Thesis statement: Crayons have a long history, are great for learning, and have many, many colors.

A. Attention-Getter: Did you know that Crayola crayons started with a box that

1. Today, Crayola makes 120 different colored crayons.

2. Crayons have had a long time to evolve, but do we ever really think about where they started from?

B. Establish Credibility: As a former child, I spent many hours using crayons while growing up, and I still use them today.

C. Preview Points: The goal of this speech is to inform you of the history of crayons, specifically Crayola, tell you how crayons can be helpful in learning, and give you some interesting facts about the colors.

2. Between 1949 and 1957, Crayola had 48 different colors of crayons, they introduced colors like maize, melon, and olive green.

a. One of the new colors was Flesh, which was later voluntarily changed to peach in 1962, due in part to the U.S. civil rights movement.

3. In 1903 Binney & Smith researchers discovered that there was a need for high quality, affordable wax crayons in schools, so they added pigments to their industrial marking crayons.

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