by Miranda E.
The first crayons weren’t really like what you think crayons are today. They were more like small sticks of colored wax, and were very stubby, and hard to use. Nobody knows exactly when the first actual crayons were first brought up, but we do know they were used in the mid and late 1700s which means they were probably invented in the late 1600s or early 1700s. Binney and Smith was one of the first companies to make crayons in the United States. Paraffin wax and pigment are the two basic ingredients.
This is how Binney and Smith and CrayolaR make their crayons. CrayolaR makes the paraffin wax and pigment and then delivers the wax to Binney and Smith in heated tanker-train cars. They are stored in two-story silos.
At the right time the wax is pumped into large, heated kettles inside the plant and mixed with more pigment and other ingredients.
Next, the mixture is pumped into a mold machine. This machine has thousands of holes, each shaped like a crayon. The mixture is put in the mold where it cools and hardens into the usual crayon shape. Then they are wrapped. The wrapper has the CrayolaR logo and the color name of course. Then it is packed into boxes and sent to stores. In the early 1900's Binney and Smith showed off slate pencils and dustless chalk. The first box of CrayolaR Crayons sold for 5cents. It included black, brown, blue, red, purple, green, orange and yellow.
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"Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life."
Pablo Picasso