Activity: Create Feeling: Creature Feature

Objective:

to build an object

Materials:

	1	scissors	for prep
	1	hole puncher	for prep
	1	box of crayons	per learner
	6	brass fasteners (brads)	per learner

Supporting Media:

• Totetude Creature Feature [Adobe Portable Document Format, 52.7 KB]
• Totetude Feeling Create 1 [JPEG Image, 1.3 MB]
• Totetude Feeling Create 2 [JPEG Image, 1.13 MB]
• Totetude If You're Happy And You Know It Song [Adobe Portable Document Format, 16.6 KB]

Prep:

• Gather Materials.
• Print a Totetude Creature Feature (per learner).
• Pre-cut and hole punch each Totetude Creature Feature.
• Create a demo Totetude Creature Feature (optional).

Instructions:

1. Educator sings the Totetude song "If Your Happy and You Know It" with learners.
2. Educator explains that learners will make a face by first coloring the face, eyebrows, eyes, nose, and mouth.  Educator can call out a body part and have the learners hold their paper up.
3. The educator also explains that learners will fasten their body parts onto the face with fasteners.  The educator should demonstrate how to fasten the body parts onto the face.
4. Once the learners have colored and fastened their face together, the educator will call out a feeling and the learners will create the expression on their Totetude Creature Feature.

Extension:

• Learners can add yarn for hair or cut out a hat from scrap paper.

Reflections:

• I am able to construct a face.
• I am able to fasten with a brass fastener.
• I am able to color within boundaries of a drawing.