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What languages are on Crayola crayons?
The languages are English, Spanish and French.
What is the third language on a Crayola crayon?
Fun Fact #3: Each crayon has three languages on them and they are English, Spanish, and French. Fun Fact #4: There have been 237 BILLION Crayola crayons produced to date.
Are Crayola crayons numbered?
Crayola crayons have come in many colors since their introduction in 1903. The number of colors was increased to 96 in 1993 and to 120 in 1998, though with thirteen crayons being retired along the way, the total of colors is 133.
How do you celebrate National Crayon Day?
Each year, on March 31st children and adults alike, pick up their favorite colors for National Crayon Day. Opening up a box of crayons opens up a world of imagination and hours of fun. Wax and chalk-based crayons have been used by artists around the world for centuries.
How many Crayola crayons are made each year?
3 billion crayons
Crayola produces nearly 3 billion crayons each year, an average of twelve million daily. That’s enough to circle the globe 6 times!
Are there any languages that Crayola products are in?
At Crayola, we recognize our products are globally used by kids and kids at heart. We now offer multiple languages on some products and packages. The languages are English, Spanish and French.
How many different colors of Crayola are there?
We currently use 12 different colored labels for CRAYOLA Crayons. The labels are purchased through an outside vendor and made of either vat dyed construction paper or printed paper and reforested wood. We manufacture more than 120 different Crayola Crayon colors, however, we do not have a crayon label to match each of these colors.
How did the Crayola crayons become so popular?
History of Crayola crayons. Since the introduction of Crayola drawing crayons by Binney & Smith in 1903, more than two hundred distinctive colors have been produced in a wide variety of assortments. Crayola became such a hit because the company figured out a way to inexpensively combine paraffin wax with safe pigments.
What are the names of the different brands of crayons?
Initially this was just one of the brands produced by Binney & Smith; other crayons were produced under names such as Cerola, Cerata, Durel, Perma, and Boston, among others; but the Crayola brand proved the most successful, and was produced in two lines: Crayola Gold Medal School Crayons and “Rubens” Crayola Artists’ Crayons.