Heroes of History is an afterschool story time that we've been trying out this school year. It is aimed at elementary ages and focuses on either a historical event or someone from history.
This is what we did for Edwin Binney, the man behind the Crayola crayon.
BOOKS
For our narrative non-fiction book, we read "The Crayon Man: The True Story of the Inventor of Crayola Crayons" by Natasha Biebow.
For this story, I had made puppets out of card stock with words laminated onto the backside.
Instead of reading the book, we divided up the Crayon puppets and each took turns reading our parts as we flipped through the book.
This is something I would do again in a heartbeat with other picture books written in letter forms!
SONG
Because this program is attended by older kids, I've been gravitating towards camp songs to sing and dance to instead of traditional storytime songs. However, finding songs that fit is often a struggle.
We sang, "Hi, My Name Is Joe" in this program but instead of working in a button factory, Joe worked in a crayon factory.
To end with, we played a guessing game. Over the years, Crayola crayons have had SO MANY names for their different colors. The premise of this game was to guess which names were NOT official Crayola names.
In this easily printable game, I have 36 cards, each showing a color and its name but 9 display fake Crayola names.
All the colors were laid out and the fake cards had a stamp on the back. If someone drew a fake color card, they'd know instantly.
These cards were printed on white card stock (for the real colors, the cards is the actual color of the crayon). Here's my PDF for you to print your own.
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