The 2010 Global Monster Project

This year we participated in the Global Monster Project.

The Monster Project is when classes from all around the world collaborate with each other to describe a monster.

We had to come up with a description for the ears.
Some descriptions weren't on the website, so we got to make them up ourselves.

All three of our Year 2 classes joined together to make our monster.
The parts that our class got were the body, toe nails, legs, feet, toes, cane, jet ski, ears, digital camera and the tongue.

The 'body group' had a HUGE and messy job making the body out of paper mache.

We had to think creatively to decide how we could make the translucent toes and the 9ft/3 metre long legs.

For the translucent toe we used cling wrap, and for the legs we used air con tubes.

The digital camera was an easy job. Noah and Jack had totally different interpretations of the description. Jack had the mud and the gum smothered it all over the camera, but Noah had it in blobs. They had to negotiate and agree on a design that included both of their ideas.

The Jet Ski was a really fun job. It required a lot of team work, because the original jet ski wasn't big enough for the monster so the group had to problem solve to make a bigger jet ski.

All of this year's 'monsters' can be viewed on the Monster Project website . We knew that each class would interpret the monster descriptions differently but we were still amazed at how no two monsters are alike. 

We'd like to congratulate Mrs Beagley's Grade 5 class in South Africa for their winning  monster, Tokoloshi-Afrika. You can read about how they made their wonderful monster on their blog.

We had an amazing time participating in the Monster Project. Our room was a mess for weeks but it was buzzing with activity as we collaborated and problem solved to create our monster. We didn't want it to end and hope we can participate again next year!