Jenny's Crayon Collection: No. 2 Pencil

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)

DPCI (Target's locating code): 081020541R00 (pencils), 081043074R00 (markers), 081043071R00 (watercolors)

UPC Numbers: 07258710085 (pencils), 842463139411 (markers), 8122960022259 (watercolors)

Manufacturing Location: China (markers, watercolors), Indonesia (pencils)
Where to buy: Target.com

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!

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Up and Up School Supplies from Target

Crayola No. 2 pencils: What's Inside the Box