The Day the Crayons Quit Book Activities and Craftivity

THE DAY THE CRAYONS QUIT

The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt is a fun read aloud for back to school in Kindergarten and First Grade. Using very familiar classroom tools, crayons, students can imagine what would happen if their crayons quit working to go on strike! This entertaining book, paired with these book companion activities, will help students practice important literacy and reading comprehension skills in a fun and engaging way!

THE DAY THE CRAYONS QUIT BOOK ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS

Duncan has a big problem. His crayons QUIT! They refused to start working again until he made some big changes. The red crayon feels overworked. The purple crayon is tired of having to color outside the lines. The beige crayon doesn't feel special, and grey crayon feels overused.

On and on the complaints came. Every crayon had something it was upset about, so it QUIT.

Poor Duncan just wanted to color. And he didn't want the crayons to be upset. So he made a nice picture, using ALL of the colors in the crayon box. The teacher was so impressed by his work, she gave Duncan a sticker for his good work, and a gold star for his creativity!

This book study unit is packed with fun activities that will help your Kindergarten and First Grade students with story elements, making predictions, character traits, making text to self connections, author's purpose, main idea, making inferences, vocabulary, writing, giving opinions and advice, problem and solution, story retell, reading comprehension, and much more!

These activities can be used for whole class instruction, during small group guided reading time, as individual student work, or as part of a book club. Copy a pack for each student and you're ready to go!

This Day the Crayons Quit book companion will save you tons of planning time, is no prep, and is great to leave for a sub!

Want to make sure you are hitting the reading standards for Kindergarten or First Grade? This resource includes ELA standards charts for Common Core, TEKS and VA SOL, showing you exactly which skills your students are learning while doing these activities!

THE DAY THE CRAYONS QUIT CRAFT

This Day the Crayons Quit craftivity has students draw and write to a crayon of their choosing, asking them to keep working so that they can draw pictures. This is a great follow-up activity after reading the book, and the craft makes a fun bulletin board display to showcase student learning.