All About Me Crayon

A classroom bulletin board displays “All About Me Crayon” student artwork shaped like crayons, arranged around a large paper crayon box labeled “32 Crayons.”.

We started the day by reading the book The Day the Crayons Quit (Amazon Affiliate link used, goes to help pay for the costs of this website), which is super funny and adorable.

Then, they traced a crayon template and drew the wavy black lines of the wrapper.  They chose their favorite color for the crayon.

Next, the kids wrote their name on the crayon, drew a self-portrait and added pictures of things that they liked or told about them.

I also showed them this video from Sesame Street about how crayons are made.

I got ambitious and made a crayon poster for this display.  I had so much fun with it!  The kids kept giving me tips to make it look more realistic.  The crayons were color photocopies.  The rest was made out of construction paper and markers.

A yellow and green box labeled "Crayons" contains 32 assorted colored personalized crayons, with "Primary All About Me Crayon" and "Non-toxic" written on the package.

Here are some of the kids’ crayons.

Eight hand-drawn All About Me Crayon shapes, each decorated with unique children's drawings in various colors, are arranged in two rows of four.

(The last crayon, the brown one, is a picture of the child dressed in his Egyptian Halloween costume.  I thought this picture was so great, because I have that same headdress!  Also, a few of these, I Photoshopped out their last names so that’s why the crayon might seem to have some weird white space.)

Have you ever taught a crayon themed art project?

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    • Thanks! Unfortunately, the templates are oversized tagboard tracers I made. They wouldn’t fit onto a sheet to print out or even fit on my scanner! I suppose I could make a smaller version.

  6. Hello,
    What materials did you use to create this? I LOVE it and would like to create one but I’m confused on how it was done.

    • I believe it started as a 12″x18″ piece of construction paper. I had templates the kids traced. I can measure it next time I go to school if you want. Thanks for commenting!

  8. I forgot to ask, what type of paper was it…. regular copy paper, or card stock, poster board, etc?