Kindergarten Wild Things

We started this project by reading "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak.  From there, we analyzed the lines, shapes, patterns, colors, and size of the wild things.  We discussed how facial features could determine our wild thing's emotion.  The students then used pencil to draw out their wild thing on 18 x 24" drawing paper.  We went over our pencil lines with oil pastels.  Next, the students used tempera paint to paint their wild things.  We finished our projects by touching up our oil pastels.  The wild things were cut out and glued to a colored background.