Harold and the Purple Crayon
We’ve owned this classic by Crockett Johnson for years. The text is full of puns as Harold creates his own adventures with the help of his purple crayon.
This post includes highlights from two weeks — one studying Harold and the Purple Crayon and one on family vacation in Tennessee. The full lesson plans are included in Kindergarten: Spring Semester.
Reading
Liam is getting a bit burned out on Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons. We’re taking a break and he’s reading the first set of the Bob Books instead.
Additional Book
Journey is a lovely wordless book in which a girl has adventures with her red crayon and befriends a boy with a purple crayon. The boys are just old enough to enjoy the pictures and use their imaginations.
What To Do When You’re Lost
Harold is looking for his bedroom window and draws a city full of windows while trying to find it. He asks a policeman for help. I used this opportunity to review our address and phone number and what Mommy and Daddy’s real names are. We role played being lost. Liam pretended to find a nice mommy to help him and I pretended to find out who his parents are and their phone number.
Art
Liam drew windows with a purple crayon like Harold did in the book.
Life Skills
Harold has a picnic with nine different kinds of pie. He draws a “hungry moose and deserving porcupine” to finish the leftover pies. We had a little pie picnic in our backyard sans moose and porcupine!
Field Trips
We went to a Peter Rabbit Festival with friends at the SC Botanical Garden. It’s a beautiful place and we’d love to go back sometime.
The week after we studied Harold and the Purple Crayon, we went on a vacation with my husband’s side of the family. Sixteen of us stayed in a large cabin in Pigeon Forge.
Ripley’s Aquarium
Hike in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Dollywood
Quiet Adventures offers lesson plans for preschool and kindergarten. View them all here!
