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Crayola: Create to Learn

Dive into dozens of creative activities to support literacy, numeracy and social emotion learning. Developed in partnership with Crayola Education.

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Writing Art-Inspired Stories | Late Arrivals

When stories talk about the passing of time, it helps us to understand how things change. In this activity, you will create illustrations that will reflect the beginning, middle and end of a story.

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STEAM for 21st Century Learners | All the Best Moves

We can use the five STEAM disciplines - science, technology, engineering, art, and math - to explore living and non-living things.

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Social and Emotional Learning | The Best of Me

When you draw upon your strengths, you see the many ways that your skills and personality shine. In this activity, you will create illustrations, that show how you interact with others.

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STEAM for 21st Century Learners | In My World Game

Skills and mindsets that students can cultivate today, like curiosity, imagination, open-mindedness, persistence and growth mindset, prepare them for STEAM careers. Work together to design a game that explores many paths to STEAM careers.

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STEAM for 21st Century Learners | Steps to Success

Developing 21st century learning skills helps young people prepare for the careers of tomorrow. This activity involves imagining and sketching work in the future and making personal connections to careers in science, technology, engineering, art, and math. Together, discuss what future workplaces and jobs might look like and how skills and interests could lead to steam careers.

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Writing Art-Inspired Stories | Hand Drawn Selfies

Self-portraits are images that look outward and inward. In this activity, everyone will create a hand drawn selfie to explore self identity and experiment with what represents the person that others see

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Moved by Math | More or Less

When you draw pictures, your art shows what you think and feel. In this activity, you will create drawings of what you see outside your window. And, with some help form number sentences that use addition and subtraction.

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Writing Art-Inspired Stories | Celebrate and Honor

Art and writing offer us opportunities to celebrate traditions and honor those who have made a difference. In this activity, everyone will create a sculpture and write an accompanying tribute plaque to celebrate someone in their family or community.

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Writing Art-Inspired Stories | Meet Me

Portraits can be realistic or fantastical. But they all reveal something about the person. In this activity, you will learn how to read portraits, then create self portraits and personal stories.

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Moved by Math | Follow My Code

Math and art are at the core of technology and digital communication. In this activity, you will create sculpted characters and draw visual codes that direct movements around a dance floor.

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Moved by Math | Draw a Code

Ancient people drew symbols on cave walls to tell stories. Today, visual communication is everywhere. In this activity, you will create unique stories made with pictures, your own visual code.

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CREATE Relationships | Celebrate Strengths

To create relationships with others, first we need to understand ourselves, the skills, interests, and experiences that make us special. In this activity, you will create a hand-drawn selfie, using words and symbols that celebrate your personal strengths.

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Writing Art-Inspired Stories | Do You See What I Hear

Understanding stories involves listening and visualizing. In this activity, you will create illustrations based on a story you have heard or read.

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STEAM for 21st Century Learners | Weather or Not Game

We all need to be ready for whatever weather is coming. What can you do to prepare for unexpected weather? In this activity, you will design and play a game that helps you explore different types of weather and make decisions when you face unexpected situations.

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Social and Emotional Learning | Everyone Has Feelings

You build social and emotional skills by thinking about what other people feel and recognizing feelings in yourself. In this activity, you will create a book that illustrates a variety of feelings.

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Writing Art-Inspired Stories | If I Was There

Stories that are personally relevant help us to understand the difference between fact and fiction. In this activity, you will create figurines that represent you, and illustrate scenes from a story as you imagine, "What if I was there?"

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Writing Art-Inspired Stories | Write an Adventure

Our imaginations can take us anywhere. To a quiet setting or a busy city filled with sights and sounds. In this activity, you will create a travel journal from a personal perspective, or by pretending to be an imaginary character.

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Social and Emotional Learning | Buddies Keep Me Company

Traveling in pairs can be double the fun, in this activity you will create and trade buddies to learn how to see situations from others' points of view.

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STEAM for 21st Century Learners | Animals Big and Small

Observing what is the same or different is an important skill for 21st century learners. In this activity, you will design and play a hand-made card game to learn about animal families and build observation skills.

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Writing Art-Inspired Stories | How Can Details Energize Stories?

When you look and listen carefully, details inform what you see and hear. In this activity, you will write a story using adjectives and adverbs, then create an illustration that shows what happened next.

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Writing Art-Inspired Stories | What if Objects Told Stories?

Imagine you found an old object that had been hidden away for years. What if the object could talk? In this activity, you will explore an old object, then sculpt your own, and develop a story based on fact and fiction.

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Create to Learn Live Action | Let's Read Art

Using SEEK questions helps us to discover and learn about the world – and see art in new ways!

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CREATE Relationships | Respect Diversity

Our communities are made up of lots of different people. Understanding how we are similar and different helps us create positive relationships with others.

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Social and Emotional Learning | Gifts of Kindness

You learn about responsibility and kindness by focusing on what you can do to help others.

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Writing Art-Inspired Stories | Stories Need Personality, Place, and Plot

Looking at pictures can help us create characters with their own personalities, create your own characters and add details that reveal parts of their personality. Share and describe your characters to others, then you can create a story together.

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CREATE Relationships | Accept and Learn From Mistakes

Making mistakes is part of being human. When we figure out what went wrong we learn how to solve future problems and improve our skills.

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How Words Make People Feel

The words we say to each other affect our relationships, so it’s important to talk to and about other people with kindness and care. In this activity you will explore how words and tone of voice make people feel included or excluded, then create a mask that shows how others’ comments make you feel.

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Create to Learn Live Action | Let's See Your Thinking

By inviting us to think in new ways, and see how different ideas are connected, idea webs help us build brain power!

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STEAM | Finding Fascinating Problems

Our brains like questions, movement, and visual exercises. In this activity, students will research and illustrate how the brain works when actively engaged in finding and solving fascinating problems.

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Moved by Math | Foot Traffic

People measure all types of things every day: distances walked, sizes of clothing or a room, quantities of food and time for cooking. In this activity, you will trace your feet and cut them out to use as non-standard measures, then create pictographs to represent the data you collect.

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STEAM | STEAM Teams Wear Many Hats

Collaboration helps us see problems from new perspectives. In this activity, children will learn about the Boston Molasses Flood and ask STEAM questions to solve the mystery.

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STEAM | Why Move and Sketch?

Physical activity activates brains! In this video, children will learn about STEAM by engaging in creative movement and sketching experiences that show energy and how natural and manmade objects move.

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STEAM | Blend Ideas to Make Them Better

Scientists, tech experts, engineers, artists and mathematicians get excited when they think of good ideas and blend them with other ideas. In this activity, children will create a board game and work together to make it better.

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STEAM | Imitate Nature's Solutions

Nature solves problems in surprising and inventive ways. In this activity, children will create a biomimicry card game and think about the ways in which nature can be imitated to solve real-world problems.

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STEAM | Let's Doodle Together

Visual thinking is an important way of communicating! In this activity, children will design imaginative STEAM solutions to solve real-world problems.

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CREATE Relationships | Engaging Fully

Sometimes, the books we read can influence how we view ourselves and others. Books tell us who is important, and whose stories matter. Examining books helps us see gaps. Who else should be seen and heard in books?

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Writing Art-Inspired Stories | Cause and Effect

Looking closely at art helps us imagine a story and predict how it could change. In this activity, you will use a piece of art as a story starter – then predict what could happen next.

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STEAM for 21st Century Learners | Parks and Playgrounds

Parks, and public spaces give everyone opportunities to enjoy the outdoors. In this activity, you will observe how people use public spaces and then design parks and playgrounds that are attractive, fun, and functional.

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STEAM for 21st Century Learners | Transportation Game

When we make the games we play, we connect ideas about people and places. In this activity, you will design a Transportation Game to learn how and why things move from place to place.

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Create to Learn Live Action | Let's Be Creative

Art is a great way to share your thoughts and feelings with others – but how does someone be creative? By following four steps: create, present, respond, and connect!

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STEAM | Teams Pitch Solutions

Children form STEAM teams that work on fascinating real-world problems, design solutions, and then pitch their ideas to others. They build skills in articulating points of view, embracing others’ ideas, and finding new ways to collaborate.

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Kindness and Belonging

In this video, students will plan an adventure with friends, assume leadership roles based on their strengths, and think about how they would welcome a new team member.

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Writing Art-Inspired Stories | Story Surprises

Stories spark listeners' curiosity, and help us to understand the difference between fiction and non-fiction. In this activity, you will Use your creative ideas to illustrate familiar stories, then adjust those stories by drawing different characters, settings, or plot actions to show how a story can be changed.

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CREATE Relationships | Trust Each Other

When we create new things, we learn by being open to constructive feedback from other people. But to learn from comments others say about our work, we must trust each other.

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Create to Learn Live Action | Let's Build Stories

Whether we start with a personal experience or by looking at art, when we ask questions, we build stories. Your imagination helps bring the characters, setting and plot to life.

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Create to Learn Live Action | Let's Explore STEAM Teams

New inventions and improvements are almost always made by teams – innovation is a team sport! This video will explore how STEAM teams work collaboratively to solve problems.

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Create to Learn Live Action | Let's Look and Sketch

Observing helps us connect what we see to what we know and want to know. In this activity, you’ll make sketches to learn about the patterns, shapes, colors and lines we see in nature.

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STEAM | What's Missing?

Outdoor explorations often have unexpected experiences and problems that need to be figured out. In this video, children take a hike, are surprised by a rainstorm, and use inquiry to discover how STEAM explorers solve problems.

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Writing Art-Inspired Stories | The Future I See

When we imagine the future, we visualize our hopes and dreams. In this activity, you will create magic mirrors and personal sculptures to explore the endless possibilities of the future.

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Moved by Math | Visual Symbols

Visual symbols are everywhere, helping us find what we need, identify locations and communicate with others without using words. In this activity, you will learn about the power of simple images by using shapes and lines to design original symbols that others can count on.

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Writing Art-Inspired Stories | Colourful World of Animals

Nature and art can inspire us to tell amazing stories. In this activity, you will create an imaginary animal and build a story around it.

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Writing Art-Inspired Stories | Make Stories Shine

Looking at illustrations before reading the words in picture books helps us see that there are many different ways of telling stories. In this activity, you will look at the pictures in a book, then retell the story as a puppet play.

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Writing Art-Inspired Stories | What Happened Next

Sequencing helps us understand the main idea of a story and how changing the order can change the meaning and outcome. In this activity, you will illustrate a sequence of events in a story and organize them in ways that follow and then change the plot.

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STEAM for 21st Century Learners | Design Innovations

Designers and engineers create new products by identifying unmet needs. Then defining, exploring, and assessing solutions. This activity uses the IDEA Design Thinking Process to re-imagine and improve items used every day at home, school or in your community.

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Writing Art-Inspired Stories | Colorful Ways and Colorful Days

Looking at illustrations before reading the words in picture books helps us see that there are many different ways of telling stories. In this activity, you will look at the pictures in a book, then retell the story as a puppet play.

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Create to Learn Live Action | Let's CREATE Relationships

The ways we interact with and talk about others can CREATE positive productive relationships. Let’s learn about the CREATE Relationships tools!

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STEAM | Flip and Sketch Ideas

STEAM Teams include scientists, tech experts, engineers, artists and mathematicians who solve real-world problems, knowing there is always more than one right answer. In this video, children modify everyday objects that could be used in new ways to solve real-life problems.

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Moved by Math | Math Path

Art helps us to understand math ideas as we observe, talk about and sketch what we see. In this activity, you will sketch outdoors and use multiplication to turn your draft drawings into art filled with patterns.

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STEAM for 21st Century Learners | Dream Car

From self-driving cars to amphibian roadsters, vehicles are always changing to meet human needs. In this activity, you will use the IDEA design thinking steps to create innovative new vehicles.

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Writing Art-Inspired Stories | Change Poems

Poetry helps us explore our inner selves and see the self we show others. In this activity, you will write poems that describe who you are and how people change.

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Moved by Math | Prices and Percentages

Combining art and math can help you understand prices and making good choices. In this activity, you will create a collage of images that will help you understand the difference between what you want and what you need. You will need: markers, scissors, a glue stick, paper pad, picture frame, optional recycled newspaper for store flyers.

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STEAM for 21st Century Learners | Look Around

Observing and describing what you see is important. In this activity, you will make in play a "what do I see?" game then create an opposites book.

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Create to Learn Live Action | Let's Write With Intention

When authors and artists make art, they intentionally make decision – and the Intentional Writing Framework can help you create art too!

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STEAM | Ask Deeper Questions

Asking questions helps turn curiosity into inquiry! In this activity, children will learn more about different types/ levels of questions by creating an Inquiry Ladder and challenging themselves to think about bigger, essential questions.

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CREATE Relationships | Extend Expectations

Having positive relationships with others helps us plan the future and set high expectations for our success, the relationships, interests and paths we will take as we look upwards and onwards.

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Moved by Math | Math and Me

When we use art to weave math into stories, we make it fun and memorable. In this activity, you will use your imagination to create art that adds extra noses, eyes, and maybe even animal features to people. You will need: washable markers, crayons, paper, blunt tip scissors, and a glue stick.

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Moved by Math | Harvest Hunt

Drawing and sculpting helps us to understand math ideas. In this activity, you will learn about sorting and multiplying by creating an imaginary garden full of 3D fruits and vegetables, and use them to play math games

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Moved by Math | Order it Again

Shapes, lines, sizes and patterns are all part of math - and art. In this activity, you will create characters with modeling clay, then put them in order in lots of different ways. First to last, shortest to tallest, biggest to smallest.

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