Each letter is from a different color, and bears an unhappy grievance.
It tells the story of Duncan, a little boy who comes home to find his crayons missing and a stack of letters in their place. Use the FREE blank level question guide below for examples at each level of questioning.Potential Plagiarism? So I've now read The Day the Crayons Quit (Drew Daywalt/Oliver Jeffries) and well, I'm disappointed. What makes you feel better when you are sad/ unhappy?.What could Duncan do to make the crayons happier/ feel better?.Why do you think Duncan never uses the pink crayon?.Which crayon do they feel most sorry for, and why?.
why, how) to support their higher level understanding and verbal reasoning. Try to provide your child with some examples of times that you felt this emotion and ask them if they can also come up with any examples of their own (this will be easier for some of the emotions).ģ. If you have older children you can work on their empathy, predicting and inferencing skills (e.g. You can then discuss with your child why the Crayon might be feeling this emotion. The Crayons all express their feelings in this story, which provides you with an opportunity to develop your child’s emotional vocabulary.Īs you come across each emotion in the story have a go at looking in the mirror with your child and trying to match the facial expression and body language of each Crayon. This will develop your child’s vocabulary of colours and everyday objects.Ģ. “Look we found a red jumper”, “The bottle is blue”.
Label each object and colour as you find something new e.g. As you come across each coloured crayon in the story go on a treasure hunt with your child around your home to find objects that match this colour. What can Duncan do to make his crayons feel better and get them back to doing what they do best? Here are my top The Day The Crayons Quit activities you can do with your child to help support his/her speech & language development:ġ. This book is the perfect opportunity to support your child’s knowledge of colours. Duncan loves to colour, but when he opens his box of crayons, he finds only letters, all saying the same thing: His crayons have quit! Purple Crayon is annoyed with Duncan for colouring outside the lines, Pink Crayon wants to be used to draw dinosaurs and monsters and White Crayon feels invisible.
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