Create a Beanie Baby

Everyone has heard of Beanie Babies, those cute and cuddly miniature stuffed animals that have hit the toy market by storm. For your paragraph a week assignment this week, imagine that Ty Warner, the creator and owner of the company that produces and markets the Beanie Babies, has approached you to design the next Beanie Baby. What animal will you select? What name will you give it? What will be its birthday? Its poem? What will it look like? Be creative; make your Beanie unique.

On the back of this paper, brainstorm ideas for your creation. Use your ideas to write a paragraph that would be suitable for the Ty product catalog. Remember that this catalog is what retailers use to select the products to sell in their stores.

For extra credit, draw your Beanie Baby on art paper and attach it to your paragraph.

REMEMBER:

1. ___ 5-8 sentences
2. ___ topic sentence, detail sentences, concluding sentence
3. ___ five elements of good writing, focusing on PURPOSE and IDEAS
4. ___ clearly reworked rough draft
5. ___ final is neat and written in ink
6. ___ signature of adult who helped you proofread your work for content and presentation
7. ___ all three papers stapled together with final on top