I can not believe I do not have this box of twistable colored pencils on here. This box of 50 twistable Colored Pencils came out in 2021. The colors do not match the regular colored pencils. Some of them were a bit tricky to name, but I figured it out. The color palette is super pretty.
I can not believe I do not have this box of twistable crayons on here. This box of crayons come out in 2020. I will have to find out when the first box came out. The colors match their wrapped counterparts perfectly. The color palette is super pretty.
The other day in our facebook group someone asked about the 72 Silly Scents Crayons and Colored Pencils. I knew I had to get them because there were new colors in the box. I bought them on Amazon. The other day I did a YouTube video showing the colors and the swatches for all the colors. The crayons were easy to match up with the colors on the back of the box, but the colored pencils were really hard. I would have thought I could tell by the smell, but alas, the scents are not very easy to tell apart. They do not "smell" like their color very strongly.
Colored Pencils: fruit punch, cherry, banana, peach, cinnamon, orange, popcorn, flower, mango, pineapple, lime, grass, spearmint, watermelon, apple, pine, bay breeze, cola, blue berry, grape, wild berry, plum, lavender, fruit smoothie, cotton candy, bubble gum, birthday cake, roses, strawberry, pumpkin pie, chocolate, root beer, licorice, coconut, vanilla, fresh air
Here are the swatches for the crayons and colored pencils. The colors did not match up very well with each other. For example the pine crayon color and pine colored pencils did not match up at all. Some of the crayons did not want to color on the paper either such as the cola. This set was nice, but not as cool at the Magic Scents.
I have been asked quite a few times whether I like Mr Sketch Scented crayons or Crayola Silly Scents Scented crayons better. The verdict, Mr. Sketch scented crayons are slightly better. For the purposes of this study I looked at the 12 count boxes from each company. I received the Crayola Silly Scents from Crayola for review. I bought the Mr Sketch box.
The samples from each are above. They were basically the same colors, and almost similar scents.
I also made a YouTube video showing the Mr Sketch vs Crayola Silly Scents showdown. 1. Box Design-Mr Sketch wins the box design award. The box opens like a standard tuck box. It is relatively simple to open. The Crayola Silly Scent box is very hard to open. There is a tab on the box which tears easily when trying to open. The also somewhat opens, but I do not think that was the intended purpose for that design. And do not get me started on the 24 count box. It takes a good five minutes just to get the crayons back in the box.
2. Laydown-Crayola has a slight edge in this category. The crayon laydown is very nice and much like their other crayon products. Mr Sketch goes on thick, but may be more prone to smudges and flaking because it goes on too thick.
3. Color Vibrance-Mr Sketch wins this category. Maybe it is because the laydown is thicker, but the colors are definitely more vibrant.
4. Cost-Mr. Sketch and Crayola tie in this category. The cost is relatively the same depending on where the crayons are purchased.
5. Colors and Scent Availability-Crayola and Mr Sketch tied in this category. There were some colors in Mr Sketch that I loved, like Vanilla, etc...but there were some I liked in the Crayola Silly Scents better. I did not like Stinky cheese from the Mr Sketch or licorice from the Crayola Silly Scents line.
6. Smell-Mr. Sketch won this category. Why? I could smell the scents a lot better. But I must confess that once more than one scent was put down on both papers the scents became a little jumbled.
Overall Mr. Sketch won the best crayon in the Mr. Sketch versus Crayola Silly Scents, but by a narrow margin. I would buy either one and your kids would love them. I can not see where these two companies take their scented crayons.
Best Scented Crayon
Now that I have answered the winner for Mr Sketch vs Crayola Silly Scents, the best scented crayon box goes to Crayola Magic Scents from the 1990's. Why? The laydown was great, the colors were amazing, the box design was simple and the most important reason the smells were very distinct. I could smell every smell as it hit the paper. Whatever Crayola did with those crayons they need to do again. They are hands down the best scented crayon out there.
Crayola has many different Twistable crayon sets. The Crayola Fun Effects! Twistables crayons contain 8 neon crayons, 8 metallic crayons, and 8 rainbow crayons. The rainbow crayons consist of 4 colors. I call them quad color. Crayola has made other multi color art supplies, True to Life Colored Pencils and Tri-Color Markers. The multi color produces a fun effect on the paper which really excites kiddos. The neon and metallic colors are also really fun to color with. I definitely recommend this over the standard Twistables pack.
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.
