What Happens When the Girls Aren't Around

Boys' Night this Tuesday at our first of two No Girls Allowed workshops!  Our reading for the evening included Captain Underpants, Diary of A Wimpy Kid, Big Nate, and Shel Silverstein.

After talking about those very cool books and their very cool authors, we used our imaginations to envision our own superheroes.   After all, Dav Pilkey, author of the hugely popular Captain Underpants series, developed his wacky superhero while he still a kid.  We could be authors, too, and write stuff that other kids would like to read.  The only rule:  no copies of existing superheroes.  

We brainstormed on paper, considering what superpowers our superhero would have. How did he get those superpowers? Does he have a supervillain nemesis? After jotting down our preliminary ideas, we took to the Model Magic. We tried to mold with the Model Magic the superheroes we were seeing in our imaginations.

Sometimes we changed our minds about colors or superpowers.  It didn't matter.  It was a work in progress.  We could be as crazy as we wanted!

We could be as loud as we wanted! 

Look at some of our cool creations!    

But a superhero story is B-O-R-I-N-G if all your superhero does is sit there.  Nobody would want to read that book!   So, to get our minds thinking about action, we made some paper airplanes.

What do airplanes do?  They fly!  They shoot guns!  They drop water on stuff on fire!  People jump out of them!  All this action gave us ideas for plot for our own superhero adventures.

 

If you're a boy in elementary school, you can join us on Tuesday, July 10 for our second No Girls Allowed workshop!   If you missed the first one, it's ok!  Have your parent send us an email and we'll get you ready to roll.   Girls, your time is coming . . . it's all about GirlPower starting July 17.