FFW Crayola Crayons May 2006

Flair For Writing May, 2006
Crayola Crayons
Editor: Megan Rose Princess Megan Rose 10 Years
Assistant Editor: Angel Angel


Hello Everyone! How are you? I am so ready for summer. My husband and I just got my plants out today. Angel is working on her web site of graphics and writing. Summer is just around the corner. Yes! Angel and I hope to meet this summer. That would be the best thing ever!

We are going to write about Crayola Crayons for the newsletter. Angel loves to do graphics and art. Check out the above sig by Angel! Cute, huh? I love to color. I have Cinderella, Bambi, Barbie and Flintstone coloring books. I use colored pencils for my cards and scrapbooking projects. Angel is an artist. Everyone knows that and she does a beautiful job on graphics. So, we decided to write about Crayola Crayons. Angel and I each done some research on the internet and here is what we come up with. We hope that you will enjoy this issue.

Here is what Angel found out.

In 1864, Joseph W. Binney founded the Peekskill Chemical Company in Peekskill, N.Y. This company made products in the black and red color range such as lampblack, charcoal and paint that contained red iron oxide which was often used to coat the barns all over America's landscapes.

The Peekskill Company also created an improved and black colored automobile tire by adding carbon black that was found to increase the increase the life of tires.

In 1885, Joseph's son, Edwin Binney and nephew Harold C. Smith formed the partnership of Binney and Smith. They included shoe polish and printing ink. In 1900, the cousins purchased a stone mill in Easton, PA and made slate pencils for schools. The cousins then researched non-toxic and colorful drawing mediums for children. They had invented a new wax crayon used to mark crates and barrels but it was loaded with carbon black and too toxic for children. In 1903, safe, non-toxic crayons were invented with superior working qualities and crayons were invented.

Here are some of the colors that were invented for the crayons: Blue, Brown, Green, Violet, Orange, Red, Yellow. In 1949, other colors were added: apricot, blue violet, burnt sienna, carnation pink, cornflower, flesh1, periwinkle, magenta, Prussian Blue 2, pine green, lemon yellow, melon, thistle, yellow green and turquoise blue. There are now 120 colors. Thank goodness for Binney and Smith!

Thank you, Angel. This was colorful!

This is what I found out:
Joseph Biney's wife came up with the name Crayola. In 1904, Binney and Smith won the Gold Medal at the St. Louis Fair for their dustless chalk but it appeared on Crayola Crayon boxes for the next 50 years or so.

In 1948, Crayola released the box of 48 different colors. In 1958, the 64-color assortment of Crayola crayons debuted with a built in sharpner. In 1977, Binney and Smith bought Silly Putty. In 1987, Crayola introduced washable markers. In 1992, Crayola introduced Model Magic, a modeling compound. In 1993, Crayola introduced 96 colors of crayons in a box. In 1999, Indian Red became Chestnut. In 2003, The World's largest Crayon was introduced at Crayola's 100th Birthday Party in Easton. It weighed in at 15,00 pounds, 15 feet high, 16 inches wide in America's favorite color: Blue!

Angel and I hope that you have enjoyed this issue. Feel free to e-mail us at anytime. I do hope that you will be coloring with children or just enjoy coloring. Until next time. Hugs: Megan and Angel

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