Bedtime Book Report
Snuggle up to read a good book about sleep, then write a book report about it on a quilt. Craft a bed with a recycled box. Sweet dreams!
1. Choose and read a book about bedtime or sleeping. As you read the book, think about the characters and what they look like in your imagination.
2. Create a bed for your characters with a recycled box. Some possibilities are poster beds, beds with headboards, canopy beds, bunk beds, or trundle beds. Use colored Crayola® Model Magic to sculpt bed posts and other furniture details. Cut construction paper parts with Crayola Scissors. Decorate your bed with Crayola Washable Markers. Attach the furniture parts to the box with Crayola School Glue.
3. Use Model Magic to sculpt the main characters from the story. Fill the bed with as many characters as possible.
4. Cut white paper into a quilt to fit over the characters on your bed. With Crayola Erasable Colored Pencils, write and illustrate a book report on the quilt. Cover the characters with your quilt book report.
Adult supervision is required for any arts & crafts project. Observe children closely and intervene as necessary to prevent potential safety problems and ensure appropriate use of arts and crafts materials. Some craft items, particularly beads and buttons, are potential choking hazards for young children. Avoid use of such small parts with children younger than 3 years. Craft items such as scissors, push pins and chenille sticks may have sharp points or edges. Avoid use of materials with sharp points by children younger than 4 years. Read all manufacturers' safety warnings before using arts and craft supplies.
Crayola Modeling Materials including Crayola Model Magic®, and Model Magic Fusion™, Crayola Air-Dry Clay, and Crayola Dough—
- Keep away from open flames. Do not use to make candleholders, hot plates, trivets, or other similar objects that will be used or placed near fire and other heat sources.
- Do not put in an oven, microwave, or kiln.
- Do not make into vessels/containers that will hold unpackaged food.
- The use of modeling material to make items that look like food is discouraged for children younger than age 5 to avoid their confusion with real food.
- Unless sealed with a water-resistant glaze, do not make projects exposed to or immersed in water, such as boats or outdoor bird feeders. They would disintegrate when exposed to moisture.
- Crayola Dough—contains gluten (wheat flour) as an ingredient.
- Crayola Air-Dry Clay, Crayola Model Magic and Model Magic Fusion are gluten-free. However, they are produced on the same machinery as Crayola Dough which does contain gluten. Although the machines are cleaned prior to the start of each production run, there is a slight possibility that trace amounts of gluten from Crayola Dough may be present in the other modeling compound products. For information regarding specific ingredients or allergic concerns, please call our Consumer Affairs department at 1-800-272-9652 weekdays between 9 AM and 4 PM Eastern Standard Time.
Scissors—ATTENTION: The cutting edges of scissors are sharp and care should be taken whenever cutting or handling. Blunt-tip scissors should be used only by children 4 years and older. Pointed-tip scissors should be used only by children 6 years and older.
- Students with learning disabilities or younger students read a story as a class. List characters and their actions. Identify important story events by creating a graphic organizer. Write main events in bubbles or circles, then make branches off of the main events connecting them to details about the events and what characters were involved.
- Hold a pajama or slipper day during November, National Sleep Month. Students and teachers bring in a stuffed animal, quilt, or favorite book. Children present their book and project to the class.
- Research different time zones. What are children around the world doing while you sleep? What are you doing while they sleep?
- Very young children count sheep to get to sleep with Ten Little Ladybugs by Melanie Gerth.
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