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Monsters Among Us

Monsters Among Us

Posted on April 21, 2024,
Black Hills Children's Home

Children at BHCH’s Owen School finished a monstrous project recently!


Gillian Spiva, Owen School Art Teacher, shared that each student made a monster habitat, a monster and a monster ID card. These monsters could be alien or creature-like. The ID cards help humans understand what the monsters do or where they come from.

“We started with pinch pots out of air-dry clay,” Gillian wrote. “The students used scoring and slipping to attach clay eyes, arms, tongues and tails.”

When the monsters were complete, Gillian set up a gallery in the art room and gave tickets to students so they could view the show.


“They did an amazing job!” she wrote. “They loved making their own monsters as well as reading about everyone else’s.”