Easy Crayon Book Craft For Kids [Free PDF Template]
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Let’s celebrate the start of a brand new school year with a fun, hands-on activity! Your little learners will love creating this crayon book craft to express themselves and document the beginning of the year.
There are so many creative ways to welcome students back into learning mode. This crayon book is just one of our many engaging back to school crafts to try. Kids will love them and parents and teachers will appreciate how easy they are to implement.
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1st Day Of School Crayon Book Craft
This colorful project is the crayon version of our pencil book craft. Young artists and writers can choose between gluing a blank page for drawing or a lined page for writing into their book. Each crayon book can be customized in their favorite color for another way to show off their personality and style.
This back to school craft will help kids strengthen their fine motor skills and confidence as they cut, glue, and assemble their books. It also encourages kids to use their creativity, early literacy, and self-expression when they make this cute keepsake.
Download our free printable crayon template and grab a few supplies like construction paper or cardstock, brads, scissors, and glue to create a simple and engaging book that will be a hit with your little ones.
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Supplies
- Colored cardstock or construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Fastener
- Puncher
- Crayon Book Template (click the “click here to get your freebies” image at the end of the post)
Directions
Start by downloading and printing the template. Once the template is printed, gather the materials for this fun activity. Get those scissors ready, and let’s help the kids bring this crayon book to life!
Next, glue the crayon wrapper onto the crayon body to create the iconic crayon look.
Take the cover tag that reads “Back To School”. Glue this piece onto the crayon wrapper. This is the centerpiece of your crayon book!
Now it’s time to create the book’s page! Just take the lined paper page and glue it to the front of the back cover of the book.
Help your kids punch a hole at the top of the crayon craft. This hole will be used to secure your book.
Take a brass fastener and insert it into the hole you just punched. Spread the prongs to secure everything in place.
Don’t you just love how this simple crayon craft turned out? It’s a fantastic way to get your kids excited about a new school year! If you’re looking for more fun ideas, be sure to check out our favorite school bus crafts!
Back To School Books For Kids
We Don’t Eat Our Classmates – This silly book is about a dinosaur named Penelope who is starting school and just can’t resist eating her classmates! Kids will love the fun drawings and crazy antics of Penelope, while also learning that being mistreated is never fun.
Chairs On Strike – The chairs have had enough of all the crazy things the kids do to them so they go on strike! This story helps kids learn to take care of their property and has lots of fun and silly humor.
Daniel Goes To School – If you have a little one who’s starting preschool or kindergarten and is reluctant to be away from you, this book is perfect for them! Daniel Tiger learns “grown-ups come back” at the end of every school day. We love this cute book!
Back To School Craft Ideas
Glue Bottle Craft – A new school year means new school supplies, so this glue bottle is a cute and simple way to celebrate the back to school time. Kids will hone fine motor skills while bringing this bottle of glue to life with a big smile and bendy arms and legs.
Pencil Shape Craft – Kick off the school year with this big pencil! Kids will be amazed to see how simple shapes like rectangles, triangles, and circles come together to make a pencil. It’s a fun way to boost shape recognition, fine motor skills, and confidence while getting creative.
Crayon Box Name Craft – Kids will be proud to show off their name in the iconic yellow and green crayon box. This personalized craft is a great way for kids to practice spelling their name, learn letter recognition, and make a keepsake they’ll be excited to display.
Bus Name Craft – All aboard the learning bus! Kids will spell out their names in this activity that also explores shapes like circles, rectangles, and octagons. It’s a hands-on way for them to build fine motor skills, letter recognition, and shape recognition. Plus, these cheerful buses will look adorable on classroom bulletin boards!
Back To School Free Printables
Grab these free printable back to school pattern worksheets where backpacks, books, and pencils are turned into pattern puzzles. Kids will figure out what picture comes next then cut, match, and glue it in place.
It’s like solving a puzzle using colors and shapes. These hands-on pages help preschoolers ease back into learning after summer. The best part is these pages feel like a game, so sharpening skills and building early logic is happening without them knowing!
Back to school tracing worksheets turn handwriting practice into a fun learning experience! This set is packed with fun school themed pages where kids will trace lines, letters, and shapes to build fine motor control and confidence in their writing.
Each page has an activity where kids will trace the dotted lines to form the letter Bb, reveal a globe they can color, follow the wavy or zigzagging paths. There’s black and white versions and full color versions available to download.
Back To School Dot To Dot Printables
Begin the year with a smile by having kids fill out this fun and friendly All About Me worksheet to build early literacy and self-awareness. It’s a playful way for little learners to share their favorite snack, favorite color, how many pets they have, and more.
They’ll practice writing their name, age, and grade along with prompts that inspire creativity, invite them to have conversations, and help kids proudly celebrate what makes them unique!
These pencil emotions do a dot printables help preschoolers explore feelings while having fun with art! Little ones with dot their way through pencils that are happy, sad, silly, and more.
They’ll build fine motor control and emotional awareness as they complete each page. Grab the dot markers and download these pages for colorful and expressive fun.
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Crayon Book Craft
Materials
- Colored cardstock or construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Fastener
- Puncher
- Crayon Book Template
Instructions
- Download the template, print it, and cut out the pieces you need.
- Begin by gluing the wrapper onto the crayon body piece.
- Next, glue the “Back To School” label onto the striped wrapper.
- Then, glue the lined paper page to the front of the back cover piece.
- Line up the two crayon pages and punch a hole through the top of the craft.
- Finally, insert a brass fastener the punched hole. Secure each fastener by spreading its prongs.
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