We cleaned out the attic a few weeks ago and I found a Collector’s Tin of Crayola crayons that I’d kept from when I was a kid. It was something I’d forgotten all about, having received the tin as a gift when I was just a little too old to care about crayons anymore and so it was put away in a box and moved from apartment to apartment and house to house.
When I found it, I was sure that they’d all be melted since they’d been in a box in the attic for over a decade. Surprisingly when I opened the tin, the crayons were fine.
As a kid, one of my favorite things in the ENTIRE WORLD was a brand new box of crayons. Their smell! Their newness! All in tact, their paper unripped. We’ve survived on remnants of restaurant crayons for all these years, with the exception of the box of 16 crayons that was on Carson’s Kindergarten school supply list. My poor, deprived children.
Since Carson has recently started to be interested in drawing and coloring, I showed him what I found in the attic.
This box of 64 crayons, complete with built-in sharpener, and this kid! MAN! His mind was BLOWN! He couldn’t get over 64 CRAYONS! In ONE box! With a sharpener! He studied each and every crayon for a good half hour.
“Look, Mom! This one says, ‘sky blue,’ and this one says, ‘salmon!’ Have you ever even HEARD of that?!”
He doesn’t want his sister to even look in the direction of the crayons, with her bull-in-a-china-shop ways. He wants to avoid any risk of the 64 perfect crayons getting broken.
And when I was at the grocery store yesterday, I saw that they now sell boxes of 96 crayons. I guess they’ve been selling these boxes for awhile, but I just discovered their existence.
Guess what he’s getting for Valentine’s Day? He is going to FLIP OUT!
There is something fantastic about a fresh new box of crayons! A few weeks ago, my son’s friend was in the hospital because of an allergic reaction. We put together a little care package for him, assembled from items I purchased at Walgreens — including a box of 24 Crayola crayons. His mom said that he was super excited and kept saying, “Wow. A 24 pack!” She reminded them they had one at home, but apparently something about the newness and the number on the box really thrilled him. Had I known, I would have tried to blow his mind with a 64 or 96 pack!
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I’m a little jealous of those, myself. And also feeling guilty about the tupperware container of broken and peeling crayons that’s sitting on our craft table right now. (We *do* have a ‘craft table,’ though, so there’s that!)
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You have an antique! They changed a lot of the color names and I’m such a stuffy old bitty I do not approve. I do agree, though, that the smell of a fresh new box of crayons is delightful.
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In this “antique” collector’s tin, there was also an 8 pack of expired colors! I’ll have to see which ones they were, but they were names like violet blue and yellow green. Poor, retired crayons.
I think I have the exact same tin. The boys have been using it so long now that it has a few dents, some scratches and lots of love. Of course I think it had some of those before the boys took it over. I hope he enjoys his surprise.
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I share his (and your) love of Crayons. The colors! The possibilities!
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Isn’t it amazing how the smell of crayons can take you back to childhood instantly! When I was little, if you were sick you got a ‘feel better’ box of new crayons and a coloring book. I still buy a box for myself if I’m feeling crummy!
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My husband just bought 150 pack that comes in a round plastic turnstile that telescopes out for our little girl’s 6th birthday. She was beyond thrilled and cherishes it. 
One of my favorite things is also a brand new box of 64. YEARS ago, when the only kids in my house was our neice or God-son, I bought a box – you know, for the KIDS. I believe the accompanying coloring book was Scooby Doo – naturally. I had not prepared myself for the possibility that these visiting monkeys would DUMP. THE. WHOLE. BOX. and even BREAK. THE. CRAYONS.
His parents laughed when I gasped as I saw it happening.
I’m much better about it now. As a matter of fact, one of the first things I do when a box of crayons enters my house is to unceremoniously dump the beautiful colors into the big plastic box with the old and broken ones.
Clearly, the therapy and medication is working.
I LOVED a brand new box of crayons as a kid.. who am I kidding. I still do. One of my favorite mommy/daughter bonding activities is to sit down and just color.