Crayola Washable Crayons

I noticed that no one else has written about crayola washable crayons and thought I would be able to tell you about these crayons. In New York in 1899 Edward Binney and his cousin C Harold Smith owned a factory that made shoe polish and printing ink. They produced slate pencils for schools. In 1902 they had developed a non toxic colourful crayon and crayola crayons were born. A box of 8 coloured crayons cost 1 nickel. I am sure a lot of you will have used crayola crayons. The washable crayons are very similar to the wax crayons I used as a child. I am not sure if they were washable then. If ... more

My daughter is 22 months old and from a very early age has loved to colour and paint (well, scribble anyway). I bought her loads of crayons and pencil crayons, and at first all was well. But then the cheeky little thing decided to colour my walls... and I'm not joking! She would happily scribble all over our cream walls. If ever there was a rogue crayon, she'd spot it! Fed up of repainting the walls, when I saw these crayons, my prayers were answered and I promptly swapped her crayons for these ones! They cost exactly £2 from Asda for a pack of 8 crayons with the following colours: blue, pink ... more

CRAYOLA BIG WASHABLE CRAYONS. I bought these for my 2yr old Vicky as i was fed up scrapping crayon off my floors.Also as she leaned on her crayons too hard they all kept snapping.Crayolas big washable crayons are double wrapped and chunky so they dont break as easily when vicky uses them.As they are chunky they are easy for little hands to grip. The crayons come in packs of 8 and sixteen there are 16 colours in total,all the colours of the rainbow as well as black,brown etc as well.The crayons are non toxic which is good if your kids are like mine and like to try everything in there mouth. A ... more