My Lil’ Cthulhu
Korean life September 11th. 2008, 10:00pm
My Lil’ Cthulhu
In my Kindergarten part-time classes, I got to do construction paper art. I love doing construction paper art. I made the entire cast of Homestar Runner for one of my previous school’s walls. Today, I had to make something with two different classes.
The students had never done anything with construction paper before. First we went through the different colors of paper, then we talked about scissor safety. The students told me what they were planning on making, then tried to cut out something vaguely in that shape.
In my first class the students were at a lost for what to do. I made an elaborate fish with a multicolored rainbow tail. One boy made a snowman, the other a bird. A girl also made a fish like mine, except she made fins that poked out in the third dimension. Awesome.
I had a break to think about what I wanted to make with the older students. I decided to make My Lil’ Cthuhlu as a fun, but not scary, monster. The students in the second class of girls liked to make things for a princess, so they were making crowns they could wear. I set about making my monster, and they would cut out gems and measure their heads. There weren’t enough scissors, so we had to share. It was a lot of fun, and I’m really happy with the results, but truth be told it could have been more complete if there was a little more time. I put it up on the wall and snapped a picture to share it with the Internet.
Coming home to eat lunch, I ran into the teacher that will eventually replace me in the mornings. He saw the picture I took on my camera, and he loved it. He said he’d keep it up in class as long as he could! Yes!
The students said it was a funny, cute monster, and that they liked it. My friend, who plays D&D with me, was enthusiastic and supportive of My Lil’ Cthulhu. The Korean teaching staff liked my earlier fish a lot more than my madness inducing monster.
At least I made it friendly and cute. The last thing I wanted was an illithid in my class. Now that would be terrifying.
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