unknownfate

Wanna hear the cutest name ever given to a toilet paper tube octopus with cheerios for eyes?

Octopus Prime.

We did letter O the other day and for letter O we made the octopi out of the tubes (it's totally easy, they get to paint the tube whatever color they want, then snip strips halfway up the tube and curl them around a pencil to be the legs and just to emphasize O, we glued cheerios on for the eyes and mouth.) and one thing I usually do when we make an animal or really anything with a face is to ask what its name will be.

Octopus Prime may well be the best octopus name ever given by a four year old to an art project. I love it.

So, back in the fall I read The Tailypo to the Red Room kids and they loved it. The story is pretty vague about what the tailypo actually looks like. There is mention of the tail, of course, and near the end there is talk of pointy ears and round eyes. We knew that it could talk when it wanted and it probably had claws what with all the scratching at the walls and door and windows. So we talked about other animals with markings... some cows had spots, some were all one color, some cats had stripes, or spots or were all one color, zebras, tigers, pandas, otters and owls all had different markings, so what color would a tailypo have. We talked about the environment of the story and how it took place in the Appalachians which were a deciduous forest region and what kind of camouflage an animal that had never been seen would need to have.

Then, they drew what they thought it might look like. If you see any multicolored raccoons, whatever you do, don't cut off their tails!