Engage your students with this fun and meaningful resource inspired by Love from the Crayons by Drew Daywalt & Oliver Jeffers! This multi-subject pack combines writing, maths, and craft activities to celebrate love, kindness, and creativity in your classroom.

Pre Reading Tasks

• predictions from the cover

• predictions for what will happen after two pages

• Interactive Flap Page for recording predictions

Print and Go Resources

• What colour do you think love is

• Write a letter

• Colour and connections

• Comparing two texts from the same author

• Words or phrases to describe love

Acrostic Poems

• Print off the templates and give them out randomly to students so that you will have similar numbers for each colour

• There is an example of PINK as an acrostic poem on the template

• When complete display

Persuasive Writing: The Best Colour for Love

• Students write an opinion piece on which colour best represents love and why.

• Discuss the rubric

• Use the planner to draft your work

• Use the lined paper to write your text or use the small book option

Graphing Task

• Ask each student what is their favourite crayon colour

• Collect tally marks from your grade

• Then use this data to graph the results on the next page

• There are options for the colour, not the word

Valentine Symmetry

• Draw the other half of each object

• Then colour your work

Craft Idea

• Use crayon shavings to make a heart that can be displayed in your classroom

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