Lesson Plans

Make up a story or tell one you already know by illustrating it on recycled CDs! Students create a traditional Sioux sto

Short stories come to life with captivating puppets—and engage students from start to finish. Script writing and puppet

What does your shape look like?

Put nature into perspective with a landscape painting. Students apply the art terms of horizon, vanishing point, foregro

Where does the sun appear in your sky at different times of the day? Use Crayola® Dry-Erase Crayons to record your data

Using knowledge of fractions, students will create a visual illustration of fractional parts with the aid of Crayola® Dr

Why are signs important?

Chase away nighttime fears by reading books and drawing creatures of the imagination.

Petroglyphs, or rock carvings, made by the Tainos still remain in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic and tell the st

Encourage students to pay attention to specific details of the setting in a story. They can bring the story to life as t

Japanese shoji screens are decorative as well as functional. Create a miniature shoji screen with symbols of this unique

Explore the artwork of Rembrandt and observe the mastery of his cross-hatching technique. Students add color to this tec

Tainos, indigenous to Caribbean Islands such as Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, were known as a peaceful people

Students create their own set of fraction equivalents with liquid measurements and can refer back to this for many math

Have fun with sponges and paint! Students create a beautiful collage of fun shapes.

Help students explore bits of the Swahili people by learning a handful of words in Kiswahili, a language spoken by over

View the landscape from a new perspective, using your imagination to creatively paint objects as they would appear from

In this lesson children are introduced to paper cutting and tearing techniques to create a murder of crows inspired by L

What do you see at the zoo?

Take traditional holiday decorations to new creative heights with these 3-D Valentine cupids and mini-plaques!

Collectively, the seasons create a rainbow. Students identify and draw natural elements from each season. Combined toget

Design a famous city or invent a skyline filled with geometric shapes. Add Crayola® Model Magic to create a bas-relief c

Find colorful place names around the world! Draw vivid maps, plan trips, and write travel logs about imaginary journeys

Curl narrow strips of colorful Crayola Color Explosion® Paper—the technique is called quilling. Add them to cards that d

Natural phenomena are endlessly fascinating! Create a model of an erupting volcano and let off some steam.

Bring fairy tales to life! Spark creative book reports! Young readers track plot and characters with imaginative illustr

Draw the states of matter: solid, liquid and gas. Use Crayola® Dry-Erase Crayons to create an original drawing of water

Students make a new name for themselves while having fun with cursive. Design and introduce a clever character created

Who’s eating these flowers? Why do the leaves have holes? Find out which insects are feasting at The Leaf Café!

Create vibrant fish with geometric patterns. Give it a home in a custom designed fish tank!

How many do you have?

Float from Africa to Asia from Antarctica to the Americas. Explore major lakes and mountain regions from a satellite vie

Matter is magic! Why do snowballs disappear and ponds freeze? Make a “magic slider” picture that shows how markers can c

Respond to books by creating new story scenarios with this paper plate story spinner.

Read “The Leopard’s Drum,” and then invent patterns—with words, drums, or hands. Children represent their sounds visuall

Get moving to music and capture the lively motion in the style of Keith Haring.

Is a picture worth a thousand words? Use art to make a point with a political cartoon.

In the wonderful world of optical illusions, lines create the look of 3-D. Create bold, bright, geometric banners.

Students will create a sparkly space scene using tin foil, Crayola Window Crayons, Crayola Dry Erase Crayons and black c

Students hold hands with friends, dance in and out, and get all tangled up into a big knot! Then draw colorful swirls an

Celebrate the Ch'ing Ming Festival, or any festive holiday, with these Tiny Chinese Kites!

Budding authors are drawn to this unusual format. Illustrate a story setting. Then use Crayola® Ultra-Clean Markers to w

Explore the art of creating positive and negative space with Crayola® Bright Fabric Markers, and draw a colorful name de

Imagine a Dancing Marionette made with brightly designed paper! This unique paper curls, twirls, and swirls!

Turtles are found in almost every part of the world. Students investigate what we can learn from these fascinating creat

Investigate how the eyes and brain work together then create an optical illusion.

Explore angles and two-dimensional figures! Measure geometric shapes and design an original stained glass image.

Discover the significance of dates during and immediately after Ramadan. Study the date palm's botanical characteristics