The Day the Crayons Quit Crafts and Activities
Picture Books
"Reading brings us unknown friends." ~ Honore de Balzac
The Days the Crayons Quit is a super cute story that explores feelings and conflict management. Poor Duncan just wants to color, but when he opens his box of crayons, he finds that his crayons have had enough! They quit! The crayons are all arguing about which one of them is more important. The story explores a bunch of different feelings in an amusing and relatable way.
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We had a lot of fun reading, discussing and doing The Day the Crayons Quit crafts and activities.
The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt and illustrated by Oliver Jeffers is a really delightful book that introduces topics such as diversity and conflict management at a level that children can relate to.
The Day the Crayons Came Home is a fun companion book where kids will have fun exploring more colors and their problems.
The Day the Crayons Quit Crafts and Activities:
- Write a letter to your favorite color.
- Make Crayon Ornaments. We used ours as decorations and as characters to play with.
- Explore colors and feelings with our Many Colored Feelings Activity
- Make your own Rainbow Crayons.
- Make Rock Art with melted crayons.
- Explore Coloring Pages from Tree Valley Academy.
- Mommy’s Memorandum has some fun, free activity sheets.
- Help make literature more meaningful with Literacy Central’s puzzles and extension activities.
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Discussion Questions for The Day the Crayons Quit:
While reading the book ask questions to build understanding and language skills.
Discussion Questions for The Day the Crayons Quit:
- What crayon works the hardest for you? Do you think that the crayon likes it when you choose it? Why or why not?
- When is it important to color inside the lines? Do you like to be neat, too?
- Do you ever feel ignored or not valued like Beige?
- How do you feel after you have to work really hard?
- Do you ever feel “empty” like white? If so, when?
- Have you ever wished that someone would invite you to play?
- What work do you enjoy doing?
- Have your friends ever argued? How did that make you feel?
- What color is the sun? Do you think that more than one color could share the sun?
- Have you ever felt like you needed “a break” from a friend? How did you handle that?
- Are there colors that are boy colors or girl colors? If so, how do you decide which is which?
- Have you ever felt embarrassed like Peach?
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