I LOVED this book! This book won the following awards: Goodreads Choice Awards Best Picture Books and the Texas Bluebonnet Award. This award winning book is about a boy who opens up his crayon box to discover a stack of letters each from one of his crayons. Each color crayon has a complaint or thankful thing to say about his use of him or her over the past year. In the end, the boy wants to make all of his crayons happy, so he creates a creative picture using all of the color equally and to draw whatever that particular crayon requested.
I loved this book, and I know I definitely want to teach with it someday! In addition to the link of activities that I found below, I thought of some acitivities on my own. One idea I had was to have the kids look in their crayon boxes and reflect on each color. Which color have they used the most? Which color have they used the least? They would write this down. They would also write down the thing they use each color for the most to draw. For example if they mostly draw dogs with brown, they would write "dogs" next to "brown." After doing this for each color, I would have the students create their own most creative drawing by switching every color's role to draw. For example, if next to "blue" they wrote "ocean," they may switch their blue and brown to draw a blue dog and a brown ocean.
The following is a link to an awesome resource I found that has specific activities, vocab words, comprehension questions, and more for this particular book: http://www.rif.org/documents/us/The-Day-the-Crayons-Quit.pdf
The video below is a book trailer.
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