• Archives

  • Categories:

Crayola Factory

A couple weekends ago I went up to the Crayola Factory in Easton, PA with my friend Stephen.

The “factory” was pretty much a big activity center geared toward kids. There were some cool displays about the history of Crayola, and a little demo factory with a whole presentation on the basics of crayon and marker creation.

Retired colors: Prussian Blue, Flesh and Indian Red

A bunch more retired colors (for less political reasons) – Violet Blue is no more?!

This demo factory was pretty neat, there were cameras on what the fellow presenting was doing as he made a new batch of red crayons and some orange markers

And I got to wrap my own crayon! Prior to the invention of the automatic crayon wrapping machine they hired nearby families to manually roll them… I can only imagine the paper cuts, ouch.

After the tour we hit the Crayola store, where I got a big box of crayons, an 8-pack of nice dry erase markers and some pink silly putty.

The hoards of kids were a bit much, after the factory was some nice pub food at The Allentown Brew Works, where I enjoyed a tasty pumpkin ale, nom! Love pumpkin ale.

This entry was posted on Monday, November 3rd, 2008 at 8:12 pm and is filed under travel. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

One Comment