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Paper Critters - JR Fabito Grades 3 to 8

Paper Critters helps you create various styles of small creatures using body templates, art tools, and accessories. Paper Critters is a creative site that can be pulled into many classroom activities. Students can create people, animals or robots, to name a few.

The gallery, coined The Colony, should be previewed by a teacher for appropriate content. This site requires Flash. You can get it from the TeachersFirst Toolbox page.
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In the Classroom:
Designs can become intricate and detailed, so consider setting guidelines if completing during class time. Students can create "creatures" with adaptations, describe them in written form and justify the adaptations in accordance with a science unit. Create or present critters on an interactive whiteboard or projector while discussing features. Critters can be designed as writing prompts, to create story characters, or to represent famous people for book reports. Try creating a class pet for everyone to take care of! Have students save their critters by placing their initials somewhere in the critter name and then download them to a class file or e-mail them to a teacher account. Work together with the art teacher to support curriculum concepts in this creative endeavor!

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