Jenny's Crayon Collection: Brand

4 Count Crayola Crayons

In the 1990-2000's Crayola let companies make custom 4 count and 6 count promotional boxes for their brands. There are many more than shown here, but here are some fun themed Crayola 4 count crayon boxes from Oscar Meyer, Mother's Banana Boat, Energizer, Chili's crayons, Joe Corbi's and Smuckers. Some of them are regular crayons some are special Crayola crayons, metallic and Techno Brite. The Chili's crayons are custom named.

Collecting Information

These are collectible crayons because they were made for a certain company and no longer around. Some of them are very hard to find. I will update as soon as I find them.
Boxes: Banana Boat (1998), Talent Search Techno Brite (1998), Smuckers Toppings Techno Brite (1999), Energizer Metallic Crayons (2000), Mother's Washable Crayons (2000), Joe Corbi's (2003), Macaroni Grill Crayons (2003)
Other boxes:
Year: 1998, 2000, 2003
What's inside the box:

Banana Boat: hot magenta, laser lemon, violet, cerulean
Talent Search Techno Brite: megahertz maroon, cyber space orange, floppy yellow, circuit board green
Smuckers Toppings Techno Brite: megahertz marron, infra red, transistor yellow, world wide web yellow, point & click green, web surfin' blue
Energizer Metallic Crayons
Mother's Washable Crayons: red, yellow, green, blue
Joe Corbi's: red, yellow, green, blue
Chili: Chock-a-lot Shake, Pepper Pal's Red, Lemonade, Blueberry missing Banana Berry, Dreamy Creamy Orange, Sour Apple, Chili's

Purchase Information: from fellow collectors
Where to buy: eBay
Style Numbers: 52-0004 (Banana Boat), (Talent Search Techno Brite), 52-0006 (Smuckers Toppings Techno Brite), 52-8804 (Energizer Metallic Crayons), 52-7604 (Mother's Washable Crayons), 52-031 (Joe Corbi's), unknown (Chili's Crayons)

Code Numbers: 52-0004-0-202 (Banana Boat), (Talent Search Techno Brite), 52-0006-0-211 (Smuckers Toppings Techno Brite), 52-8804-0-200 (Energizer Metallic Crayons), 52-7604-0-200 (Mother's Washable Crayons), 52-0314-0-200 (Joe Corbi's), (Chili's Crayons)

UPC Numbers: 071662876043 (Mother's Washable Crayons), unknown (Chili's Crayons), None on the rest; Banana Boat, Talent Search Techno Brite, Smuckers Toppings Techno Brite, Energizer Metallic Crayons, Mother's Washable Crayons, Joe Corbi's

Manufacturing Location: USA

8 Crayola Crayons 3M Bandage themed

As part of a campaign in ...Crayola teamed up with 3M Active Strips to make a special box of crayons that were designed to look like 3M Active Strips Brights colors. The box included 6 FUN colors and 2 color 'n smell crayons. The box was attached to a box of 20 New 3M Clear Seal bandages.

Collecting Information
Boxes: 8 Crayola crayons in 3M Active Strips Bright's adhesive bandage colors, 6 fun colors and 2 color 'n smell crayons
Other boxes: none known
Year: ?
What's inside the box:

crayons: hot magenta, radical red, outrageous orange, unmellow yellow, screamin' green, blizzard blue, flower shop, baby powder

Purchase Information: received from fellow collector
Where to buy: eBay
Style Numbers: 52-0008
Code Numbers: 52-0008-0-210
UPC Numbers:

Manufacturing Location: USA

Ford Crayola 8 Count Crayons with Coloring Book

One of the coolest things about collecting crayons is not only seeing the history of crayons, but the history of so many other aspects of history. How? Because Crayola often partners with other brands and companies to release crayon boxes and such. In 1996 Crayola released a "Ford" branded box of crayons with an accompanying book. This book was a comic book with a few coloring pages focused on recycling. The next year Ford partnered with Crayola and Sesame Street to release a road trip/car safety coloring book. There are so very beautiful color pages. Elmo and Big Bird are on the cover with their seat belts. During this same time period Folksam, Saab and Ford worked on a seat belt reminder. Now that is in every car today. I wonder if the timing of this coloring book set came at the same time as the seat belt reminder for marketing purposes. Here are the crayon boxes and coloring books.

This blog post contains affiliate links.