Paint blot comparisons

To introduce comparison, the students and I read "Fog" by Carl Sandburg. We had a great discussion about how one thing can be/become another thing. Then, I made a few symmetrical paint blots to help the students discover their own "metaphor magic" to transform one thing into another. See their amazing poems:

Ms. Mitchell 5th grade
Week 11
01/22/08


Paint
Dylan M.

It looks like a face with
a rose on its nose. The
black looks like a baby
girl’s t-shirt. The two white
eyes look like eggs. If
you see it upside down,
it looks like a rocket
ship. The top looks like two
great green flowers about
to open. The bottom looks
like a foot ball players. It
looks like an elephant.



Green Paint
Sonia C.

The green paint creates a
fish. A green fish.
It stands still looking around
the ocean, blue and beautiful.
Then, moves on in the ocean.



Paint
Dymon G.

It looks like a lobster
with a trimmed tail.

It sits over looking like it’s
about to snip and snap.

With it’s furious face, saying
you want some, get some, because
I’ll make you wish you never
snapped and hurt me.

Also, with flaky skin, flakier
as you look down her tail.




Ms. Kennedy 5th grade
Week 11
01/22/08



I See
Eric M.

I see a boxing frog.
He got punched back.
He has his fists up
and his eyes closed.
He has blood out of his ears.
He has black feet
and black hands. He
is screaming for help.
He is hungry.
He has a broken leg.
He has red shorts.



Heart Broken
Michaela C.

It looks like two hearts
surrounded by a person who
is in love. But, his heart
is broken because the girl
doesn’t love him.



3 Paintings
Catterin G.

The paint is a little girls with red
hair, and on the edge of the red hair,
I see black hair.

I see a nose, red nose, 4 teeth,
red eyes, a black scale and skin.

I see 2 hearts that look like
claws, and an evil spider with
a green head.



Ms. Schaeffer 5th grade
Week 11
01/22/08



The Paint Splash
Dominique B.

It looks like a man doing yoga, or
an alien that’s red and came from Mars
with black armor. In the middle there
looks like a ghost. And it has blood
red hands and arms.



The Paint Splash
Ariel T.

The plain white paper turns
into a mutated man in a
space suit. It turns into a robot.
This plain white piece of paper
turns into a cactus or a man
with green eyes.
My last white piece of paper
is a bat, or a gorilla. Maybe
an airplane that is
red, green, and black put together.



The Paint Splash
Leslie M.

There was one time three little
paint splashes turned into a flower.
The other one turned into a
Christmas tree. The next day,
they turned into a human and
the other one turned into a spider.
The other one turned into an
eagle. Two days later, it was
an airplane.