1. A History of Crayons
Crayola brand crayons (compare prices) were the first kids crayons ever made, invented by cousins, Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith. The brand's first box of eight Crayola crayons made its debut in 1903. The crayons were sold for a nickel and the colors were black, brown, blue, red, purple, orange, yellow, and green. The word Crayola was created by Alice Stead Binney (wife of Edwin Binney) who took the French words for chalk (craie) and oily (oleaginous) and combined them. .
Today, there over one hundred different types of crayons being made by Crayola including crayons that: sparkle with glitter, glow in the dark, smell like flowers, change colors, and wash off walls and other surfaces and materials. .
According to Crayola's "History of Crayons" .
Europe was the birthplace of the "modern- crayon, a man-made cylinder that resembled contemporary sticks. The first such crayons are purported to have consisted of a mixture of charcoal and oil. Later, powdered pigments of various hues replaced the charcoal. It was subsequently discovered that substituting wax for the oil in the mixture made the resulting sticks sturdier and easier to handle. .
The Birth of Crayola .
In 1864, Joseph W. Binney founded the Peekskill Chemical Company in Peekskill, N.Y. This company was responsible for products in the black and red color range, such as lampblack, charcoal and a paint containing red iron oxide which was often used to coat the barns dotting America's rural landscape. .
Peekskill Chemical was also instrumental in creating an improved and black colored automobile tire by adding carbon black that was found to increase the tire tread life by four or five times. .
Around 1885, Joseph's son, Edwin Binney, and nephew, C. Harold Smith, formed the partnership of Binney & Smith. The cousins expanded the company's product line to include shoe polish and printing ink. In 1900, the company purchased a stone mill in Easton, PA, and began producing slate pencils for schools.
The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon Gent. was written by Washington Irving in 1819 and published in 1820. ... The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon Gent. established Irving as one of the first literary artists of the United States. ... The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon Gent. allowed him to become a full-time writer. ...
During art the kids were told that once they finished up the projects they were working on last time they could go and start something else for example they could get crayons and draw. ... Kimberly decided she wanted to draw, so she went over to were the teacher has her supply material and took some drawing paper and crayons. She then went back to her seat with her paper and crayons. ... She took out the crayons she thought she would need, which consisted of blue, black, green, yellow, red and purple. ... She also doesn't have a problem sharing because one of the other children was drawin...
Among those reinforcers are; crayons, shoestring, sitting on the couch in the library, Burger King and a 10-minute walk. ... This sheet shows Joes success or failure by tallying the number of crayons he has earned.. ... When Joe returns from first period he will count the number of crayons he earned and mark the appropriate number on the daily tally sheet for first period. He has a chance to earn from 0-4 crayons. ...
In one episode of The Simpsons, it is discovered that when Homer was younger, he stuffed a full box of 24 crayons up his nose, and then sneezed. He thought that all the crayons had come out, but it turns out that one crayon was left and it was ever so slightly touching his brain. This crayon caused Homer to become stupid. The local Doctor discovers the crayon and removes it and Homer is a genius. ... He has the crayon placed back up his nose to where it once was. ...
Another example of the prominent symbolism is the crayon portrait of Miss Emily's father which is hung "on a tarnished gilt easel before the fireplace.... His crayon portrait shows that Miss Emily believes her father is still with her and watching her. The crayon portrait also represents Miss Emily's refusal in accepting the fact that her father is dead, and moving on. ...
In the years 1819-1820 Irving published his newest work "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent." Geoffrey Crayon, like Diedrich Knickerbocker, was another pseudonym for Washington Irving. ... He toured the southern and western United States and wrote "The Crayon Miscellany" (1835) and A Tour of the Prairies (1835), an account of a journey, which extended from Fort Gibson, at that time a frontier post of the Far West, to the Cross Timbers in what is now Oklahoma. ...
It has been some time since companies like Crayola Crayon, makers of children's coloring pencils, have become "culturally correct-. In the crayon box there used to be a color called "flesh- and it represented the white skin tone - more or less. ...
In Katherine Romano's article she introduces the concept of "webcentricity" and defines it as "using the Internet and technology to support a school's teaching and learning environment." Celebrations school, founded in 1996, in Florida actually uses this educational technology philosophy as the bas...