Year 3 Monsters: sculpture and digital design worksheet

“Friendly or Scary Monsters” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 3 art unit “Monsters: sculpture and digital design”, for children aged 7 to 8, and takes about 24 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 4 to 8 of the year, 6 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Friendly or Scary Monsters

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 3 · Art & design · about 24 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can explain how the features of a monster can make it look friendly or scary.

A Look back3 min

1.
Mixing yellow and blue paint makes which colour? Circle one.
greenorangepurplebrown
2.
This tone ladder has 5 steps, from light to dark. Which step is the darkest? Write its number.
3.
Shade this shape in pencil. Make one half light and the other half dark.

B Watch me, then you4 min

Two monsters have the same round body. Monster A has black scales and sharp teeth. Monster B has yellow fur and a wide smile.

Watch me

Monster A has black scales and sharp teeth, so it looks scary.

Monster B has yellow fur and a wide smile, so it looks friendly.

The body is the same. The features change the feeling.

Now you

1.
Monster C has pink skin and big round eyes. Does it look friendly or scary? Circle one.
friendlyscary
2.
Monster D has grey skin, a dark mouth and sharp claws. Does it look friendly or scary? Circle one.
friendlyscary

C Your turn7 min

Read about each monster and decide if it looks friendly or scary. Then go on to the next row.

1.
Monster E has bright yellow fur, big round eyes and a wide smile. Does it look friendly or scary? Circle one.
friendlyscary
2.
Monster E keeps its yellow fur but now has narrow red eyes and sharp teeth. Does it look friendly or scary? Circle one.
friendlyscary
3.
Sort these features into the two columns. Write each one under the right heading.
sharp teethbig round eyeswide smilenarrow red eyes
Usually looks friendly Usually looks scary
4.
Look at Monster D above. Change one feature so it looks friendly. Write what you changed.

Say it out loud: What changed between the first two rows? Did the feeling change too?

D Spot the mistake3 min

A round, smiling made-up monster with big yellow eyes and a soft purple body

Kit says: “Every monster in every film is evil, so a monster can never look friendly.”

1.
Write one reason why Kit is wrong.

E Think deeper5 min

A winding hedge maze seen from above, with paths and dead ends

1.
The Minotaur is a monster from a Greek myth. It lived in a maze. Draw your own maze monster in the box. Write how its features make it look friendly or scary.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Friendly or Scary Monsters · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. green If they choose orange, they may be thinking of red and yellow. Mixing yellow and blue makes green.

2. 5 If they pick the lightest step, ask them to find the darkest end of the ladder and count from there.

3. Look for: A clear light half and dark half, shaded with the pencil. If both halves look the same, ask them to press hard on one half and lightly on the other.

B

1. friendly If they say scary, ask which feature is big and round. Big round eyes usually make a face look kind.

2. scary If they say friendly, ask them to point to the sharp claws and say what sharp things make people feel.

C

1. friendly

2. scary If they say friendly, point to the narrow red eyes and sharp teeth and ask how those features make them feel.

3. Usually looks scary: sharp teeth, narrow red eyes · Usually looks friendly: big round eyes, wide smile

4. Look for: One named feature changed to something friendly, such as a smile, round eyes or softer colours.

D

1. Look for: Says some monsters are friendly, funny or misunderstood, or that features like smiles and round eyes make a monster look kind. If they agree with Kit, ask them to name a friendly monster from a book or story they know, then ask which features it has.

E

1. Look for: A drawing of a monster plus at least one named feature and a sentence saying whether it looks friendly or scary.

Words to use

Say“Which features make this monster look friendly, and which make it look scary? What would you change to flip it?”

Instead of“Monsters are always scary, aren't they?”

After the sheet

Draw a face on paper with a pencil. Make it friendly, then change only the eyes or mouth and make it scary. Show someone at home and ask which one they prefer.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

5 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Build a Monster Design(with a plan)
Plan Your Monster Story(with a plan)
Make a clay monster(with a plan)
Make your monster move(with a plan)
Review and fix your film(with a plan)

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