The biggest legume ran to the bony tummy, or Exquisite corpses with kids.

I needed some help with my titles, so I asked the boys to make some exquisite corpses with me. To make it easier and more fun for them, I had them think of as many words as they could and separated them into three categories: adjectives, nouns and verbs. They came up with mostly nouns, so I had them finish some sentences for me, for example, "I am __," "The snake is __," "On the playground I __." Here's what we started with:



Then Zachary thought of more words, and we found some in newspapers and magazines:





We glued our found words onto three containers--adjectives on one, nouns on another, and verbs on the third, and added all of our cut-up words to the correct containers:



Our finished containers:



The rules of the game: Take turns choosing an adjective, noun, verb, adjective and noun. Write your words down, adding definite articles and prepositions when necessary.

Our exquisite corpses:

• The yellow poop danced with the furry celery.
• The nice window ran to the hungry door.
• The good newspaper shoved the bloody drawer.
• The content gelato tagged the bloody Russian masters.
• The crazy goldfish feasted on the loud butterfly.
• The strong underwear did a somersault over the special friend.
• The big celery fed the clean lunchbox.
• The excited crayon jumped on the scary tiger.
• The hungry diaper whined at the green bell.
• The soggy elephant danced with the harmful pea.
• The excited trumpet ate the wet door.
• The squishy monster farted on the bloody banana.
• The hungry baby did a somersault over the excited elephant.

At bedtime we read The Boy Who Loved Words, a book about a boy who collects words and records them on paper scraps.