Melanie Nakatani, 8:
Created a purple creature

But Bickham, 11, who's in Ms. Mitsuda's sixth-grade class at Stevenson Intermediate, notes that her monster loves to wear diapers. In fact, he lives on a planet named Diapers.

"He's happy," said Bickham. "I'd be friends with him, because he's friendly. He's not a scary monster. Even though I haven't met him, I can't say anything about him that's scary, because I don't know him."

Bickham likes to draw people, particularly her family. For Halloween, she's going to be a "motorcycle girl."

Michi Bickham, 11:
Her goblin is a ‘friendly’ cyclops.

Nakatani, 8, in Mrs. Ching's third-grade class at Noelani Elementary, notes, "My monster is cool because it howls when the moon is full. My purple monster loves to eat spider flies. Every Halloween my monster wakes up and scares children."

Nakatani insists that if this creature came to her door, she'd be spooked. "I don't like goblins and ghosts and pumpkins - they're SCARY!" she insists, and yet her favorite drawing subjects are animals and, yes, "scary monsters."

For Halloween, Nakatani wants to be the bride of Frankenstein.

Jordan Sonognini's monster is also "cool, because it's scary but still has a heart."

Sonognini, 4, in Mrs. Williams' preschool class at The Children's House in Pearl City, works in mixed media - watercolor, crayon, cut paper, cotton balls and glued-on Q-tips. This all has something to do with surprising his father - he wasn't clear on that point - but he insists that his monster have yellow eyes

"Yellow eyes are happy eyes, not scary eyes," said Jordan.

For Halloween, Jordan is going to be a "fighterman." With yellow eyes.

Jordan Sonognini, 4:
Conjured up a cotton ball ghoul.