About This Lesson
What do you get when you add a giraffe’s head to a shark’s body and give it an ostrich’s legs? A GIRSHARKSTRITCH!
It's a CHIMERA straight out of the imagination of Nick Bruel, creator of the New York Times bestselling Bad Kitty series. It's also a super fun way to introduce a character from Greek mythology to your class or after-school club in UNDER 10 MINUTES! All you need is paper and something to draw with, and Nick will show your kiddos how to sketch a CHIMERA of their own.
Here's how it works: get your class to think of animal names and write them on scraps of paper. Drop them in a bowl & pull out three at random — first is the head, second the body, third the legs. Then draw — and as Nick points out, make sure your young artists sign their work!
Here’s what you will need to draw along with Nick:
- Paper 🗒️
- A marker, pen, or pencil 🖊️
- Crayons or color markers 🖍️
🐱 About the Books 🐱
🐱 Bad Kitty is bad. Very bad. But she doesn’t always mean to be. Whether she is trying to be a good little kitty and eat her vegetables or be a quiet little kitty and behave at a birthday party, it seems that trouble finds a way to her. Children will fall in love with Bad Kitty–and be roaring with laughter at all of her antics. Bad Kitty is a delightful picture book and an alphabetical romp through berserk cat behavior, and the follow up books are the perfect introduction to chapter books for young readers.
