Wild Things and Monster Crafts and Learning Activities for Children
Monster Puzzle Piece Craft
 What you will need:
Puzzle pieces, Blank Puzzles Pieces or Larger Puzzle Pieces , googly eyes, acrylic paint, permanent markers, magnet or pin, feathers, and glue.
What to do:
1. Paint the puzzle pieces with acrylic paints or color them with permanent markers.
If you use markers that aren't permanent markers draw on the side that doesn't have the shiny coating. The markers will stick better without rubbing off.
2. When the paint dries glue on googly eyes and f eathers.
3. Use a permanent marker to draw in the mouth.
4. Glue a pin or magnet to the back of the piece to make a refrigerator magnet, or glue or tape a pin to the back to make a brooch, or punch tiny holes and add a string to make a necklace.
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Wild Things - Little Monster Cup Craft
 What you will need:
9-oz. paper cups of different colors, tape, glue, colored paper, fake fur, feather boas, or feathers, black permanent marker, and scissors.
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How to make the cup craft:
1. Draw monster or wild thing faces, arms, and feet onto colored paper, or use white paper and then color them with colored pencils, and then cut them out. (Patterns for this craft are available to members of Danielle's Place.)
2. To make the bottom cup fit inside the top cup cut slits about one inch apart all around the top of one cup about one inch deep. Fold in the top of the cup where you made the slits. Place another cup over the cut cup so that it is upside down. (See picture to the left.) Draw a line down the center of the bottom cup to make it look like two separate legs.
3. Glue the head, arms, and feet onto the cups.
4. To finish glue feathers, pieces of feather boa, or fake fur to the heads.
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Wild Things Treat Cup
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What you will need:
 9-oz. paper cups of different colors, tape, glue, colored paper, fake fur, feather boas, or feathers, black permanent marker, and scissors.
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How to make the cup craft:
1. Draw monster or wild thing faces, arms, and feet onto colored paper, or use white paper and then color them with colored pencils and cut them out. Patterns for this craft are available to members of Danielle's Place.
2. Glue the head, arms, and feet onto the cups.
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"Where the Wild Things Are" Movie Discussion Questions
1. Why do you think Max didn't go and find his own friends to play in his igloo at the beginning of the story?
2. Did Max give any indications of why he might not have friends at the beginning of the story? He had a hard time controlling himself, examples, jumping on the furniture, picking on the bigger kids.
3. At the beginning of the story we see a globe in Max's room that says, "To Max, Owner of the World, Love, Dad." And later Max's mom is with a boyfriend. Where do you think Max's dad might be?
4. Why do you think Max's sister didn't do anything when her friends smashed Max's igloo? What would you have done if you were Max's sister? |
 
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5. Why do you think that Max destroyed the heart that he had made for his sister, Claire?
6. What would your mom do if you had made the same mess in your sister's room?
7. Do you think it made Max feel good to destroy the gift? What should he have done instead?
8. How did Max's mom show he loved him? Even though she had a lot of work to do and she could lose her job if she didn't finish her work, she took the time to listen to him and type his story.
9. Why do you think Max told the story about the vampire that lost all his teeth and no one would be his friend anymore because he couldn't be a vampire anymore?
10. Max teacher said, "The sun will die like all things; it is just fuel burning ferociously. I'm sure by that time the human race will have fallen to any number of calamities, war, pollution, global warming, earthquakes, meteors, etc." How do you think that made Max feel?
11. How do you think Max felt when his mom wouldn't play with him because she was spending time with her boyfriend?
12. Why do you think Max put on his wolf suit and acted angry and disobedient? Do you think he did it before? Why do you think his mother said Max was out of control? Why would Max say it wasn't his fault? Who do you think he was referring to when he said, "I hate you."?
13. Why was Carol acting wild and breaking houses? Wild Thing - Because KW had left.
14. Why do you think Carol said, "No one wants to be on my side. Fine, I'll be on my own side, by myself."
15. Why did Max start destroying the Wild Thing's homes?
16. When Emil the Chicken stops Max and says, "Hey, what are you doing?" Max replies, "I'm just helping?" Emil then asks, "By smashing our houses? We worked very hard on these and then you, sir, start, "helping." Do you think Max realized that he was destroying someone's home?
17. How was Max being selfish? - He didn't consider how other people would feel if he destroyed their homes.
18. Max makes up a big story about being a king. Do you think he was lying? Is it good to lie in some situations?
19. When Max was asked if he could make everything right, he answered, "yes". He also agreed that he could get rid of loneliness and keep out all the sadness? The wild things believed he was going to make them happy. Why do you think Max said that?
20. What do you think Judith meant when she said, "But happy isn't always the best way to be happy."
21. Douglas the chicken was sad because he thought no one paid attention to him. Do you ever feel that way?
22. What things in Max's dream were taken from real life?
Max is looking at a toy boat - Max sails in a boat in his dream.
Max has a ball made of twisted twigs or something else near his bead - The wild things live in homes that look like balls of twigs.
Carol is breaking up houses because KW left - Max messed up his sister's room because she left and didn't help.
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Wild Thing Bookmark and Wild Thing Pompom Bird Craft Kids Can Make
What You Will Need To Make the Wild Thing Bird:
Craft Foam - for the wings
Striped Pipe Cleaners from Discount School Supply
Bright Plush Pom Poms from Hobby Lobby
Small Googly Eyes
Low Temp Mini Glue Gun
Scissors
What You Will Need To Make the Bookmark:
Animal Print Tissue Paper - From Hobby Lobby
Scotch Heavy Duty Packaging Tape
Yarn, ribbon, or floss
 Aleene's Tacky Glue
Hole Punch
How to Make the Wild Thing Bird:
1. To make the Bird's legs and claws cut a striped pipe cleaner in half and bend one end of each half into bird claws. (See Diagram)
2. Glue the pipe cleaner legs onto the medium-sized pompom with a low temperature glue gun or tacky glue.
3. Cut wing shapes and a beak from craft foam and glue them to the pom pom.
4. To finish glue on googly eyes.
How to Make the Wild Thing Bookmark:
1. Cut bookmark shapes 2" by 5" from card stock or cardboard.
2. Cut 1/2" by 2 1/2" strips from the animal print tissue paper and glue them to the bookmark. Don't worry about the edges of the strips not fitting on the book mark. .
4. When the glue is dry cut off any paper that hangs over the edge of the bookmark to make it straight.
5. Cover the back and front with clear packaging tape.
6. To finish punch a hole in the top of the bookmark. Fold a 12" piece of yarn, ribbon, or floss in half and insert the folded end into the hole in the bookmark pulling it through about one inch. Bring the other end of the folded ribbon or yarn over and insert it through the folded, looped end that is in the bookmark. Pull it through the loop until it is tight.
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