where can i find information about crayons?
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Since its inception in 1903, the Crayola brand has grown into one of the most respected and recognizable brands in the consumer marketplace.\n\nCurrently the company makes more than 120 different crayon colors as well as an array of materials to stimulate children’s creative development. And thanks to innovative technology, we offer Crayola products that sparkle with glitter, glow in the dark, smell like flowers, change colors and even wash off walls and other surfaces and materials.\n\nEdwin Binney and C. Harold Smith started the Binney &Smith Company, which invented crayons, in 1885. \n\nThe first boxes had 8 crayons (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, brown, and black sticks) and were sold for 5 cents a box. \n\nThe word crayon means ‘oily chalk’ and was created by Edwin Binney’s wife, Alice, when the crayon was first invented.  By 1920, the Binney & Smith Company was selling a wider array of crayons and paints. \n\n\nCheck the links for more info!
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Try http://www.infospace.com
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http://www.chem4kids.com
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Take a look at what's available at:\n\nhttp://www.paperdolls.org/\nhttp://marilee.us/paperdolls.html
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I THINK YOU SHOULD TRY GOOGLE.COM
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http://www.docrafts.com/ \nits a very good site for all kinds of projects difficult and easy and they have explained things to be done step wise... also if you have a colour priter get the print outs for reference ... hope your kiddo enjoys it !!!
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http://www.davisonpublishing.com/textilebluebook/default.aspx\n\nhttp://www.textileweb.com/buyersguide/
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How about an art activity?  Here are a few:\n\nCategory: Crayon resist Grade level: K - 3 \nProject Focus:  Magical Leprechaun Footprints\nIntegrated Subject:  Saint Patrick’s Day\nArt production:  Students will trace their shoes on a piece of paper.  They will fill the shoe outline with various crayon colors.  Then they will paint over the entire paper with green and white paint.  This creates a resist drawing.\nArt Criticism:  Students will be evaluated on their use of colors, materials, and on their overall effort.\nArt Aesthetics: The students will discuss their thoughts on their paintings.\n\n\nCategory:  WatercolorGrade level:  2 - 5\nProject Focus: Watercolor Butterflies\nIntegrated Subjects: Science\nArt production: Student will draw two butterflies and demonstrate the wet on wet technique on one and the wet on dry technique on the other.\nArt Criticism: Students will be evaluated on their use of the watercolors, how well they followed directions, and by their overall effort.\nArt Aesthetics: Students will discuss which technique they liked the best and why.  Also, they will have a discussion on which one gave them more control.\n\n\nCategory: WatercolorGrade Level: 1-6\nProject Focus: Sunsets \nIntegrated Subject: Science \nArt production: Students will create either a landscape or ocean scene by using oil crayons, stencils and watercolors, after which they will show and explain their work. \nArt Criticism: Students will be evaluated by being given an oral quiz on the vocabulary learned, and on their use of media and overall effort. \nArt Aesthetics: Students will discuss their finished works and give their reactions to them \nIntegrated Subject Vocabulary Words: Landscape, Sunset, Horizon\n\n\nYou may also want to check this out:\n\nhttp://funschool.com\nOn this website you can find printables for coloring, stickers, and a section about origami.  Children can play crossword puzzles and word searches.\n\nhttp://www.nytimes.com/learning\nThis site provides excellent web connections for teachers, students, and parents, and is helpful for incorporating current events into lessons
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article - 1\n\n\nCrayola Crayon History \n------------------------------------------------------------\n\nCrayola brand crayons 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. \n\nToday, 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. \n\nAccording to Crayola's "History of Crayons" \n\nEurope 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. \n\nThe Birth of Crayola \nIn 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. \n\nPeekskill 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. \n\nAround 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. This started Binney's and Smith's research into nontoxic and colorful drawing mediums for kids. They had already invented a new wax crayon used to mark crates and barrels, however, it was loaded with carbon black and too toxic for children. They were confident that the pigment and wax mixing techniques they had developed could be adapted for a variety of safe colors. \n\nIn 1903, a new brand of crayons with superior working qualities was introduced - Crayola Crayons. \n\nEdward Binney & Harold Smith \nCo-invented Crayola crayons - Invention Dimension. \n\nCrayola® Crayons \nIn 1903, soon after developing them, Binney & Smith sells the first box of eight Crayola crayons for one nickel. The box includes black, brown, blue, red, purple, orange, yellow, and green.\n\n\n============================================================\n\n\narticle - 2\nYoung children express their creativity more than anything else with their box of crayons. This has been true for nearly a hundred years, and is largely due to the efforts of one American company. Edwin Binney and Harold Smith founded Binney & Smith, Inc. in New York City in the late 1800s. At first, they specialized in industrial colorings---including the pigments that made country barns red and automobile tires black. Later, they began to make slate pencils for students. At the St. Louis World Exhibition in 1902, they won a gold medal for their new product for teachers: the first dustless chalk. While touring schools with these two items, company salesmen saw a need for safe, affordable colored crayons. \n\nAt this time, wax crayons were big, dull-colored and clumsy, and used mainly in industry. But Binney & Smith used a combination of paraffin wax and industrial pigments to create crayons that were kid-friendly. In 1903, the first yellow and green box of eight "Crayola" crayons appeared (t
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ummm...try chasebadkids.com...they usually ave pretty good backgrounds/layouts.
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http://www.desertusa.com/colorado/coloriv/du_coloriv.html
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www.about.com\nwww.ask.com\nthese are my favourites
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try finding the information on this website
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Wikipedia.com   \nthey have everything
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enchantedlearning.com!!! It has everything you can imagine.  I'm a preschool teacher and use it all the time.
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http://www.craigslist.org/edu/\nhttp://www.cocokids.org
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I just found some at www.scrappindaisy.com and also at www.kidscraftsonline.com.  \n\nHope that helps!