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Crayon Resist
Students color a picture with bright crayons. In this art lesson, students brush a thin coat of water color paint over the picture with the paint only sticking to the uncolored areas.
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Traveling Seeds
Students decorate their bags with crayons. In this art and science lesson, students go outside and collect seeds. Students come back inside and sort the seeds into flyers, riders, poppers, or floaters. Students discuss the differences...
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A Box Of Crayons
Students draw self-portraits on die-cut crayon patterns after hearing the poem "A Box of Crayons" in this Art instructional activity for the elementary classroom. The instructional activity is ideal for celebrating Martin Luther King...
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Jelly Bean Count
Students study graphs. In this mathematics lesson, students count and make a graph use jelly beans by sorting the jelly beans into colors. Students write the amount of each color under the color written on the graph paper and color that...
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Balloon Eggs
Students create a balloon egg out of a blown up balloon with paper mache. In this art lesson, students decorate the egg after it is hard with markers or paint and then use it as a pinata.
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Leaf Scribbles
Students use leaves to create a fall art project. In this leaves activity, students tape leaves down, place paper on top of them and color on top of the paper. The leaf image will appear through the paper.
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Painted String Art
Students dip string in black paint. In this art lesson, students take a piece of construction paper and fold it in half putting the string on one side of paper making a design with string making lots of circle shapes. Students fold the...
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Children's Room Counting
For this counting worksheet, students count the number of blocks, balls, crayons, and chairs they see in the room and cut and paste the correct number next to the item. Students count 4 items.
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Crayons: Print and Color
In this word recognition worksheet, students trace the word "crayons", write the word independently, and color the picture of a box of crayons.
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Poka Dotted Dinosaurs
In this dinosaurs activity, students use crayons to color the dinosaurs in a camouflaged fashion to blend in with their habitat. Students follow 5 directions and answer 2 questions.
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Scratch Art
Students create a piece of art using crayons, black paint and toothpicks. They cover a paper with bright crayon color, paint over the crayons with black paint and then scratch a design over the black paint in a an outline of their choice.
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Kwanzaa Flash Cards
Students study Kwanzaa. In this art lesson, students compare Kwanzaa with the American holdiay known as Thanksgiving. Students decorate seven cards with the seven lessons of Kwanzaa written on them.
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African Village
Students create and decorate an African Heritage home. In this art lesson, students research different African homes and then create one using a box decorating the home using crayons or markers.
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My Crayons Talk Activity Card
In this language arts activity, learners cut out 6 pictures and paste them on a chart of crayon colors to respond to a book called My Crayons Talk. Students paste the pictures of objects that the author Patricia Hubbard associates with...
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Fancy Crayon Box
In this literacy learning exercise, students color in the crayons according to matching the colors. The paper box could be used to reinforce the main colors of the spectrum.
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Graphing Grazy Crayons
Children create crazy crayons they made to sort and construct a floor bar graph. Then, using technology resources, they make a simple bar graph to compare the top four colors produced. Students will then interpret the printed graph by...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: The Rock Cycle: A Hands on Simulation
Students simulate the rock cycle by manipulating wax crayons to represent different forms of rocks. Students will learn the vocabulary of rocks and the formation of the rock cycle.
Read Works
Read Works: Colorful Crayons: Inside a Crayon Factory
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how crayons are made. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Kinder Art
Kinder Art: Emily Carr's Trees (Lesson Plan)
The objective of this art project from KinderArt is to learn about flowing lines and form. Follow the lesson plan to see how it is done.
Kinder Art
Kinder Art: Mondrian Style Painting (Lesson Plan)
At this site students are encouraged to create a Mondrian style painting which will consist of geometric shapes and primary colors.
Stanford University
Stanford University: How Everyday Things Are Made
If you've ever wondered how things are made - products like candy, cars, airplanes, or bottles - or if you've been interested in manufacturing processes, like forging, casting, or injection molding, then you've come to the right place....
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Eddie Arning
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on Eddie Arning. Arning used color in most of his art and is also known for using Crayola crayons. The site, in addition to the...