Create a cherished keepsake or gift! Fill this accordion-fold book with memories of great times shared with family, teammates, and friends.

• 1.

  What were the most important times in your life? Choose one to tell about in a Memory Book. With Crayola® Colored Pencils, list the event’s highlights.

• 2.

  Cover your art area with newspaper. Cut watercolor paper with Crayola Scissors into front and back book covers. Use your imagination to paint them with Crayola Washable Watercolors and Watercolor Brushes. Dry.

• 3.

  Cut two pieces of cardboard the same size as the book covers. Attach covers to the cardboard with Crayola School Glue. Dry.

• 4.

  With Crayola Fine Tip Markers, write the title of your Memory Book on its front cover. Include the date. Leave space for a picture or photo if you like. Add extra sparkle with Crayola Glitter Glue. Decorate the back cover, too.

• 5.

  Measure and cut strips of construction paper that are as tall as your book. Glue strips together so you can make several pages. Fold your strips like an accordion, making each page as wide as your book. Glue the first sheet to the inside of the front cove

• 6.

  Write journal entries about your special event. Include names of family or friends who participated. Draw pictures. Attach photos. Include tickets, brochures, or programs.

• 7.

  Tie your Memory Book together with ribbon, yarn, or raffia.

Standards

• LA: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
• LA: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
• LA: Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.
• MATH: Solve problems involving measurement and conversion of measurements from a larger unit to a smaller unit.
• VA: Use different media, techniques, and processes to communicate ideas, experiences, and stories.
• VA: Use visual structures of art to communicate ideas.

Adaptations

• Individually, students create self-portraits which include brief descriptions of significant events in their lives. Students can illustrate their own events.
• Students use the Memory Books format to propose a mystery person to classmates. This may be a famous person that the student is researching, another classmate that they are presenting to a group, etc. Prior to creating mystery books, the class of students create questions to pose during an interview. Sketch appropriate pictures throughout the mystery book to assist with uncovering the mystery person.