Crayons and coloring books have been around for years. Any mother will tell you they are the best things since sliced bread! However, you say “you color in the lines and you are done. What’s the big deal?” How can something so simple, inexpensive and ordinary be so important? Because of those exact reasons.
Simple means the crayons can be used for so many different activities or uses and they have no limitations other than being used up! You don’t have to worry about them not fitting, working or missing parts. They are easily replaced or replenished. They don’t make a mess, don’t require batteries and no cost for up-keep. They have one use – to color. That’s it! Now you take it and turn it into something amazing!
Inexpensive – a large box of crayons for less than $3.00. You can probably find them for a buck at any dollar store, watch for sales or use coupons. Crayons are a common item at yard sales. They are a quick and easy gift to give and get. A whole lot or just a few – you can still create with what you have! Have you ever seen the amazing smile and twinkling eyes of a child that opens a box of beautiful, 64 different color crayons, all in their own space and sparkling up at them? That is a smile you will remember and even worth whatever you spent to buy them!
Ordinary – come on….they are nothing but wax. How much more ordinary can you get! No moving parts, nothing to add, nothing to attach, nothing to loose or break off!
Click here to see how they make crayons!
It is pretty interesting and amazing! Every one can use crayons no matter the age or skill level. No instructions required! Your hands know what to do!
Crayons and Coloring Books are a Necessity!
Crayons are the basis for so many crafts – many that if you DON’T have crayons, you can’t do the craft! They are the perfect “babysitter” for kids of all ages. Keep a set in a “secret” place to use only for those times when you need “extra” time for yourself or for something you need to do without kids. Take out these “special” books and crayons and the kids will be in total amazement for the new stuff and love working with it. The size of coloring book, the subject and even the type is a major fact in keeping the children’s interest. Coloring books these days have puzzles, word games, seek-and-find, and other “projects” for childhood mental occupation in addition to just coloring pictures.
Make games and projects with coloring books and crayons. After coloring the pictures, cut it out or cut parts out and make a collage on a blank piece of paper. Cut out the objects to use as characters in a story and create their own story with the colored pictures. Cut out lots of smaller items, glue them to a blank piece of paper and make an “I Spy With My Little Eye” project. Once the paper is filled with objects, write 10 objects to look for then switch pages and everyone gets to spy a whole lot of things! Make gift tags, cards, note papers or just fun wall decorations!
All grand parents love receiving colored pictures from their grand kids -but why not add a little extra…using a blank piece of paper, have your child glue some colored pictures on the top half and write a note to the grand parents on the bottom half! Talk about a great addition to the refridgerator collection!
Crayons and coloring books are educational
Kids can make their own ABC book – find an item in the coloring book that starts with each letter of the alphabet and glue it to a blank piece of paper. Fill the page with coloring book pictures starting with each letter. Once all 26 letters have been found, put it together and your child has his/her first book of learning! They’ll know their ABC’s before you know it! Make a book about color, shapes, sizes. Make a Color and Shapes book – Choose the shapes, have your child color them and then cut them out and you write “green square”, “red circle” underneath and put together as a learning book. How about a counting book? One red square, two balls, three ducks, four sunshines etc.
What’s your child’s favorite “thing”? Do they love horses, cars, Bugs … get a coloring book specifically about their favorite thing and they’ll love coloring and won’t even realize they are learning as they play!
Check out the “King of Crayons” Crayola Crayons web site at Crayola Crayons and see an abundance of projects, games and many fun ways to use crayons. And versitle? You bet! If you don’t have a coloring book – use plain old blank paper! How about coloring on paper bags? Tablets, composition books – the options are limitless only to your own imagination!
Crayons and coloring books are a valuable commodity. No car with children in it should be without CCB’s – crayons and coloring books. No house with children in it should be missing CCB’s. Every grandparents house, every day care, every place where there are children should be properly equiped with these most essential child care items.
Crayons and coloring books – something so simple, something that’s been around for so long – who ever thought they were so important and such a necessary commodity for the educational and whimsical growth of our children!
