Jenny's Crayon Collection: Crayola My Way

Goodbye to Crayola's Dandelion crayon

It is officially time to say goodbye to Crayola's Dandelion. On March 30, 2017 Crayola announced that it would be retiring Dandelion. They had been teasing for a few days they were retiring a color. They had everyone #ShareYourFave and guess #WhosLeaving. The only hint they gave was it came from the 24 pack of crayons. My honest opinion was that it was going to be Green Yellow. Green Yellow is not very bright and I just do not use it much.

Crayola was meaning to announce during a live stream from Times Square. (I wish I could have gone to. That would have been my dream come true) But someone found a special box at Target with the name of the color being retired. They posted it on Twitter. (I will post as soon as I get one.) It is hard to hide such big news, but it is a shame they posted it online.

What is Dandelion's history?

Dandelion was first introduced in 1990 in the 64 crayon box. That year they retired blue gray, green blue, lemon yellow, maize, orange red, orange-yellow, raw umber and violet blue. They added the colors cerulean, dandelion, fuchsia, jumble green, royal purple, teal blue, vivid tangerine, and wild strawberry. (Info found on http://www.crayoncollecting.com/ccolor19.htm). That year also marked the beginning decade of some amazing crayon boxes; Hot Fluorescent, Silver Swirls, GemTones, Metallic, Changeables, Star Brite, Magic Scent, Colour Bursts, and Pearl Brite to name a few.

Make Your Own Crayola Box for Every Occasion, 9 Different Ideas

Crayola recently introduced Crayola My Way, a part of their website where you can order custom Crayola boxes. The 8 count boxes need to be ordered in groups of 5. I thought of some really fun ideas to customize the boxes for all ages. Check out the 9 ways I thought Crayola custom boxes can fit into anyone's life. Crayola's customer service also told me they will offer a discount to bulk orders.

See my review of Crayola My Way here.

See what's inside the Crayola My Way boxes here.

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1) First Birthday. The boxes can be give away to all the guests at the first birthday party or they can be presents for a 1st birthday party, but changing the child's name to From:---.

3 Easy Steps to Turn Your Childs Art Into a Box of Crayola Crayons

We recently got the opportunity to order some Crayola My Way crayons. My daughter loves drawing so I thought it would be perfect to have her draw a picture, pick out her box design, and uploaded the picture on the Crayola My Way website. We ordered the box and we got them right away. It was super easy and she loves her crayons.

Here are the three easy steps to make your own box of crayons featuring your child's artwork.

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1. Draw a picture

Crayola My Way Review

Crayola is ready to join the newest internet craze by personalizing crayon boxes! Crayola My Way is a site where customers can personalize 8 count boxes, 64 count boxes, and art sets. Crayola first tested a form of personalized crayons in 1990's. They had a contest for choosing new color wrapper names. This is where names like purple mountains majesty, denim, shamrock, and macaroni and cheese came from. They loved it so much, they ran more contests, State Crayon names, Facebook crayon wrapper names and many more. Currently at the Crayola Experience guests can customize crayon wrapper names. But Crayola My Way is the first time customers can personalize a Crayola crayon box. I was so excited when Crayola contacted me to do an honest review of this product. I was able to pick out some boxes of my very own to design and here they are.

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BoBunny paper in background

Crayola My Way: What's Inside the Boxes

These are the Crayola My Way personalized crayons boxes. I wrote a whole review here. This post is going to focus on what what is inside the box and what they mean to the collecting world.

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What do these boxes mean for the world of crayon collecting? In the world of crayon collecting there are two main type of collectors, those that collect individual crayon colors and ones that collect all the crayon boxes out there. I lean toward the second group of people, but specialize in the specialty crayon boxes, because I would not have space to collect them all nor the money.