history of crayola crayons

  I love crayons, mostly Crayola crayons. I guess I was little when I started loving art. Painting, coloring and all that. It would get me happy.

   I'd love to color, but when I had a box of Crayola crayons, believe me, I was happy to color all day. To get less stress about things.


  But, the history of the Crayola crayon goes way back. When did Crayola start making crayons?



It all started with two men, Edwin Binny and his partner C. Harold Smith. They started in 1903 with the original 8 pack of crayons that gave out to children of the poor for not a lot of money.

They had the colors: Red, Yellow, Orange, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Purple.

Later, came 16 colors, adding eight more crayon colors like: black, white, copper, red orange and many more.

Soon came a bigger box, adding more crayon colors that were pretty unique back in the day. Trying to remember all those colors, well....it just boggles my mind, but they got bigger soon.

They soon made 48 colors; first they placed it in a huge tin before moving it to a box. The box contained a crayon sharpener in the back. I would start getting into the Crayola big boxes until.....

It wasn't the only Crayola crayon box that had a built in sharpener, but 64 different colors. It was like a rainbow of different choices to choose from. Like Light blue to yellow green, even a color named after food like salmon, mango and even peach.

Then came the big boys. The favorite of all the boxes. The one I would choose over the others. Why? Not only did it have a sharpener like the others, but had a rainbow of different colors to choose from.


   Sometimes, Crayola would change different name colors to please young children as well as children of heart.

    They even have people vote to change a name of a color. Recently, one was nicknamed 'Bluetiful.'

        There's even another box that contained over 120 Crayola crayons



    There are other brand of crayons around from:


    But for me, I grew up with Crayola crayons and loved them even to this day. I have coloring books, and Crayola crayons to keep me happy.

Even Crayola has twistable crayons where you twist and get more crayon for your buck.

Even creative artist would mix their own crayon colors, swirling them after breaking them apart and melting them together. Crayola already has something like that where a kid can do that. I would give a lot of Crayola products to my cousins children because I want them to experience a childhood that will last in their hearts forever.