The other day, I took some index cards and started drawing heads on them. Then I held them up and said, "Who wants to add a body to this one?" Several hands would go up, I would hand it off and bodies would get drawn on new cards.
Pretty soon other kids started drawing heads and then offering them up - "Who wants this one?" - the other kids would go, "Me, me!!" Cards were flying across the table. Parts got added. They got combined every which way.
Now we have a deck of creature cards. Someone even gathered them up in a neat stack and put them in a box. I think next we'll either color them, or mix them around and add more. Or both. And, I just know there's a game in here somewhere.
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We play a game version of this that gets pretty silly. Everyone sits in a circle and you each draw a head on the top of 8.5 x 11 paper, then fold the paper over so you can just see where the neck begins and hand it to the person on your right. They draw the neck and middle part of the critter, fold it over just at the beginning of the legs and hand it to the right again. The next person finishes the legs. They get opened one by one so you can share with everyone. We once did this in a younger kids writing group and followed up with naming the critters and telling stories about them.
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