I looked at the Crayola materials, then did my own thing. It is Kindness Week at our school, so I am reading kindness stories, and don't have time for a 20 min. video from Crayola also. But this was fun, and worked well: I showed grade 4 the emoji picture (I think that's Tuesday's theme) - the author and a picture with 4 emojis. I talked about it, then gave them a template with 5 blank circles, read Tucky Jo and Little Heart by P. Polacco aloud, and while I read the students filled in the circles with emojis reflecting how they were feeling at different points in the story. I have a portable white/magnetic board, and they hung them up on it. Fun and effective! I urged them to be creative and expressive and they were! With Kindergarten (not related to Crayola, except for the crayons and creativity), I read Mouse and Hippo by Mike Twohy, gave the students paper and crayons, and stopped the story at 2 points, for them to draw Hippo, and later to draw Mouse, before seeing how the characters in the book did that same thing. Really fun!
Elaine, Broad Brook School, East Windsor