Make a model of a tree and put some unusual items in it to recreate one of the illustrations in the book. Creativity: The imaginative solutions Floyd comes up with to dislodge his kite demonstrate his creativity. Cultivating this trait helps students approach problems from different angles and think outside conventional norms. Look at the different illustrations of the tree in the story. Although it is the same tree, it is coloured in different ways. Can you draw the same thing lots of times and decorate each one with different colours? How does this alter how the picture looks? Which one do you prefer?

Activity: Ask students to create a cause and effect chart. They should list each item Floyd throws into the tree (cause) and what happens to it (effect). This helps them understand how cause and effect relationships contribute to the sequence of a story. You can also use cards like the one in the image below. Winner – Children's Book Council 2014 Children's Choice Book Awards (Kindergarten to Second Grade Book of the Year) The Day The Crayons Quit (illustrator)In 2020, Jeffers delivered a TED Talk, ‘Ode to Living on Earth’, which was released on Earth Day. [8] and Jeffers Illustration book Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth is adapted to a short film by Apple TV+. [9] Les lauréat.e.s 2020 du Prix des libraires du Québec | Jeunesse sont..." Prix des libraires (in French) . Retrieved 17 February 2020. Winner – CBI Book of the Year Awards 2014 Children's Choice Award, The Day The Crayons Quit (illustrator) Winner – The New York Times Book Review One of the year's Best Illustrated Children's Books for The Hueys in The New Sweater Activity: Ask students to retell the story using their own words, emphasizing the cause and effect relationships.

Winner – Prix des libraires du Québec 2017 international youth, for the illustration of The boy who swam with piranhas Add a speech bubble to each image to Floyd in which he explains what he is thinking / doing and how he is feeling. Activity: Before revealing each outcome, ask students to draw what they think might happen based on Floyd's action. This activity encourages critical thinking and allows students to anticipate effects based on causes.

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Ragazzi, Biblioteca Salaborsa (8 April 2017). "2017". Biblioteca salaborsa (in Italian) . Retrieved 17 February 2020. In 2013, Jeffers illustrated the vinyl cover (a drawing of Nelson Mandela) for the U2 song " Ordinary Love". Jeffers also co-directed (with Mac Premo) the video for the U2 song "Ordinary Love". Two years later, Jeffers contributed video content to the band's Innocence + Experience Tour, creating the chalk drawings and collages for the "innocence" act of the show. [5]

Winner – The Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts 2014 Inaugural Hay Medal for an Outstanding Body of Work Look at the use of shadows in the illustrations. Can you draw some objects and their shadows? Could you draw the same scene at different times of the day? How would the shadows change? Write the story that explains how the different people / animals / objects got themselves out of the tree. Resolution that Ties to the Beginning: The story ends where it began, with Floyd and his kite. This full-circle resolution aids in understanding the sequence of events.

Look around your school grounds / local area. Is there a tree big enough to hold all of the items that Floyd threw up? This book is ideal for young children in an Early Years setting as well as in Key Stage 1 (ages 4-7 years) as it is a very simple story that is based around child humour. The story is great for questioning and getting children to imagine and come up with their own ideas. What’s going to happen next? How is Floyd going to be able to get the kite down? The story allows for lots of discussion and open-ended questions, children are fully involved in the story and they will find it so funny to predict what is going to happen next. I love how the end to the story is also left open-ended, allowing for even more discussion and encouraging children to use their imaginations! This story would be a great foundation for introducing story-telling; getting children to write their own endings to stories, or even for children in the Early Years to draw or use role play to tell their story endings.