Diversity Workshop 6 - The Day The Crayons Quit (collab - student project)

This resource and lesson plan pack has been designed and created for those who would like to explore diversity with a class of children through a series of workshops designed to encourage thought and conversations.
Citizenship lessons are sometimes hard to teach when you’re not sure where to start! However, here we have given you an idea of how to begin exploring some tricky concepts with children of a Key Stage 2 age and above. The workshop and resources are part of a series of 6 workshops that we have created to help inspire you to talk to your children about, and they can be done as stand-alone activity sessions or as a series to ensure that your children can fully understand and appreciate the concepts of equality and diversity.
The idea of the journals throughout each workshop was to allow children to write how they feel and what they think about the new concepts that they have explored (and also to help them remember if you space out the workshops!)

This specific pack explores the picture book ‘The Day the Crayons Quit’ (which you will need source yourself). This workshop aims to collate all the knowledge that the children have learnt through the workshops. Although the story itself seems to be aimed at younger years, the messages and inferences behind it are much deeper and (we believe) appropriate for KS2 and lower KS3 children. The resources for these activities (bar the book!) are all linked in the pack. The idea for this activity was also to share the crayons with another class either through a link or with another local school to help children make connections with a variety of children to promote the theme of diversity.
We hope you enjoy it!

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