I do not know how this is my very fist Sharpie post EVER because I LOVE sharpies. But it is. This is the 30 Count Sharpie pack. There are 15 Fine Point Permanent Markers and 15 Ultra Fine Point Permanent Markers. The colors are included on the back of the box. If you know me you know I love when they include colors. I can not wait to use these markers to color. Sharpie ink is super bright and absorbent. These markers will bleed. It is best to color on top of something perishable or not important because it will be bleed through.
Crayola loves to make promotional packs of their products consisting of 3-4 items. In 2014 they came out with 3 Twistables crayons and 3 Dual Color markers for Walmart. Crayola had made Twistable crayons in the past, but they had never made Dual-Color markers. I have not seen them since. I wonder if it was to test it out to see how the product would do. I hope they make some of them in a big box soon.
The Crayola Wild Notes Pens came out in 2013. They are made to use with Wild Notes pads of paper. What I did not realize when I bought these items if you had to have the special paper to even use them. I wish the Crayola Store in Kansas City had the paper when I bought these. When they are used they reveal colors underneath the paper. I wonder what would happen if you colored the whole paper. It is like invisible ink. There are colors underneath, the pens ink need to come in contact with the paper to be revealed. Now I need to find some paper.
The No 8 Crayola Gold Medal School Crayons came out in 2000. It fits a box of 8 count crayons. I keep a box of crayons named by Crayola fans on Facebook in the box. The cover of the box is the same as the tin. This design is reminiscent of the original No 8 count box of crayons after Binney & Smith debuted the Crayola trademarked box and won the 1904 St. Louis World Fair in the An-Du-Septic dustless chalk catergory. The box is orange and has a coin in the middle that says, "UNIVERSAL EXPOSITION SAINT LOUIS UNITED STATES OF AMERICA." World Fairs started in 1851 and still go on today. I had not idea they still had them. They are now called EXPO's and are not held at regular intervals. At this time large structures would be built showcasing the technology of the Era. Before this time crayons were not really a big thing. They specified on the box that what crayons could be used for. It says, "SCHOOL CRAYONS FOR EDUCATIONAL COLOR WORK MANUFACTURED BY BINNEY & SMITH CO." This tin is such a fun way to celebrate the early history of Crayola.
Crayola classic colored pencils have been around for years. This set is ideal for teachers and parents. The size of the box gives enough variety while still maintaining an inexpensive price point. I have two other boxes that I've had for years and I will post them soon. This box is from 2016. The colors in the colored pencils have not changed, but the design on the wood has. It has always had gold lettering and the names on the individual pencils which I love.
I received this box from Crayola in exchange for an honest review, this blog post contains affiliate links.
Crayola came out with three special boxes to advertise the retirement of their Dandelion crayon and a contest to name a new blue. The boxes come in 24, 64 and 120 colors. They all feature the same text about the contest and about dandelion retiring. This will be probably the last time Dandelion is included in a box of Crayola crayons. I saw these boxes at Kroger stores, Target, and Walmart. These will definitely be collector boxes in the future.
The boxes feature "Name the New Color for a change to WIN!" on the front of the box. Some where on the box it also says "Last chance to get Dandelion!" These are what Crayola calls promo boxes because they are promoting something for the company.
The Crayola 5 A Day the Color Way set of crayons came out in 2003 along with the 5 A Day The Color Way campaign. The campaign was put out by 5 A Day the Color Way in partnership with Crayola and Dole. It encouraged educators to teach children to eat "5 or more servings of colorful fruits and vegetables" and to "develop healthy eating habits." The theme was "there's a rainbow on my plate." Corresponding crayons and a coloring book came out to signify all the colors to eat. There was also lesson plans, activity sheets, produce department tours, games, books, posters, and classroom kits. One of my favorites was an activity sheet to track all the colors they ate during the day. How easy would it be for kids to mark the color they ate that day? (source: 5 A Day The Color Way archived website) I personally have a unit in preschool where I show kids all the vegetables and take them to a farm. They love it and end up trying more than they would have. We have also gone on grocery store tours too which my kids also love.
Crayola has a line of mini gel pens! How crazy is that? This set of Crayola Mini Gel pens comes in two colors, purple and sky blue, and was released in 2001. I bought it from a fellow Crayola collector. I loved gel pens when I was a teen.
The Crayola Sally Hansen limited nail polish line came out in July 2017. Crayola also collaborated with Clinique this year to come out with Clinique Crayola chubby sticks. This is not the first time nail polish has been made with the Crayola name, but it is the first big collaboration they have done for nail polish.
I am so excited to share with you today Crayola's back to school goodies for 2017. The Silly Scents is a new line this year just in time for school. I have come up with a list of 25 ideas with the help of some teacher friends to use these products in the classroom! Do you have any to add to the list?
I was wondering if scented items were allowed in classrooms. The teachers polled said to use caution when using scented items in the classroom and would make sure kids and parents were okay with scents. There are some school districts that do not allow scented art supplies. But a majority of the teachers loved scented items and used them in their classroom often. The silly scents could be used for all sorts of learning activities and incentives. Many teachers preferred scented markers over crayons.
Here are the 25 Ways to use the Crayola Supplies in the Classroom
1. My favorite use was this awesome Caddy for VIP table by Erica. What is a VIP Caddy you ask? Erica picks one student a month that has shown tremendous growth during the year. They are allowed to use the Caddy instead of their own supplies. They can also pick two friends that is able to use it with every day. This allows all the students to have access to the Caddy.
2. Another teacher friend, Rachel had a bunch of ideas. She would put them in hercreative closet. She wrote a guest post the closet last month. Basically is an open closet for the kids to use. The only rules are to clean up and do not take more than what you need, and share with others. This really encourages creativity with her students.
3. Rachel would also set up an art station to let kids explore/play/create with very few limits and boundaries.
4. Rachel says the scented markers/crayons to foster creativity! They could be used for nutrition or color and sort units in primary and preschool grades. They could also be used for in upper grades for more abstract concepts. Students would tell about themselves using the markers/scents and develop a key. (i.e. green = calm, yellow = happy, blue = nervous, purple = shy... etc. - talk about their 'insides' using colours).
5. Alicia would use big scented markers to make anchor charts The students get excited to help her fill in parts of it because using the scented markers are a special treat. They are a great motivator for participation.
6.Meg "stars" her students' assignment notebooks daily with a smelly marker. The students are always looking to see what scent she used. For special days (ex. Packer games!) she uses coordinating colors or make fun shapes like a pink heart on Valentine's Day.
7. Tara uses scented markers on my reward chart. Students can turn in tickets and use a scented marker for the day instead of a pencil.
8.Katy uses scented markers to do work checks in the classroom students enjoy figuring out what "smelly marker" she's using each day when I do a quick work check.
9. Caitlyn thinks the scented art supplies would be great for free drawing time during indoor recess.
10. Jennifer uses scented markers to mark her students papers and sings to them about the markers. She sings "Smell on the way to your mailbox" as she puts them into their cubbies. 11.Kelli loves using colors in the class room for writing, spelling words, sight words etc to help kids use more areas of the brain.
12. Megan has a smell and spell center where students can use scented markers to write phonics based words.
13.Carissa would use the Silly Scents for an evidence activity in high school! She would cover the name on the marker with washi tape. Then she would have a student make a sample mark and then draw what they think the scent is. The students would switch papers so everyone has a different color than they started with. The other students would guess the scent based on the picture and then smell. They then would write a short paragraph giving evidence for what scent they think it is. She would later have discussions about if the drawing helped or distracted. Was evidence conflicted? How did they include evidence in their writing create mentor sentences. How can we relate this to writing an essay?
14. Carissa would also use the Silly Scents for a persuasive writing/speaking assignment. She would tell them the company wants to add one more scent to the box or they want to replace a scent. They need to come up with the new scent and pitch it to the class. Why is it better? Who would want it? Is it a needed color? (I think this is one of my favorites!)
15. Jennifer would create a Roll-a-Smell Station and a mystery word station. For the roll-a-smell station she assigns a number (1-6) to each “smell”. The students roll the die to find out which scent to use to write a word from their word list. For the mystery word station students write a white word on their papers. They then color over it with markers or crayons.
16.Jeanine uses scented markers to help motivate and teach kids cursive writing. After her class learns a letter, she goes around to each students paper, rewrites it in the scented marker and the students trace over it. When they are done with their practice sheet, they come up and pick a scented marker from the basket to star their work!
17. Many teachers said they loved theSuper Tips for anchor charts, prepping activities and grading papers.
18. Colored pencils and crayons are great for the classroom for every day work. The 24 colored pencil pack gives enough colors for variety and are not too expensive.
19.Michele used Crayola Colored Pencils for every mapping activity she did with her classroom. The used the colored pencils to color code and categorize as we learned about different regions!
20. I love the washable markers both scented and classic colors. They are super easy to wash off a surface. I use them all the time with my kids. I take a paper towel, wash the surface and the marks come off very easily. We use them in coloring books or on blank paper. I love blank sheets of paper for kids. Their imagination can take them anywhere they want.
21.Caitlin uses washable markers on chart paper to help show that each student in a team is contributing. For example, one student writes in blue, one in green, another in orange, and the fourth in purple.
22. I love the the Crayola Super Tips for detailed coloring. I love the variety in the 50 pack.
23. I would use the Scented Markers in a Fruit unit for preschool. I would have them corresponding pages for the scented markers and crayons. I would also have physical fruit on them on hand to touch. I would also have books about the fruits to read. We would make fruits with pattern blocks. We would then visit a farm to see the fruit growing.
24. I also have a Crayola backpack full of markers on hand for my preschool kids. I pull that out anytime we need to color. It is nice because they are all in one spot. The kids always like finding the scented markers
25. Amie likes to have her class paint with the markers. Just dip a pointed brush in water and blot off. Then smudge it into the marker for a fun painted effect.
I hope you enjoyed all these ideas to use these Crayola back to school supplies. Let me know which ones you are going to use. Do you have any other ideas?
