by Nahlah Abdur-Rahman
November 5, 2025
The initiative will encourage younger learners to make use of their inventive expertise whereas educating them.
Black Hollywood, from Questlove to Michael Rainey Jr., will be part of Crayola for its fifth annual Creativity Week to coach younger learners.
Going down from Jan. 26 to Feb. 1, Crayola will introduce these instructional actions to assist youngsters develop into vibrant thinkers. For subsequent 12 months’s festivities, a number of Black celebrities will lend their voices and skills to the multigenerational trigger. From astronauts to award-winning artists and sports activities stars, the lineup will even delight college students of all ages.
Beneath the theme of “Colour Evokes Creativity,” these groundbreaking creatives will assist Crayola increase engagement in faculties, properties, and studying facilities worldwide. With periods starting from team-building to music, Crayola helps youngsters’s holistic studying in quite a lot of sides.
On Jan. 28, Questlove will be part of illustrator Sean Qualls for an “Embracing Your Concepts” workshop. The writer and acclaimed illustrator of “The Concept In You” plans to attach with a youthful viewers, inspiring them to take flight with their creativeness.
Afterward that week, “Energy” actor Michael Rainey Jr. will converse with illustrator Rob Flowers on the significance of “Empowering Communities.” Rainey Jr. has used his platform earlier than to encourage excessive schoolers in his native Staten Island neighborhood; now, he takes his efforts to encourage a youthful cohort.
Because the signature activation of Crayola’s Marketing campaign for Creativity, this week intends to make studying a colourful expertise. Every exercise faucets into the inventive potential inside and past the classroom, fostering essential improvement expertise whereas embracing distinctive abilities. The inclusive studying actions additionally aligned with world curricula from the Nationwide Artwork Training Requirements to the AASL Nationwide College Library Requirements.
Alongside its star-studded lineup, it can additionally present free entry to assets, challenges, and academic movies to assist youngsters wherever they’re taught.
“We launched Crayola Creativity Week to infuse inventive experiences into the educating and studying of all topics,” mentioned Cheri Sterman, senior director of Training at Crayola, in a press launch. “Creativity is a vital life ability that helps everybody attain their full potential. Educators report that after taking part in Creativity Week, 80% of scholars elevated their inventive confidence, enthusiasm for studying, and curiosity.
Academics report that their lecture rooms radiated a extra joyous environment that fostered creativity after becoming a member of this system and that they elevated their understanding of how creativity improves studying. The influence this system has on college students and educators reinforces the significance of this world motion rising.”
Following its jam-packed week of studying, the Crayola Creativity Week will conclude with a world, live-streamed college meeting to rejoice one other 12 months of uplifting youth. Registration is obtainable now.
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