The Monkey and the Ice Skates/Tissues (feat. Paul Scheer)
Illustration by Camilla Franklin
The story “Tissues” is based on a poem by an 8-year-old named Noah from Massachusetts. Writing a poem is fun because you can get extremely weird and creative about how you use words. In this week’s bonus activity, creators can write their own poems and describe something in an unexpected way.
Listen to the episode then scroll down for Creator Club exclusive activities!
Our incredible designer, Camilla Franklin, illustrates one of the stories from each podcast episode. This week, we wanted to provide Creator Club members with a coloring activity based on her illustration for "Tissues!" Hopefully, this will provide a fun bonus activity for your creators to enjoy while listening to the episode!
Beautiful Trash
The story “Tissues” is based on a poem by an 8-year-old named Noah from Massachusetts (Click the picture of the original poem to view the full-size image). Writing a poem is fun because you can get extremely weird and creative about how you use words. In Noah's poem, there is a character (a tissue) who loves something that most people find gross: the trash! As Noah wrote: "I want to be in the beautiful trash."
"Beautiful trash!" That's the kind of unexpected word combo that poems were made for! In this week's activity, creators can write their own poems and describe something in an unexpected way.
Grownups, scroll down to share your creators’ poems via the form below!