A BOX OF CRAYONS
Grade: K+
Age: 4+
Submitted by: Eileen Urbanski, a teacher at Avon Village Elementary School, in Avon OH
Objectives:
I just finished a lesson in honor of Martin Luther King Day that I found to be one of the best of my 6 year
teaching career. This truly is a great lesson I'd love to share!
What You Need:
What You Do:
- Read the poem "A Box of Crayons" to your students. It is about the different colors getting along and liking each other.
- Then, children draw their portraits on a die-cut crayon pattern.
- Place all the crayons into a giant box of crayons that you can create using construction paper (see photo).
Poem
Click here to find the poem: Box of Crayons.
After Activity Poem to Hand Out
Wouldn't it be terrible? Wouldn't it be sad?
If just one single color was the color that we had?
If everything was purple? Or red? Or blue? Or green?
If yellow, pink, or orange was all that could be seen?
Can you just imagine how dull world would be
If just one single color was all we got to see?
Recommended Books:
The Crayon Box That Talked
by: Shane DeRolf
In Shane DeRolf's deceptively simple poem, a child's box of crayons conveys the sublimely simple message that when we all work together, the results are much more interesting and colorful.
