A box of crayons-lesson #6

For Ellen and Megan’s lesson, it was for first grade titled a box of crayons. We started off by playing a game called trading places. The teachers had different questions that they asked and if it applied to us, we had to switch places with someone else in the room. We did this multiple times; the idea of this was to explain about diversity and that everyone is different and it’s good to be different, otherwise things would be boring.

Then, we took a big piece of white construction paper and folded it into thirds hamburger style. For the first part at the top, we had to be creative and draw a crazy/fun head. It was cool to not have to worry about drawing a human head; you could come up with anything you wanted! After that, we passed our papers to the right and the next person had to draw a body. They couldn’t look at what the head looked like. For the third section, which was at the bottom, we passed our papers again to the right and that person had to draw some legs. Then, we turned our papers in and the teachers held each one up. They looked like crazy creatures but it was funny to see what everyone came up with! Finally, we took a piece of paper that had a big crayon on it and colored it and designed it as something to represent us. I used all of the colors that are my favorite on there and I also drew a picture of myself with a big smile because I love to smile and be happy! I also wrote NSU and drew a basketball on my crayon because that’s where I go to school and play basketball.

For an extension activity, students could write a story about their crayon that they drew of themselves. They could also write a story of the “creature” that they drew. If they did a story about the creature that they drew, they could come up with a fun name for it and where it lives, etc.