A few years ago while visiting a fellow art teacher friend, she shared the Fuzzy Creature Game with me. I have been using it with my students ever since. I've had some people ask me how to play and figured it was time to write it all down someplace to share with others. When introducing the Fuzzy Creature game to my students, this is what I usually say: "Okay everyone, we are going to play the Fuzzy Creature game today. Has anyone ever played?" Usually, the response is no in my Art Intro classes. "Alright, this game is played with a partner. One person is the Fuzzy Creature and the other is the murderer." Pause for gasps and giggles. It gets them every time. I think this is my favorite part of sharing this game with new students. "Here is how you will play. The fuzzy creature will draw himself on the paper using a colored marker. I want to emphasize that this is a thinking game, not a drawing game. Don't spend five minutes drawing the perfect creature. After the fuzzy creature has been drawn on the paper, the murderer is going to attempt to kill it. For example, the murderer may draw a ten ton weight hanging over the head of the creature. Does the game end here? Oh no, we are just getting started. Now, the fuzzy creature needs to escape the attack and thus the game is rolling. This process of attacking and escaping will go on as long as you think creatively. You may not use the same attack or defense more than once. Both partners should use a different colored marker. Everyone will have a turn being both the creature and the murderer. Are you ready to play?" I then have students count off, one, two, one, two. All the "ones" will be the fuzzy creature. They come to take a piece of large paper then find their murderer. We play for about seven-ten minutes then I ask all of the murderers to stand. They now become a fuzzy creature, get a new piece of paper, and then find a new partner. We play for as long as we have time for, usually two or three rounds. I love the way students really get into it that it causes students to change to a different partner and thus break the ice with people they may be less familiar with. It also helps me get a feel for which students are going to struggle with idea generation. When students say that they've lost, I push them to think more creatively. My returning art students are always psyched to play the fuzzy creature game again at the beginning of the new school year. It is a lot of fun.
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D. Cook
9/10/2017 10:50:39 am
Tasty evil my savages will love playing this
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Erica
9/13/2017 09:48:57 pm
I love this idea. I'm going to try at the end of the semester or right before spring break. Thank you!
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AuthorMrs. Taborda is the studio art teacher at Oxford High School in Oxford, MA. This blog will document her journey as an educator and share the happenings of the OHS art room. Archives
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