Crayons

For my lesson, Ellen and I worked together to create our crayon lesson.  We had the students create two projects for our lesson.  Our first project was a creative drawing using crayons.  The students would take a piece of paper and fold it into thirds.  One student would draw the head on the first third of the paper.  Then the students would pass their paper to the right.  The next student would draw the body on the second third of paper.  The students would pass their paper to the right one last time and that student would draw the legs on the last third of the paper.  The students would be able to draw their creation any way they wanted.  It could be a monster, a human, anything as long as it had a head, arms, and legs.  My example looks like this:

The second project of our lesson was to have the kids draw themselves and either symbols that represent them or something they like to do on a crayon template.  The crayon lesson relates to diversity, and as the students draw themselves on their crayon, they can see the difference of all of their classmates.  The students had to use crayon on their drawing and they had to show themselves in the picture along with something that describes them.  Here is my example:

All of the students crayons would be placed on a bulletin board in a crayon box to be displayed.  This crayon box activity would be used around Martian Luther King Jr. day to describe diversity.  We would incorporate this activity when we talk about Martian Luther King Jr. and what his impact was on diversity.