Crayola is the most familiar crayon and marker company in the world, having helped generations of artists express their creativity and imagination. They make nearly 3 billion crayons each year —about thirteen million each day — right here in Lehigh Valley. Crayola has been making crayons for more than years and along the way they grew beyond crayons as they found innovative and fun ways to create art products. Today, the company manufactures a wide variety of art materials to help children creatively express themselves.
The company also produces 3 million markers, , jars of paint, , pounds of modeling compound, and 22, Silly Putty eggs every day. Crayola is proud to be among the outstanding manufacturers who call Lehigh Valley, PA, home. They operated an old gristmill on the Bushkill Creek in Easton, grinding slate found in nearby quarries to make one of its first products — slate pencils for schoolchildren. After finding a need for colorful, durable and affordable crayons in schools, the first Crayola crayons rolled off the assembly line in The first box of crayon colors sold for a nickel.
Today, the company makes the majority of its Crayola products in the Lehigh Valley. With its corporate headquarters and three manufacturing facilities in the Lehigh Valley where crayons, markers, paints, modeling compounds and Silly Putty are made, Pennsylvania has been the home of Crayola LLC — a subsidiary of Hallmark Cards.
In , the company built its company headquarters and an acre manufacturing facility in Forks Township, PA, just a few miles away from its original facility. Crayola also operates a manufacturing facility in Bethlehem, where paints, modeling compounds and activity kits are made. For that reason, they incorporate social and environmental priorities and practices into its Crayola products and relationships with consumers, customers, suppliers and employees. They encourage all to play a role in protecting and greening the environment.
They also strive to be landfill-free and are also looking forward to using percent renewable energy in the making of their products. The Crayola Factory, a hands-on creative discovery center, opened in to help revitalize downtown Easton. With more visitors, came more restaurants and stores; and today, downtown Easton thrives.
Its twenty-eight colors include celestial blue, golden ochre, rose pink, and burnt sienna. The box is marked, "No. The rear of the box depicts a girl coloring a piece of art on an easel and lists the crayon colors contained in the box.
Both the packaging and the color names and crayon colors change over time reflecting social and cultural trends. Crayons are icons of American childhood that recall our collective memory for coloring both inside and outside the lines. Affordable and easily obtainable, they have transformed art education and fostered creativity in schools and homes, providing color to children for generations. Nominate this object for photography. That wonderful smell that brings back happy childhood memories.
The smell that makes adults stop and open a box to sniff it when they pass Crayons in the store. KTO Mon, See our privacy policy. Collections Search Search for Show only items with images.
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