Crayon Color Challenge


Minnesota K-3 Visual Art Standards Used in This Lesson:

  • 1. Identify the elements of visual art including Color, line, shape, Form, Value, texture and space.

  • 2. Identify the tools, materials and techniques from a variety of two- and three-dimensional media such as drawing, printmaking, ceramics or sculpture.

  • 3. Identify the characteristics of visual artworks from a variety of cultures including the contributions of Minnesota American Indian tribes and communities.

  • 4. Create original two- and three- dimensional artworks to express ideas, experiences or stories.

  • 5. Share and describe a personal artwork and reflect on a presentation based on the feedback of others.

  • 6. Compare and contrast the characteristics of a variety of works of visual art.

    • Additional Tie-ins

  • Creative thinking
  • drawing skills
  • problem solving

    • The teacher demonstrates drawing with the white chalk "crayon" as the class brainstorms all the things that could be made with white. Things such as:
  • White daisy flowers
  • White Ghosts
  • Polar bears
  • Snowflakes
  • Dove
  • Marshmallows
  • Snowmen
  • Tshirt
  • Clouds

    • Each student will get a crayon today. They have to imagine all the things you can make with that color, then draw those things as best as they can on one sheet of paper. "What would your crayon like to draw?"

    Thinking outside the box is one avenue to creativity. Another is problem solving. This Crayon Challenge gives students time to think and brainstorm and then draw something they want to draw within the constraints of the exercise.

    Depending on time constraints, "The Day the Crayons Quit" is sometimes read at the end of this project to show the students that just because they have a purple crayon, they don't have to color grapes, plumbs and purple dragons all the time.