Top 10 Essential Crayola Back to School Supplies

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.

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18 Count Doodle Scents Scented Markers: What's Inside the Box

I am super excited to see Crayola returning to scented coloring supplies! I loved all my scented Crayola items as a girl.  The Crayola Doodle Scents Scented Markers are markers based on characters with distinct smells. They can be used as a fine or thick tip. Crayola has been introducing more scented items lately including: PowerLines (look for that post soon), Pip•Scents, and Scentsations (not available yet, but in their catalog).  I hope they reintroduce scented crayons too. Some of the scents in this set are similar to the 1990's Magic Scent crayons. The markers are really pretty and feature cartoonist characters on them.  Crayola has been making markers more "fun" lately with lots of drawings and fun names.  The Crayola symbol on the markers is even in color.

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There is some mystery behind these markers however. I first saw these markers in June of 2015 at the Crayola Store in Kansas City.  It was the first time I had ever seen them.  I made sure I picked up two of each, one to play with and on for the collection.  The stand was deceiving however and had two cotton candy's on it.  So now I have 4 cotton candy's.  Lucky for me pink is my little girls favorite color. I went online to see if I could see more and to my shock I found there was actually a box of doodle scents, but they were not being sold as a box in the United States.  I tried to purchase them from Amazon, but Amazon said they could not sell them to my in my geographical area.  I did find them in the 2015 Crayola Product catalog, so hopefully later this year they will come out with a box. I would like to have all of them.

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