The Day the Crayons Quit

We recently read a very funny book, The Day the Crayons Quit, by Drew Daywalt.

http://www.penguin.com/book/the-day-the-crayons-quit-by-drew-daywalt/9780399255373

September 30th was designated Support the Crayons Day. The crayons are tired of being overworked and over-used, and are finally speaking up. Each crayon writes a letter to Duncan, the owner of the crayons, encouraging, pleading or cajoling him to consider using them to color different objects than they usually do.

This hilarious book happens to be one of the 10 nominees on this year's Red Clover Award list, Vermont's children's choice book award. Click here to see the other nominees for this year.

The book ends with a wonderful mural by Duncan who manages to make all his crayons happy:

This inspired us to have our K, 1st and 2nd graders work on creating their own murals.

Here are the completed murals being hung in the cafeteria for all to see and enjoy!

Kindergarten Mural Based on Drew Daywalt's book The Day the Crayons Quit
Kindergarten Mural based on the book The Day the Crayons Quit from Carol Scrimgeour on Vimeo.



1st Grade Mural part 1 from Carol Scrimgeour on Vimeo.



1st Grade Mural part 2 from Carol Scrimgeour on Vimeo.


2nd Grade Mural Based on Drew Daywalt's book The Day the Crayons Quit
2nd Grade Mural based on The Day the Crayons Quit from Carol Scrimgeour on Vimeo.





2nd Grade Mural Part 2 based on the book The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt from Carol Scrimgeour on Vimeo.