Weekend Event: Dolls and Toys and Games - Crayola Ads 1956-58

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[murakozi.livejournal.com]

Dang. I remember back when I was in grade school, having the 64 color Crayola box was a really big thing. Most of us kids only had the smaller boxes.

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

Same! I finally bought a big box when I was an adult and have never used it.

Apparently crayon collecting is a thing. I came across an identification website that sadly mentioned one collector losing all his antique crayons in a house fire.

[pronker]

We made them last, too, even when they got broken and the paper got messy. I remember when the *gasp* Art Technique of turning the crayon on its side for big swathes of coloring seemed avant garde. I would hope this was about age three or so.

[progbear.livejournal.com]

Oh, the beloved 64 box! My sister and I got in big trouble for going into the kitchen, putting a handful of unwrapped crayons into a saucepan and melting them. We had the crayon “brick” for a long time; it was brown with a glittery streak through it, as the silver crayon was one of the ones we melted down.

[bradygirl_12]

My sister and I had the 64 with the sharpener! We did a lot of coloring back in the day. We did coloring books and created our own stories, some inspired by movies and TV, in art sketchpads. We were writing and drawing fanfic and fanart before we knew what it was! ;)

[almond-cakes.livejournal.com]

I also remember how the box of 64 crayons was a BIG DEAL! When we went to school, mom only bought us the box of 16. I even was envious of other students who had boxes 24. That 48 crayon box was nice too!

Finally, one year we did get a 64 box for at home. It was a joy to have all those colors! I remember wondering why spring green was called "spring green", and it wasn't till way later in my adult life, that I noticed that the first green of spring is just the color of a "spring green" crayon! :o)

It's funny that my own 3 children didn't color with crayons much. They always had them, and would use them, but their preferred coloring instruments were Prismacolor colored pencils. They also colored a lot with markers. I always bought them lots of different Crayola marker sets- the multicultural browns were a favorite as were the Crayola Color Changers markers.