All About Adjectives and Alliteration

Learn letter sounds using the sense of touch as various textures are captured with crayon rubbings and arranged into alliterative pictures.

• 1.

  Brainstorm a list of words to describe textures. For each adjective, think of things you could find that would demonstrate that texture.

• 2.

  Remove the wrappers from Crayola® Crayons. Take your crayons and construction paper on a texture hunt. Place your paper on top of flat textural materials, such as leaves, floor mats, sandpaper, screens, or bricks. Rub over the paper with the side of a crayon. Capture lots of different surfaces in several different colors.

• 3.

  For each rubbing choose an appropriate texture adjective. Think of a few objects or places that start with the same beginning sound (alliteration) as the texture adjective, such as a Dandelion Dimpled Door or Ridged Roof. See a dictionary for ideas.

• 4.

  Turn your rubbings into the shapes of these items by cutting around them with Crayola Scissors. Mount your rubbing on contrasting colored construction paper with a Crayola Washable Glue Stick. Write your creative new names below each image with Crayola Markers.

Benefits

• Children explore, collect, and organize adjectives used to describe textures.
• Children make crayon rubbings with a variety of surface textures.
• Children combine texture adjectives, their art, and alliteration to portray imaginative new places or objects.

Adaptations

• Collect several textures in one color to make a texture matching game. Cut 2 same-sized squares from each rubbing. Label the back sides of the squares with the same letter of the alphabet so matches can be checked. Scramble the texture squares, displaying
• Collect textures at home with family members. Use rubbings as collage materials to make a picture of your house. Describe it using texture adjectives and alliteration.
• For even more challenge, combine color and texture words with crayon rubbings of objects, such as Bumpy Blue Basket.