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Classroom Guidance
Title of Lesson: The Crayon Box That Talked
Grade Level: First-Fourth
Diversity/Tolerance
Time Required: 30 minutes
ASCA National Standard: Personal/Social
Standard A: Students will acquire the knowledge, attitudes and interpersonal skills to help them
understand and respect self and others.
PS-A1 Acquire Interpersonal Skills
PS-A1.9 Demonstrate cooperative behavior in groups
PS-A2 Acquire Interpersonal Skills
PS-A2.4 Recognize, accept and appreciate ethnic and cultural diversity
Materials
The Crayon Box that Talked by Shane DeRolf
Drawing paper
Crayons—red, blue, yellow, green
CD—I Will Be Your Friend from Teaching Tolerance
Box of crayons with all the same color--blue
Objectives
1. The students will learn that each Individual is unique.
2. The students will practice cooperative behavior in a group situation.
Activity
(tape a large piece of paper to the chalkboard) Start to draw a picture like clouds…have children
come up and take a crayon out of my box and add something to the picture…house, grass,
flower, etc. Soon they see that every crayon in the box is the same color.
Discussion
 How could we make this picture better? (more colors)
 Aren’t you glad our world is not all the same color?
 What would our world be like if we were all the same? Same color houses, cars,
people, same show on TV all of the time, same food etc.
 How are we different? How are we the same?
 The ways we are different makes us special—who we are
 Sometimes people don’t like other people who are different—clothes, hair, skin
color. They forget what our world would be like if we were all the same.
I am going to read you a book that will help you understand why it is important to get
along with others even if they are different than you.
Cooperative Groups—Divide the glass into groups of 4…each person in the group gets a
different color crayon. Each student will only use that color. The group is to make a picture using
all of the colors. Students sign their names using their color. Share pictures. Students are to do
this silently. Play the CD during the group activity
Closing
Think of yourself as one of the colors in the box of crayons. Each of you is unique but we need
others to make our world complete. Every one of us has things that make us special. There is no
one else just like you. If you meet someone who is different in some way be nice to him or her.
They might just be a good friend for you.