Monster Project 2026  
  Our 2026 Focus Contimnues with - Sustainable Development Goals!  
Students in 2025 voted Random Things - 
Instituto Beneficente Casa Amarela do Brasil as Top Monster.

Global Monster Project
Meet diverse educator colleagues around the world while
collaborating, sharing local culture, and using geographic resources.


Collaborate with other schools and Focus on the SDG Goals


Our Monster uses STEM to meet the SDGs.
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.



Join the Project and Collaborate on a Monster!  
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Many Educators have been in our ongoing project Community 
 for over 10 years. New-comers of all backgrounds are always Welcome!

Try the National Geographic Interactive MapMaker as your students 
learn where other Monster makers are located around the world.

   This project is promoted by National Geographic Education Global Collaborative Projects

     The Big chart below will fill as schools choose their parts to design and describe.

 

Greetings Global Classrooms! Everyone is Welcome!
Hello from your project leader at Monster Central, Terry Smith. Here we go again. I am the Director of the international  Kidlink Project, and I've been an online instructor and Mentor/Group leader with the National Geographic Educator Certification Program, and a past teacher educator. Besides fun with monsters my background includes university teaching at Radford University, Western Illinois University, Antioch University, and the University of St. Francis. Before the college kids,  I was an elementary teacher for 14 years, concentrating on project-based learning, citizen science, technology, and global awareness. I even took my 4th graders to Taiwan, twice!  

What is this Project?  
Primary classes from the USA and around the world collaborate in this K-6 project. After requesting a Monster part (one part per school) from the list below, each school submits a 12-20 word description. When all descriptions are completed on the chart below, each class builds its own MONSTER using everyone's descriptions. Collaboration across grade levels: we often have cross-grade buddy teams, for example, K and 4 working together.

Students discover that
designing and building a monster together is a challenging task. It is a major lesson in working together and learning to compromise in a group decision process. For example, the student responsible for the head has to plan with the students making the eyes, nose, neck, mouth, ears and hair. Students have deliberate practice in collaboration while constructing their class MONSTER. The result is satisfying proof that a community of global kids can accomplish anything!!  Additionally, students are asked to state how their monster would use STEM and the Sustainable Development Goals to make the world a better place.

Standards? We address many academic areas - please see the Learning & Technology link for examples. It's easy to see how this project is firmly rooted in collaborative worldwide learning.

How Do I Sign Up My Class? (Sign up early to make sure you get a part!)
Your Class has joined and reserved a place in the project when the teacher (1) Requests a Monster part AND (2) Sends the class photo and school/class information. This needs to be done when you join the project in order to get you on the Participants Page and to secure your Monster part. NOTE: when a teachers selects a part, that part belongs to your school. That way, if other teachers from the same school join, they all have that same part. In that case, classes will need to collaborate on the 12-word description. BUT all classes can build their own Monsters!

Email to join - smithterryk@gmail.com.
See the Step by Step Timeline of Directions.

 


             "I am beautiful!"

Sample Description

HEAD: circular, black, red dots,  blue triangles, 
diameter 18 inches

Please use 12-20 expressive, creepy, cool, adjectives. Be sure to give size, shape, and color!
Cm or Inches?

 

 

USING SKILLS

Kids at Work

MONSTER PARTS - CAN YOU SAY THE WORD SYNTHESIS?
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See More Example Descriptions from a Past Project]

 
TIP: To build the Monster, copy & print the parts list, cut out each part, and 
assign to a student or group of students to construct. 

  Use 12-20 words in your Description
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1. Head - Jessica Charvat's grade 3 and 4 students in Ms. Jessica's Monster Making lunch club at Ras Tanura Elementary School in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.-- 1 meter long, spiky, dark red, skull-shaped head with a brain falling out and spider webs. 

2. Eyes - Sol Delgado's mixed grade class of students ages 5-9. We’re from Tandil, Argentina. The name of our English school is ICI Instituto de Inglés Tandil. - The eyelashes are purple tentacles. One eye has a rectangular-shaped pupil, another eye has a triangular-shaped pupil, and the third eye has a heart-shaped pupil with an arrow through it.

3. Ears & Earrings - Kendra Miller, Corey Lostetter , and Jacque Humeniuk - K-5 gifted teachers at Matt Elementary in Cumming, Georgia, USA. -- Ears: Left: 24" x 12", yellow, bumpy, oval shaped, with dirt trailing out. Right: 12" x 24", blue, smooth, heart shaped, colorful flowers trailing out. Earrings: Toothbrush and Toothpaste

4. Mouth & Lips - Duygu Ergen at 27 Aralık Lions Secondary School is a small school located in Ankara, the capital of Turkiye. The school has approximately 450 students, ages 10-14. Huge frightening open mouth. The mouth is very big and 8 inches wide. It looks like a dark deep hole. You can not see the end of it. The lips are 2 inches thick, dark red and wrinkled. 

5. Eyebrows - Dave Morrill, mixed age students at the Phoenix School in Salem, Massachusetts. - 1-foot-long spiky, furry green eyebrows with orange-purple stripes, shiny gold rhombuses, yellow spiders, lime-green goo, and dangling snakes.

6. Teeth  - Ms. Baden’s mixed grade class from Lake Asbury Elementary School located in Green Cove Springs, Florida.- 6 black and green teeth with bits of food stuck in them.

7. Nose & Nose Ring - Tracy McIntyre: Two 6th grade STEM classes, Swansboro Middle School, Swansboro, North Carolina. - arge long bright pink nose with pimple looking green spots. The nose is 4 cm tall and 7 cm sticking out. The nose ring is a gold 5cm long bull ring with long curly hairs and hot pink colored worms with neon yellow eyes (2cm long) coming out the nose.

8. Tongue - Mrs. Schaffer, Mrs. Aldrich, Miss Ackerman, Mrs. Darling and Mrs. Caudill with 2nd and 6th grade combos! Buckeye Central Elementary in New Washington, Ohio. - - Soft, human-like tongue shaped that is 36 inches long and 6 inches wide with one red, blue, and purple stripe.

9. Hair - Heather Sigurdson and five grade 1 classes. Royal Oak School in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. - 60 cm long, spaghetti like, sparkly, rainbow with curls, stripes, polka dots, hearts, snakes, spiders, bugs, and a giant bow.

10. Horns - Karen Latz, 4th grade, Cathedral of St. Raymond School, Joliet, Illinois. - There will be 3 horns shaped like paint brushes (tear-drop shape at the top),2 horns are 18" tall and 3 inches wide, purple with green scales, they are bumpy and covered with spiders, 1 horn is 12" tall and 3 inches wide, it is green with purple scales with worms and skeletons on it..All three horns are splatter painted with orange and red.

11. Necklace - Ms. Dung Abeka Homeschool
Location: 213 Quang Trung, Eakar, Dak Lak, Vietnam
Students: A mixed-age group from 8 to 14 years old. - A hand-forged leather and blackened steel choker featuring a claw-like central pendant with a dark heartstone and twelve spikes. Size: 45 cm. Pristine condition.

12. Body -  Julie Schoenherr and Kate Barbknecht's 3rd graders, River Trail School. Gurnee, IL -- 77cm tall, 59 cm wide rectangular prism with black/yellow zig-zags, lots of small, shiny pink and white dots.

13. Belt - Use your Imagination!

14. Belly Button - Use your Imagination!

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15. Arms - Veterans Elementary in Hannibal, Missouri: Mrs. Greening (5th grade), Mrs. Arch (5th grade), Mrs. Wisdom (5th grade), Mrs. Hendricksmeyer (5th grade), Mrs. Anrango (4th grade), Mrs. Reynolds (4th grade), and Mrs. Bonsee (4th grade). -- 4 arms, 5ft long, cylinder shaped, moldy, hairy, blue and purple heart and star pattern, purple.

16. Legs - Tatjana Štefanac and Vojislav Krstić , English and Art, 5th and 6th graders. Primary School Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj, Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia 
Legs: 5 thin, sparkling, green. 20 cm long. With yellow leaves.

17. Hands & Fingers - Aleksandra Zupok, Grade 4, Polish language teacher, Zespół Szkolno-Przedszkolny nr 5 (School and Kindergarten Complex No. 5) primary school in Tychy, Poland. - gray, flexible, floor-length, hands with 5 fingers in rubber gloves, fingers with long nails (nail tips).

18. Feet - Teacher Kiki Xynta. My school is Global Land Foreign Languages Kiki Xynta in Skydra, Greece. --  Its enormous feet are purple, swollen, hairy and it has long twisted toes. the big toe has a sharp black claw that scratches the ground as it walks. There are cracks all over.

19. Toes & Toe Nails - Tracy McIntyre: Two 6th grade STEM classes, Swansboro Middle School, Swansboro, North Carolina. - The toes are triangle shape with a red brown color they are 6 centimeters. The toenails are shaped like pickles with a pink blue color they are 4 centimeters.

20. Tail - Melissa Ransom, 3rd Grade combined classes from Brown County Elementary School, Mt. Sterling, Illinois. - 5 feet or 60 inches long, furry, spikey, curly, 1 big black 4 inch spike on the end, purple-blue-yellow space like colors, whip like action, white polka dots, glittery hearts, sparkly.

21. Left Elbow - Use your Imagination! 22. Right Elbow - Use your Imagination!
23. Passport - Use your Imagination! 24. Driver's license - Use your Imagination!
25. Cookbook - Use your Imagination! 26. Wings - Garret Ferguson's 4th grade at Lafayette Regional School in Franconia, New Hampshire. A pair of black bat wings. A jet pack sits on top of the wings. The jet pack is made of two giant rocket boosters shaped like ketchup & mustard bottles; a giant hot dog sits in the middle of the jet pack. Ketchup, mustard, and your favorite topping are splattered everywhere.
27. Pet Bat - Mrs. Dairsow, Carlos Rey Elementary, gifted/talented Grades 3rd-5th, Albuquerque, New Mexico. - three feet long, six inch eyebrows, french tip nails, yellow bulging eyes, sharp teeth, black furry wings with mold, big lips. 28. Cup of Tea - Use your Imagination!
29.  Favorite Book - Sol Delgado's mixed grade class of students ages 5-9. We’re from Tandil, Argentina. 30. Skateboard - Melissa Ransom, 3rd Grade combined classes from Brown County Elementary School, Mt. Sterling, Illinois. - 36 inches long, skinny oval, black and orange on bottom, teal on top, pink and green sphere wheels, glittery spikes, fire breathing red monster on bottom, pink hearts, butterflies and yellow smiley faces on top>, turquoise hearts, gold stars, purple flowers.
31. Toothbrush  - Sol Delgado's mixed grade class of students ages 5-9. We’re from Tandil, Argentina. - 40 cm long, dark, red toothbrush, 5 cm wide, but 10 cm wide on top. Dark brown 5 cm worms like hair, with light brown and black toothpaste on top. 32. Smart Phone - Sara McDermott, Lower School Tech/STEM Teacher at The Branch School in Houston, TX. Signing up her 4th grade technology class. - Shaped like a banana,1 foot high by 6 inches wide at the widest point, 2 inches thick. It is in a cheetah print case. Visible on the touch screen is a home screen photo of a football, and apps overlap the photo. There are stars and sparkles decorating the case. 

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Link to Past Monster Project Name & Votes Lists

NOTICE: Students will each vote for the monster that best fits the descriptions in the big chart. 
 

Student Evaluation of 2025


 Random Things - Bahia, Brazil
Instituto Beneficente Casa Amarela do Brasil

Past TOP Monsters

Random Things - Brazil '25
BOB! Gurnee, Illinois '24
Sir Smellsalot the Swissinator '23 (NH)
Grouchy Granny's Rainbow Toenail Clippings '22 (NH)
Trashcan Bob (Canada) & Whatchamacallit '21 (NH)
In the 2020 Pandemic - we did not vote.
Ghostly McSpooky 2019 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Giganticorous BillyBob Taco 2018 (New Hampshire)
Mr. Bestname 2017 (Argentina)
Mr. Wotzizname 2016 (Burneside,England)    
Bobby Wasabi 2015 (New Jersey)
  Hogzilla Chuck Norris Duck Ape 2014 (Missouri)
  Quawawa 2013 (Illinois)
  Master Flykenstien2012 (New Hampshire)
  Fiesta Foo Foo Dragon Dude 2011 (New Hampshire)
  Tokoloshi-Afrika 2010 (South Africa)
  Wee Nit Wit 2009 (New Hampshire)

  Chucky 2008 (Connecticut) 
  Bilbatauri Nussa Chauri 2007 (Pakistan)
  Boo Hoo the Foo 2006 (Virginia)
  Bling Monster-G 2005 (England)
  Devil of Doom 2004 (New York)

 
Big Daddy 2003 (Missouri)
  Mean Green Star Machine 2002 (Texas)
  Cuckamunga 2001 (New York)
  Double-Decker-Bushmonster 2000 (S. Africa)
  Frankenspots 1999 (Texas)

Link to Past Monster Project Name Lists

Monster Votes for 2026
All class votes will appear here at the end of the project.


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