All About Me Crayon

Bulletin board with a large crayon box decoration and children's "All About Me" drawings displayed around it.

One of the first projects my first graders made were these “All About Me Crayons”. I had seen and taught this lesson probably 10 years ago and decided to revisit it. I can not remember exactly where I saw this idea, but as many lessons are, we get ideas and see projects all over the place. I try to credit when I can, but some of these I have been doing so long! We started the day by reading the book The Day the Crayons Quit, 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 wanted to show the version from Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood, but I could not find a clean copy without pop-up comments from YouTube channels. Anyways, if you find one, let me know!

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 box of 32 colorful crayons with various shades visible through a transparent window, ideal for All About Me projects.

Here are some of the kids’ crayons.

Drawings of eight colorful crayon boxes labeled with children's names, each uniquely decorated with various "All About Me" drawings.

(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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11 Responses to All About Me Crayon

Mrs.C says:

September 22, 2014 at 1:35 pm

These are great! I’m saving this one! Thanks!

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Heidi says:

June 6, 2015 at 4:03 pm

This looks great. Here is the Mr. Roger’s video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xhbctEcAAA

Shelley Menhennet says:

September 18, 2015 at 8:43 am

This is such a sweet idea. I have pinned it to keep it for later. Thanks

Robin Berkowitz says:

August 5, 2016 at 8:27 am

Great Idea! You should include a link to print out your templates.

- Marcia Beckett says:
  
  August 5, 2016 at 12:44 pm
  
  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.
  
Michelle says:

July 25, 2018 at 2:09 am

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.

- Marcia Beckett says:
  
  July 26, 2018 at 2:52 pm
  
  We used paper, crayons and black sharpie to make our crayons.
  
Carmel Hall says:

June 23, 2022 at 8:51 pm

I love this idea! What size of paper did you use?

- Marcia Beckett says:
  
  June 23, 2022 at 9:04 pm
  
  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!
  
Carmel Hall says:

June 23, 2022 at 8:58 pm

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