piece of art, it would make sence they put that art back into a book with a bookmark. Students can use this template I made below to layer on their wildthing using the superimpose app. I purchased 2" by 8" bookmark sleeves that these can be printed and placed into for safe keeping. Here are the steps:
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