Jenny's Crayon Collection: Patents

Crayola Color Wonder, On The Go Coloring: What's Inside the Box and Review

I was so excited to receive the Crayola Color Wonder On-The-Go coloring sets from Crayola. I was going buy at Target, but held off and the next day I found out we were getting them to review. My kids especially love the PJ Masks and Paw Patrol sets. A couple of years ago my kids started watching the Disney Channel show PJ Masks and there were no toys at all for the show. My kids and I love the show because it has both boys and girls that turn into pajama clad superheroes at night with their magical bracelets. We found some PJ Mask's pajamas for their Halloween costumes and bracelets for Christmas. Now they get to color their favorite superheroes in a REAL coloring book! They are excited. I can not tell you how many "coloring pages" (ones I made from images from the internet before there were books) I printed for them to color for PJ masks. There are also PJ Masks giant coloring pages, coloring books with stickers and activity books.

What's in the box and how does it work?
The Color Wonder Color-On-The Go sets come in 4 themed sets; Paw Patrol, Disney Princess, PJ Masks, and Shimmer and Shine. The sets are very well put together and include 3 themed markers each. All of the markers are interchangeable. How does the Color Wonder work? The marker only colors on the specialized paper, because the paper contains chemicals that react with the marker ink. Read more about the patent information here. What is really cool about this set is it has negative space areas which is used to hide fun patterns, outlines of buildings, background objects, and masks on the PJ Masks outfits. Watch the video to see what is in the boxes and my daughter coloring Owlette.

My son's coloring: Crayola Color Wonder On-The-Go: Paw Patrol

My daughter's coloring: Crayola Color Wonder On-The-Go: PJ Masks, her favorite character Owelette. Notice she is wearing the bracelet too. She wears it every day to school.

Review
What did my kids think? To say they loved them is an understatement. My son carried his, he claimed the Paw Patrol around the house and colored all the pages. He mostly scribbled on them and colored really quickly, but he loved it. My daughter loved the PJ mask one, and has almost colored all the pages in her set. She loved finding the hidden objects in the pictures.

What did I think? I think these are really cool and would be idea for taking to the doctor's office or a long card ride, two things we do often enough. And would be a much better alternative than a screen. I love that the booklets can be opened and closed and there is space for the markers inside. This way the markers will not end up all over the car and the doctor's office. This happens a lot with other marker packages that can not be closed up when they are open. I love that they are mess free and only color on the paper. My son was confused the other day when he was coloring with them and accidentally "colored" on his blanket. I had to reassure him that the blanket was not dirty because the marker did not leave a mark on his blanket.

How could it be even better? I would love refills for these books. My kids colored through the pages pretty quickly. I would also maybe like to see a few more colors per set. They are interchangeable, but my daughter only wanted to use the ones that came in the set.

Collecting and Shopping Information

Crayola changed the Color wonder design. They made it more of a white background overall and emphasized the Mess Free feature of the markers.

Boxes: Crayola Color Wonder On-The-Go Character Themed Sets, Paw Patrol, Disney Princess, PJ Masks, Shimmer and Shine
Other boxes: none know at this time
Year: 2016
What's inside the box: colors are not named approximate colors
Paw Patrol: red, blue, yellow
PJ Masks: red, green, blue
Shimmer and Shine: light pink, goldenrod, light blue
Disney Princess: sky blue, light pink, light purple
Purchase Information: Provided by Crayola for honest review
Where to buy: Any place that sells Crayola products
Style Numbers: 75-0150 (Paw Patrol), 75-0151 (Disney Princess), 75-0152 (PJ Masks), 75-0153 (Shimmer and Shine)
Code Numbers: 75-0150-0-900 (Paw Patrol), 75-0151-0-900 (Disney Princess), 75-0152-0-900 (PJ Masks), 75-0153-0-900 (Shimmer and Shine)
UPC Numbers: 071662501501 (Paw Patrol), 071662201517 (Disney Princess), 071662101527 (PJ Masks), 071662101534 (Shimmer and Shine)
Manufacturing Location: Markers from China, Set from Vietnam
Patent: US Patent 6124377 Marking system

2016-Crayola Color Wonder On-The-Go-Disney Princess

2016-Crayola Color Wonder On-The-Go-Paw Patrol

2016-Crayola Color Wonder On-The-Go-PJ Masks

2016-Crayola Color Wonder On-The-Go-Shimmer and Shine

10 Count Crayola Color Wonder Markers: What's Inside the Box

We love Crayola Color Wonder at my house. We have the Planes, Cinderella, and a Mess Free coloring pages coloring books. I also just got some Crayola Color Wonder On the Go to review which I will be posting about in a few days. Color Wonder Mini Markers are markers that only color on color wonder paper. They react with the paper to produce a color, but only with this paper. The markers do no make a mess on anything else. Earlier today my son was coloring with them and had the coloring book over his blanket. All of the sudden he said, "I got some marker on my blanket". I told him that the color does color on his blanket. He seemed to believe me after a while. I think these will be a staple at our house for a while.

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Crayola Neon 3D Sidewalk Chalk: What's Inside the Box

I have had one box of Crayola 3D sidewalk chalk before. I have not put it up here yet, it had chalk crayons in it too. It was a lot of fun to use. We drew all over the sidewalk and it really looked 3D. Special chalk is needed, just the glasses to make it 3D. It is a lot of fun for kids to play with. Be warned, get a set of glasses for each kid that wants to use it.

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Crayola Crayon Factory Review: What's Inside the Box

I was given the Crayola Crayon Factory by Crayola in exchange for an honest review. I do not know if it will surprise you, but I also own the original Crayola Crayon Maker and a Crayola Paint Maker. I will be putting those on the blog soon. I love the latest iteration of the crayon maker. This one is so much easier to use than the original, requires less steps, is smaller, and creates less of a mess. The crayons are placed in the top of the device, a mold is placed in the melting chamber, and a button is pushed to start the process. Easy as that. The old crayon maker had to have a special light bulb to work. It took me a few months to find the light bulb, and then the crayons could only be made into other crayons shapes that were half the size of regular crayons.

This toy is very useful for teaching children. It teaches them principles about color blending, recycling of old crayons and different states of matter. Here is the video of the crayons we made with the Crayon Factory.

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The crayons from the Crayola Crayon factory can be made into cars, hearts, and puppies. Here are the crayons we made.

Crayola Air Marker Sprayer Review: What's Inside the Box

I was given the Crayola Air Marker Sprayer by Crayola to give my honest review. This is honestly one of my favorite gadgets from Crayola. And I am really saying that. I have only seen air sprayers used by street artists and never been able to use one myself. I have been eyeing this one for a while. It was fun to finally be able to use one.

Here is my son's very first creation made with adult supervision. We had a ton of fun. For our creation we used all the colors in the box and one of the stencils provided. He even liked spraying it without a stencil. The stencils were a little sticky after use, but that did matter much once they dried.

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Crayola Color Wonder Planes Coloring Pad and Markers: What's Inside the Package

My mother bought the Crayola Planes Color Wonder Coloring Book for my son. He did not use it as much at first, but now that he is older, he loves it. He loves the Planes movies and Dusty. The only frustrating thing for him is that he does not understand why when he colors the clouds white, they do not change color. I know they purposely did this, but it seems a little much in my mind. The kids should be able to color the clouds the color they want.

Color Wonder are special markers that will only color on Color Wonder paper. We have a few Color Wonder sets and I bought a blank coloring pad. The only drawback is when the paper runs out the markers will not work anymore and more paper will need to be bought. It is definitely more expensive than normal paper.

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5 Count Crayola Paint Brush Pens: What's Inside the Box

The Crayola Paint Brush pens come in red, yellow, green, sky blue, purple. There are other colors, but you have to buy a large pack to get those colors. I have seen the Crayola Paint Brush Pens for a while now, but decided to buy them finally. We love them. These pens are marketed as a paint brush pen, but the patent is the one that applies to markers. They are really markers with a long flexible tip, which is really cool. It is nice to use for calligraphy and lettering applications. We really like them and wish they were available in more colors.

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8 Count Crayola Poster Crayons: What's Inside the Box

Crayola Poster crayons were first made in the 2000's. How do these crayons work? They let kids color on dark paper and the color shows up! An opacifier or a reflecting filler is added to the crayon. This opacifier helps the color show up on dark surfaces. The patent is also the same patents listed on the construction paper crayons.

My kids love coloring on dark color papers, and love all the products that Crayola has to do this, from the Gel Markers, to these Crayola construction paper Crayons. The marks from the crayons are also a lot more vivid on white paper also. These are the large size crayons perfect for coloring lots of space.

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Erasable Colored Pencils: What's Inside the Box

The Crayola Erasable colored pencils are the first time Crayola made colored pencils erasable. I bought the Crayola Erasable Pencils way back in the day, in 2002. I recently bought some more this last year to see the difference in the pencils. The box and pencil design have changed. The pencils are more plain now, they removed the swirly lines from the pencils. I think it's a great idea to have Erasable Colored Pencils. It can really help when coloring and when things are colored on, which happens a lot around here.

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Crayola Drawing Crayon: What's Inside the Box

I received this box of Crayola Rubens Drawing crayons from a friend. It is my oldest box of Crayola crayons. The box is incomplete, but I love it. I love all the little details in it and especially love the old used crayons.

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This Ruben's box is from 1945. What is really neat about this box is it is one of the original boxes, but a later iteration from the early Crayola line up. The Rubens 24 color boxes were available as early as 1906. An iteration of this box is no longer available. I am really happy that I have one of them, even if it is a later iteration. There are many important items on this box. Ruben for one and the direction he is looking, on different box iterations he was looking different ways. This box features, Binney & Smith Company New York on it. It has the Gold Medal symbol included.

Who was Ruben, the man printed on this box? He was Sir Peter Paul Rubens, a "Flemish Baroque painter".

20 Count Crayola Super Tips Markers: What's Inside the Box

I got these 20 count Crayola Super Tips markers as a gift. The fine tip markers are my favorite markers, and Super Tips did not disappoint. Sadly I let people use these markers and they got lost. This is not the first box of Super Tips, I know they came out around the late 90's or early 2000's. An one thing that super bugs me that I say every time is these markers are not labeled with color names. That drives me crazy.

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8 Count Crayola Metallic Markers: What's Inside the Box

I have been wanting to buy the Crayola Metallic Markers for a while now, but had not because they were so expensive. Some places they were up to 10 dollars. I finally found the markers available at Target for 2.99 and could not refuse. I love these markers so much, they are so much fun to draw with. They are super shiny and can be used on black or white paper, something that can not always be done with Metallic type markers. In the patent it says "On black surfaces it will reveal itself as being opaque and metallic" and "on white surfaces, a tint of color is observed with flecks of silver".

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I was reading up on the patent and interesting enough Crayola does not own the patent, it was patented by Dri Mark Products, Inc. in 2003. My guess is Crayola acquired this patent someone in this decade and is now making markers with it. The binder agent for the marker is water based so it is not permanent. The wick tip provides a way for the "flow of large particle size pigments" so the markers can be seen on black paper and a way for the ink to be transported so the "metallic particles" will not settle out or have to be stored a certain way. For example the Fabric markers have to be store on their side. The patent references aluminum particles embedded to make the metallic effect. Not many Crayola products contain metal, the Silver Swirls did. The packaging does say it is non toxic, so the aluminum particles are not dangerous. An interesting note is in the patent it says the marker can be used to draw on human skin and will give the effect of a "temporary tattoo". I am so going to try this.

16 Count Crayola Pip-Squeaks Markers: What's Inside the Box

Crayola Pip-Squeaks markers came out in 2004, this is the very first box. The Pip-Squeaks feature unique trademarked names. They took a turn from the regular coloring of Crayola products and are more fun, with colors such as toy poodle black, and little boy blue. They are meant for children and are very cute. Since then there have been many spin-offs of this marker, Pip-Squeaks in Disguise, Pip-Scents, and Minions themed Pip-Squeaks. Crayola even released Pip-Squeaks colored pencils. They are a hit at this house, they are my son's favorite coloring tool.

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The first box of Pip-Squeaks markers was a gift from my husband, the second that I have featured is a gift for my kids. I was trying to declutter the house and got rid of the packaging. I do not know what year the second box is. But they can be easily told apart. The earlier Pip-Squeaks marker was predominately red, black and green. The later version changed to the text color to the color of the marker and added a picture of Pip to each marker and a TM after each color name. The packaging of these two were the same. There is a picture below of the packaging. It is plastic. This year Crayola changed the packaging to a cardboard box.

8 Count Crayola Window Markers: What's Inside the Box

The Crayola Window Markers came out in 2001 and are still being manufactured. Originally they were packaged in a zippered bag. The marker is applied to the window and the color is very vibrant. To remove the ink I use window cleaner.

My husband bought me the Crayola Window Markers a few years back. I loved them and used them often. Eventually however after many years of use they no longer work. I threw away the ones that did not work, and kept a few that did. Now these ones do not work. I am going to keep them, just for the collection. I love them a lot. The new ones do not seem to write as dark and I prefer the windows crystal effects markers or windows crayons. Even though the colors names are the same. I wonder if they are the same ones and I am just remembering how they draw differently. It is interesting that they are marked as washable, but have a stain advisement on the back.

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6 Count Crayola Fluorescent Markers: What's Inside the Box

The Crayola fluorescent markers came out in 1990 with the rerelease of the fluorescent crayons. The crayons had been around for years, but this is the first year the markers came out (I think because of the -200 code number). I found the 1998 box of Crayola Fluorescent markers surprisingly this year at a teacher supply store. I was shocked. The box is from 1998 and it still works! I had to pick them up even though they were a lot more money than a normal 6 pack of markers. I have always been partial to bright colors.

It is interesting to note that the 1990 markers are washable whereas the 1998 markers are not washable. I wonder why Crayola changed this detail for the two markers. The names in both boxes are the same. I wonder if they made two lines of fluorescent markers washable and washable for years. The style number 58-7848 belongs to the washable fluorescent markers and the 58-7748 belongs to the non washable fluorescent markers.

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The code number is not on the back of these boxes, but on the inside flap on top. I forgot about it when I was taking the picture and will get a picture soon. This is one my oldest box of markers, even though I bought it only this year. I am sad there is not a good website to find information on Crayola marker history. Hopefully with time and with people sharing their photos, the story of the Crayola marker can come together more.

Crayola Gel Markers and Gel FX crayons: What's Inside the Box

I love coloring on black and dark paper, and these Crayola Gel markers and Gel FX crayons make it super easy to do. When the strokes made on paper with the marker dry, the color lightens. This process can be seen visually and is very fun for kids to watch. The Gel FX markers and crayons came out in 2001 and the markers are still being in 2015.

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I am so excited to also feature the crayon box from Stacy Hodges crayon collection. We found each other on the facebook group and she has a lot of Crayola products I do not have and has taken some pictures to share. I am so excited to feature some of her collection on the website along with mine! I wish I had some of my own crayons to try out, it sounds like they would be really fun to color with on dark paper.

Crayola Color Switchers and Over Writers Markers: What's Inside the Box

The Crayola Over Writers and Color Switchers markers are really cool markers that can change colors with a special over marker. Part of the hard things with coloring is the whole light versus dark especially with markers. When coloring the lighter color has to be colored in first and the darker color colored around it. It is very hard to put a light color on top of a dark color. With these markers words can be drawn in dark colors, suns added to the sky, lines drawn for patterns, the possibilities are endless.

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Both the OverWriters and the Color Switchers operate on the same principle, but have different descriptions. The OverWriter Markers consist of "over" colors which replace the "under" colors. The Color Switchers have a "secret, hidden color". "When you lip flip the marker and apply the special color switcher, watch the magic begin". The difference is the Over Writer Markers can be use interchangeably, but the Color Switchers can not. They have to be used with the certain undercolor since they are attached to one another.

Crayola Silver Swirls: What's Inside the Box

The Silver Swirls box from Crayola is my favorite box ever! The Silver Swirl line started in 1990. I think it was a failed attempt at a glitter crayon. That is what I got from reading the patent. I bought these crayons when I was really young and used them all the time. I loved how shiny and smooth they were on the paper. There was nothing else like it and there has not been anything like it since. Like I said these are my absolute favorite. I really wish Crayola would bring these back.

I think I have figured out why they were sadly taken out of the market. In the patent it mentions a "metal-swirl version of a Crayola® crayon which contains fine particles of aluminum; however, while this type of crayon yields a swirl effect and alters the typical pigment, such a crayon does not impart a glitter effect to a substrate." Were silver swirls the first attempt at glitter crayons? Were they were taken off the market because they contain aluminum?

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Crayola Magic Scent Crayons: What's Inside the Box

The Magic Scent line of crayons is one of my favorites from Crayola. It was one of the first boxes I ever owned. I still have my original box from my childhood. The magic scent line came out in 1993. The 1993 boxes featured outdoor smells and food smells. In 1994 probably due to backlash from parents whose kids ate the crayons they changed the scents to non food items. I personally like the food ones better. They just smell better. I have also found most of the boxes on eBay. I love all the different scents in the boxes, especially Fresh Air. All the boxes are slightly different. The 1993 box has a strawberry and grape on the front, the 1994 16 count box has a rose and a pine tree on the front, and the 8 count box has a strawberry and grape on the front of the box.

How do they work? The US Patent 5039243, fragrance releasing crayons explains it very well. The patent says there are microcapsules on surface of the crayons, and when they the crayon is used to color the microcapsules break and the smell is produced.

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