Draw a Descriptive/Comparative/Superlative Picture
Choose characters
Pick one of the sets below, or make up your own set. Draw how you think each character in the set should look:
- cheap sheep/cheaper sheeper/cheapest sheepest
- near dear/nearer dearer/nearest dearest
- fat bat/fatter batter/fattest battest
- fat cat/fatter catter/fattest cattest
- flat rat/flatter ratter/flattest rattest
- weak squeek/weaker squeeker/weakest squeekest
- bony pony/bonier ponier/boniest poniest
- fat rat/fatter ratter/fattest rattest
- wide bride/wider brider/widest bridest
- sad dad/sadder dadder/saddest daddest
- scary fairy/scarier fairier/scariest fairiest
- grand band/grander bander/grandest bandest
- merry fairy/merrier fairier/merriest fairiest
- hairy fairy/hairier fairier/hairiest fairiest
- weird beard/weirder bearder/weirdest beardest
- white kite/whiter kiter/whitest kitest
- chubby hubby/chubbier hubbier/chubbiest hubbiest
- nice mice/nicer micer/nicest micest
- clean queen/cleaner queener/cleanest queenest
- green queen/greener queener/greenest queenest
- chunky monkey/chunkier monkeyer/chunkiest monkiest
- blue shoe/bluer shoer/bluest shoest
- funny bunny/funnier bunnier/funniest bunniest
- pretty kitty/prettier kittier/prettiest kittiest
- round hound/rounder hounder/roundest houndest
- frail snail/frailer snailer/frailest snailest
- full bull/fuller buller/fullest bullest
- jolly collie/jollier collier/jolliest colliest
- thin chin/thinner chinner/thinnest chinnest
- wide slide/wider slider/widest slidest
- bright knight/brighter knighter/brightest knightest
- hot yacht/hotter yachter/hottest yachtest
- long song/longer songer/longest songest
- mean queen/meaner queener/meanest queenest
- sandy candy/sandier candier/sandiest candiest
- slick chick/slicker chicker/slickest chickest
- small mall/smaller maller/smallest mallest
- wet threat/wetter threater/wettest threatest
Character Details
When you draw your characters, don't just make one big, another bigger, and the last biggest. Figure out what the basic
characteristics are, and amplify those. So a bright knight might be strong, big, shiny, intelligent, wear banners of
honor, and will be successful in battle. A brighter knighter will be stronger, bigger, shinier, more intelligent, wear
more banners of honor, and will be more successful in battle.
To make up your own set of characters:
- think of an adjective--small, red, funny--something that can describe something else.
- Then think of a noun that rhymes with that adjective. Small doll, red head, funny money.
- The turn your words into comparatives and superlatives: small doll/smaller doller/smallest dollest, red
head/redder header/reddest headest, funny money/funnier moneyer/funniest moneyest.
Picture Credits
Original bunny climbing rope picture by Paige Miglio (copyright 2000 ©) from One More Bunny authored by Rick Walton.
Original purple monster picture by Renee Williams-Andriani (copyright 1998 ©) from Really, Really Bad School Jokes authored by Rick Walton.
Original bullfrog seated picture by Chris McAllister (copyright 1999 ©) from Bullfrog Pops! authored by Rick Walton.
Electronic modifications by Ann Walton.
(from Rick Walton's Stuff for Teachers and Librarians)
Last updated: October 25, 2002
