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Lesson Plans

Everything you need to unleash kids' imaginations

  1. As the Calendar Turns lesson plan

    As the Calendar Turns

    Keep track of the season, month, day, and date with this colorful, changeable calendar.

  2. Bringing Rain lesson plan

    Bringing Rain

    Folklore meets science when you research rain stories, create a mobile demonstrating the stages of the water cycle, and

  3. Bugs Take Shape lesson plan

    Bugs Take Shape

    Imagination and problem-solving go to work as children check out real bugs and create their own.

  4. Abstract Animals lesson plan

    Abstract Animals

    Capture animals in abstract drawings, finding the geometric shapes that make up animal faces and bodies.

  5. After the Dance lesson plan

    After the Dance

    Capture the exhilaration and the exhaustion of exercise in a watercolor resist.

  6. Duckling Parade lesson plan

    Duckling Parade

    Make Way for Ducklings! Create dioramas depicting scenes from this children's classic about a family of mallards

  7. Four Seasons lesson plan

    Four Seasons

    Vivaldi inspires paintings incorporating symbols of the seasons.

  8. Animal Adults & Babies lesson plan

    Animal Adults & Babies

    How do pets or wildlife care for their young? Discover how young animals change as they grow!

  9. Animal Matchmakers lesson plan

    Animal Matchmakers

    What pets do you feed, walk, or groom? Izak, who lives in Lapland, takes care of a reindeer! Match animals with owners a

  10. If I Were an Animal lesson plan

    If I Were an Animal

    If you could have an animal body, what creature would you be? Why? Draw your dream and then spin a tale about your adven

  11. Our Chicks Are Hatching! lesson plan

    Our Chicks Are Hatching!

    What came first, the chicken or the egg? Watch chicks emerge from their shells and make models of them. You’ll always re

  12. Outside My Window lesson plan

    Outside My Window

    Show what you know about how seasons affect our lives and what we do, see, and wear. Use Crayola® Washable Paints to cr