EXPO dry erase markers have been around forever. Well whiteboards have been around since about 1975. I am not sure when the first box of EXPO markers were made, but by the 1990's they became a staple in classrooms and office buildings. All teachers use EXPO dry erase markers every day. They work very well. They come off with minimal effort. Here is a classic 8 box of EXPO dry erase markers. They come in many different sizes from 6, to 12 to 16 count.
Up & Up are school supplies that are made by Target. I have the washable markers, #2 pencils and watercolors. There are more supplies such as crayons, glue, pencil sharpeners, index cards, colored pencils, pocket portfolios, construction paper, scissors, erasers, dry erase markers, compass/protractor, spiral notebooks, sticky notes, highlighters, mechanical pencils, binders, composition notebook, pocket folder, school caddies, paper trays, paint and marker pads, drawing paper, printer paper, drawing book, paper clips, legal pads, glue sticks, and zipper binders. They make a lot of stuff. Target often does this with many items. They have store brands. It is usually cheaper than the other brands. The quality is pretty good. I have bought up & up for my kids school supplies before. I also have a box of crayons, but I do not have a picture yet. I will post those when I get those taken.
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Here is the color information for the markers. The watercolors are not named.
Color Information
Boxes: 10 Up & Up Washable Markers, Classic Colors What's inside the box: pink, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, black, gray, brown
Purchase Information: Received from Target Where to buy: Target.com
Collecting Information
These supplies from Up & Up would be great supplies to collect. They will probably change over the years and may entirely disappear. It is interesting they put on the back of the box of markers and watercolors they are not manufactured or distributed by Crayola.
Supplies: 10 Up & Up Washable Markers, Classic Colors, 8 Up & Up Watercolors, 8 No. 2 Up & Up Pencils
Other Boxes: See opening paragraph
Year: 2017 (pencils), 2019 (markers and watercolors)
I wonder why it has taken Crayola so long to realize they could enter the school supplies market with their own core products. They own the space with colored pencils, chalk, crayons, markers, and paint. Why not expand to pens, pencils, dry erase markers, highlighters and permanent markers? Before Crayola contracted out much of this work to outside vendors, but recently has brought it back in house and will be releasing all of that for teachers. I can see them really dominating in this field. And if I were the other school suppliers in these markets I would be scared.
These are the Number 2 pencils Crayola came out with in 2018. They feature graphite encased in a wooden casing with colorful latex free erasers. The No 2 on the pencil refers to the HB scale of the pencil with H being super light and B being very dark. The number 2 is usually HB, in the middle of the two. I am super excited Crayola is making regular pencils now!
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?
Hi I am Rachel Poetker. I am a primary school teacher in British Columbia, Canada. Nothing brings me more than watching my students fall in love with learning. I love all things crafty and DIY and I am an unashamed organization-addict. (Really, there is no space that cannot be organized!)
In my classroom there is one space that students flock to over and over throughout the year, the Kids Cupboard. This is the cupboard space at the back of the room that houses all of our ‘fun’ art and craft supplies: paints, pastels, chalk, foam sheets, stamps, paper, and more. Most of these supplies were found at local garage sales, clearance aisles, dollar stores, or online classified ads! I have found that people are pretty generous if they find out that supplies are going to an elementary school classroom.
I am super blessed to have a large storage cupboard at the back of my classroom. Inside are all of our communal supplies: paints, paper, chalk, pastels, pipe cleaners, stamps and even (gasp) glitter! While some of it is ‘teacher only’, I have intentionally set out the biggest portion of the cupboard to be used for everyone. At the beginning of the year I lay out some boundaries for the cupboard and teach students to be wise consumers of the supplies inside. Together we create ‘rules’ for the cupboard so that the supplies are used and enjoyed, not wasted. Here are a few of the rules that this year’s class came up with:
1. Clean up after yourself (leave the cupboard tidy, clean your supplies)
2. Put back anything that can be used again
3. Don’t take more than you need
4. Leave enough special supplies for others (Teacher’s note: things like pipe cleaners and pom-poms tended to get used up quickly, this ‘rule’ helped to conserve them)
5. Share what you have
It takes a few weeks for students to understand how to clean up after themselves in a way that is acceptable to me and our janitorial staff. However, I rarely help them with the clean up or creation process. This cupboard is a place for students to create (and clean up) independently. I think that both of those processes create great moments of learning. I definitely guide and teach student how to clean up paints, pastels, and glue properly, but they are left to do this on their own.
We use the Kids Cupboard throughout the day. It’s great as an early finishers’ space. Students can begin an independent creative project with very little direction from me. We also use the cupboard during Science and Social studies to enrich our learning. For example, when learning about local ecosystems this spring, one group of students decided to add a painting to their written report and another created a small model out of clay and paper mache.
I believe that when students are given the chance to develop their creativity as a result of free-play and exploration with art supplies, it can positively impact other subject areas as well. I’ve seen it happen. I have loved seeing some of my students who claimed to “not like art” enjoy having time to create and express themselves with very few rules and guidelines.
How do you manage the art supplies in your classroom? Do you have any art supplies in your personal classroom? I’d love to hear how creativity has impacted the learning process (positively or negatively!). Let me know in the comments below.
Hello, I'm Fern Smith of Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas guest blogging on Jenny's Crayon Collection blog. When I first started creating my coloring book series, I had some negative feedback about them not being educational. These people had never step foot in a classroom, let alone spent time with young, primary students. Today I'll touch on my five most important reasons that children should have time to color. If you would like to read more, I invite you to visit my blog, Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas.
So, the big question... Why? Why should children, between the ages of 5 and 10 years old be allowed to color?
* First instinct as someone who was once a child, because it is fun.
* Next instinct as a mom, because it is fun.
* Third, as a teacher, because it is fun.
* My fourth thought, as a human being, because it is fun.
* My fifth point, WHY are we even asking this question? Sadly schools are all about OVER-TESTING, we need to bring back some more F.U.N.
Period end of discussion. No, not really, I have more to say, but you might see the trend in my thoughts, "because it is fun!"
In a world that now sells ADULT COLORING BOOKS at every grocery check out stand, we have PROOF that many generations were denied this pleasure, this wonderful, creative, stress relieving amazing pleasure! Like puzzles... how many of your students have no idea how to start a puzzle? To sort the edges, to clump by color? Sorry, I wander, that will be a post for another day.
Five Reasons Elementary School Children Should Color
1. Improved Handwriting
- Children need hand strength and dexterity to hold and manipulate a pen or pencil. Using free coloring time can allow children to develop muscle strength and eliminate the need for future correction of an incorrect pencil hold.
2. Coordination - Coloring is a favorite pastime activity for children, so we can use that excitement to better develop their eye hand coordination.
3. Relaxation - In our new, technologically advanced world, children have images and sounds bombarding them 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.... coloring allows children time to decompress. The soothing nature of coloring helps aid in learning self-relaxation skills.
4. Concentration - Concentration is one very important skill that comes naturally to a child coloring. Children that spend their time coloring learn patience and develop a sense of pride in the accomplishment of a finished product.
5. FUN - Yes, coloring is academic and necessary for younger, primary children, but it is also fun for your intermediate students. In our OVER-TEST-DRIVEN classrooms, these children are still 9 and 10 years old. NINE.AND.TEN.YEARS OLD.....life will become challenging soon enough for our students. A 10 minute coloring brain break, or 20 minute indoor recess coloring break will not kill them, or your data.
There you go, my personal top five favorites, but yet, there are still more.... self expression, creativity, color recognition, therapy for feelings and frustration, motor skills, the list goes on and on. However, mull this over.....
With over 12 million adult coloring books purchased in 2015, don't you think we need to bring coloring back for our children?
I have created many Coloring eBooks that are available in my TpT store. Even against some early criticism, I held firm in my believes that children need time to color and express themselves. When you go to my TeachersPayTeachers store, you can even sort by Free to try a free page or TEN for yourself!
It's been a pleasure to be here today for Jenny, I invite you to visit my blog and say hello!
Back to school is fast approaching. I was so excited when Crayola sent me a box of supplies to review. I included some of the ones they sent me and added some of my personal favorites. Here is my list of my top ten Crayola back to school items to help you navigate the Crayola aisle at the store. There is an added bonus of the number one teacher item from Crayola. I was surprised to see what it was. My background is a preschool teacher and a mother of two little ones, a girl age five and son age three.
