Reflective Journal 7 - Overcoming the Monster
The National Curriculum (DfE, 2014) requires pupils to study a wide range of texts, including myths and legends. These types of stories are home to some of the most well known monsters and creatures, including: Medusa, Hydra, Cerberus, Minotaur and Centaur.
Evans (2015) observes that monsters are a necessary tool as children attempt to navigate their way through challenging periods of their life.
How can we use this knowledge to help our pupils create their own monsters?
The Asian Art Museum suggests using animal templates that pupils can mix and match, and work together to create their own mythical inspired monsters and creatures:
This activity will provide a scaffold for pupils of all abilities - those who find it easy to be creative can explore using different colours and adding additional features, and other pupils can simply experiment with mixing and matching the different animals.
This activity is a great starting point to get pupils discussing their monsters. Teachers need to support this by questioning, for example:
What attributes does your monster have?
What are its special powers?
Where does it live?
What does it eat?
What is it scared of?
What does it sound like?
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