Crayola Back to School Essentials Pack Review and Giveaway

Hi neighbors,

Crayola and My Blog Spark sent me the next products that I would like to share with you! Crayola is getting GREENER. Not the color green, but they are doing even more to "go green". They are using solar power to make their Crayons, making markers from recycled bottle caps, and using reforested wood for colored pencils.




From Crayola:

"You might have noticed while you were doing your back-to-school shopping that packages of Crayola crayons, markers and colored pencils have special icons calling out the way each product is lessening its impact on the environment. These affordable and "green" back-to-school essentials include:

• Crayola Markers - Thanks to new, innovative ways to manufacture Crayola markers from recycled bottle caps, "black" is the new "green!" Crayola markers will now have black barrels instead of white, which allows for more recycled plastic to be used and gives a second life to more than 1 million pounds of plastic bottle caps. Plus, switching to black barrels keeps hundreds of tons of plastic out of landfills each year. Available in 10-ct. Broadline Classic Colors, 10-ct. Broadline Assorted Colors, 10-ct. Fineline Classic Colors, 8-ct. Washable Broadline and 8-ct. Washable Fineline.

• Crayola Green 24-ct. Crayons - The quintessential school supply found in virtually every elementary classroom will be made with the power of the sun. More than 26,200 solar panels will convert sunlight into electricity, generating the energy required to make 1 billion of the 3 billion crayons Crayola makes each year, which equals 60 million 24-ct. boxes. Mother Earth will be smiling down on every forest green, pine green and jungle green crayon that rolls off the assembly line!


• Crayola Green Colored Pencils - Committed to protecting the rain forests since 1987, all Crayola colored pencils have been made from reforested wood instead of wood sourced from tropical rainforest or endangered species. For every tree used, a new tree of the same species is planted. The 12-, 24-, 36-, and 50-ct. boxes of Crayola Colored Pencils will be among the first to carry the "Eco-Evolution" callout on their packaging."

My children were overjoyed to receive the Crayola Green Back to Schools Essentials pack. It includes Crayola Green Crayons, Crayola Green Markers and Crayola Green Colored Pencils. My 9 and 13 year old girls love to color, draw and create. My 15 year old son also enjoys drawing. And of course I have to admit I enjoy coloring with the children. During each of my pregnancies I went through a coloring stage with the other children. We would just cudlle up together either in bed or on a couch and share a coloring book to color. As a matter of fact during the delivery of my last daughter, I can still picture the midwife sitting on the floor coloring with my children while I was in labor. The older children still remember that!







While we have been traveling one of my daughters would color a page and then date it and add what city and state she was in when she colored it. Sort of a unique way to remember your travels!




Thank you Crayola for all the fun and memories you have helped to create in our family. And Crayola and My Blog Spark are going to send the winner of this giveaway a Back to School Essentials Pack just like mine.

Mandatory Entry:Tell me in a comment some memory you have of using Crayola, either as a child or as an adult with your children. You do not have to be a blogger to enter, but you must leave a valid email where you can be reached should you win. This giveaway will end 9/3 at 11:59 pm CST. The winner will be chosen using random.org and will be notified by email. The winner will have 48 hours to respond.

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Disclaimer: I received no monetary compensation for this post. I did receive a Crayola Back to School Essentials Pack for review purposes. All quotes are from the Crayola website or email. All thoughts and opinions are mine.