Creative activities can strengthen children’s problem-solving and critical-thinking skills, improve hand-eye coordination and attention span, encourage self-expression and curiosity, and introduce them to different perspectives and values. Dive into dozens of creative activities for children that help kids to understand our world through creativity with the Crayola: Create to Learn™ series from Makematic, available on Learn360 for K–12 schools and districts and Just for Kids for public libraries.
Developed in partnership with Crayola Education, the 50-part Crayola: Create to Learn series for grades PreK through 8 helps students practice and develop life skills, leadership mindsets, future readiness aptitude, numeracy, visual and written literacy, and more.
Here are just some of the ideas you’ll find:
- Team Doodle (Item #282892): In this video, the children identify some objects or experiences as they might evolve in the future. They doodle the outlines of their ideas based on observation, exploration, and imagination. They contribute individually to a collaborative art presentation, where they invite the audience to join the doodle experience. Through this experience, they gain skill in using the arts elements of line, shape, color, and pattern to demonstrate a forward-thinking growth mindset, express their curiosity, and develop collaboration skills.
- A Mistake Is a Gift (Item #282893): When a mistake is made, it is a moment of decision: toss away what was started or find a creative way to revise what was being created. Children in this video use their handwriting mistakes as opportunities to design something different and create interesting illustrations and playful flaps/windows that get woven into and around the words they write. An “oops” provides the gift of taking a new path and using creative thinking, a skill that prepares children for the future.
- Ways I Make a Difference (Item #282894): There are many ways that children’s individual actions make a difference and can address big concerns. In this video, the children choose the issue of water conservation. They explore uses for water and identify where there is waste. They use their observation/investigation tool to look closely for signs of the impact water has on the environment. Then they present their observations and recommendations for conserving water and gather others’ ideas.
- Reflect on Today’s Stories (Item #282912): In this video, children create time capsules to store their original writing. The young authors will individually determine what genre they will use to write about an interesting or significant, timely event, or experience. Then, in a future month or year, they will open the time capsules and reflect upon how their thoughts and feelings might have changed.
- Improv Art (Item #282905): In this video, children work in pairs to improvise spoken and sketched dialogue, using visual and verbal prompts to build the capacity they need to react quickly to situations, prepare for unexpected events and build future-ready skills.
Other Crayola series you can find on Learn360 and Just for Kids include:
- Crayola: Reading Comprehension (Item #275045)
- Crayola: Moved by Math (Item #275012)
- Crayola: STEAM for 21st Century Learners (Item #275034)
- Crayola: Writing Art Inspired Stories (Item #275023)
- Crayola Pilot Project (Item #274981)
- And more!
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