Personification Assessment

After reading Our Tree, Steve (illustrated by David Cantrow) we discussed personification and when/where we see it at. I showed the video http://youtu.be/n2Gzk-8J-Y4 from Beauty and the Beast that I found on YouTube that really illustrates a typical way that we see personification.
Then I laid out pictures of animals that I had found in magazines and cut out and called table groups back one at a time and let each student choose an animal. They had to take their picture and give their animal human characteristics by completing the rest of the picture on a white sheet of paper. Above are two of the best ones that were turned in. They were so funny the ideas that the kids came up with.