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What a fun day! I always have fun in schools, but today just seemed to be a delight from start to finish. Wonderful kids, fun stories. And drawings I'm very pleased with.
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The four ingredients: a snake in a Target store looking for his mom up aginast a frog
The story: first of all, I try to avoid having names of stores and products in my drawings. So I started drawing this picture of a snake who lost his mom in a store. He couldn't see, so he climbed in a cart. Then his friend, a frog, decided to push him with a giant leap.
So, when I drew the store-worker pig running away, I thought of a way to work in the store name without it being a name! Pretty slick, huh?
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The four ingredients: a mechanic-firefighter in a wizard's workshop who wants a car with a silly sidekick of a monkey
The story: our hero is trying to put together a dragonmobile for his wizard master. His sidekick, the monkey, wants to help, so he grabs a monkey wrench (of course!) and starts to monkey around with the levers.
This one ignites the turbo drive, sending flames shooting out the back. The boy grabs the only liquid available: the wizard's cauldron. Spilling on the car, it magically makes it able to fly!
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The Workshop Stories
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In this story, we have a chubby toucan who wants to impress a girl toucan by saving her. But he's lazy and actually has all his dangerous tasks done by his pet elephant. When a tiger kidnaps the girl bird, he comes up with a plan.
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How's it work? Well, he drops a talking coconut -- yup, a talking coconut -- down by the tiger. The crazy nut just goes on and on about nothing until the tiger lets go of the bird to cover his ears.
Then in swoops our hero bird -- on the trunk of his faithful elephant helper!
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I had to make this picture of my drawing bigger so you can see the face on our sniffing hero.
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He's a wizard-chef-in-training. Though he's bad at remembering recipes, he can tell what is the right spell by smelling. He also wants to impress a girl (the Wheel of Fiction was in a love mood) so he's trying to get a great grade on this potion.
What he doesn't know is that a rival boy has put a new ingredient in, one that changes the teacher into a pig when he samples it! Why didn't the spell smeller know? He has a bad cold!
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Finally, here is a story about a guy who shrinks down to a few inches high. He wants to get back to normal, but the only way is to find a certain mushroom for the magical creature that lives in his garden.
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But to get the mushroom, he must first get past the Attack Slug that is guarding it!
I loved the idea that he gets around by hitching rides on sneakers, riding them like horses and holding the "reins" of the shoelaces!
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So, thanks to all who made this such a great day -- the PTO for sponsoring it, Mrs. Dell, who watched over all the details, the teachers who were so enthusiastic, and especially the Ketler students, who were so full of fantastic ideas.
Let this be just the start to your story-making kids! Your ideas are just too cool to keep hidden inside you!
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While you're here, have fun exploring all the fun things I've posted!
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In addition to all the free material on this site, I have downloadable books that are perfect for keeping kids writing in school or at home!
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The Adventures of Pirate Dog
Picture prompts are a great way to inspire kids to write! Here are 26 of my best drawings with fun, pre-writing worksheets
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Write Your Own
Cartoons!
Kids can add the
dialogue and their special touches to my funny comic strips filled with wacky characters!
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Sparks: Year One
Here’s a fantastic resource for teachers: a whole year of weekly creative writing lessons built around wacky holidays!
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with Bruce Van Patter
