The Land of Pebbles

Imagine an environment unlike any on earth. Use Crayola® Crayons and Markers to create a unique landscape, blending the marker colors with a wet Crayola Paint Brush.

• 1.

  Compare a variety of ecosystems, and the animals and people that live there. What aspects of those environments are important to their survival? Imagine an environment unlike any on earth.

• 2.

  Cover a table top with recycled newspaper. On construction paper, draw an environment, including landscape, plants, and creatures with Crayola Crayons. For a pebbled effect, press and twist the end of the crayon (opposite the point) on your paper.

• 3.

  In larger areas, use Crayola Washable Markers to fill in color. Use a wet Crayola Paint Brush to blend the marker for a watercolor effect. Dry on a flat surface.

• 4.

  Use markers to add details.

• 5.

  Write a short story about the environment you created, and the creatures that inhabit it.

Benefits

• Children research different ecosystems, environments, and inhabitants of each, and then imagine an original environment and its inhabitants.
• Children create an original artwork depicting a Land of Pebbles or their own imagined environment.
• Students write about their imagined environment and its inhabitants.

Adaptations

• Create a drawing for each type of environment (arid, rainforest, woodlands). Fill environments with animals who live there, and show people in appropriate clothing.
• Use Crayola Model Magic to sculpt the creatures in an environment. Paint them with Crayola Tempera Paint.
• Find information about the Italian epiphany festival each January in which a kindly witch, Befana, bestows gifts to well-behaved children and pebbles or lumps of coal to others. Write about which you deserve (gifts or pebbles) and why.