droolicious : crayons

For Those Arty Fingers – The Crayon Rings

SunnyChanel — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:00:00 GMT

Yup, you can actually wear your artistic tools. This set of colorful rings aren’t just to dress up your fingers, these handcrafted pieces of jewelry are actually crayons. This set was created by Timothy Lilies and are just available in size 7, so they will be too big for your little one’s fingers but it will keep them busy. Just think, you’re out to brunch and you can just pull off your ring for some instant amusement. The set goes for $50 and you can pick them up, for a limited time, from The Future Project here.

Non-Toxic Handmade Crayons

AmandaHill — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:00:00 GMT

These handmade, non-toxic kitty crayons are absolutely must-have! They are also egg molded and shaped for tiny hands. So not only are they adorable, they are ergonomically made for little ones.

Click on over to Kitty BB Love's Etsy shop to check them out. They've already sold out of some already. So hurry over!

Create Your Own Adventure

Lisa Mulcahy — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:28:00 GMT

Remember those books that let you decide which way the story unfolded? Well, these are a lot better. Kids get a clean slate to let their imagination run wild.

Hard covered Blank Books, $3.50, contain 28 blank pages (14 sheets) that are constructed with quality white paper and work with crayons, colored pencils, or watercolors. So unleash the inner illustrator and author in your child (for under five bucks!).

The Dark Side of Design

Lisa Mulcahy — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:30:00 GMT

Before you get too depressed because the sun is setting earlier and earlier these days, just think of all the family fun that can be had in the dark. Check out this new glow-in-the-dark art set.

Crayola’s Glow Station is a smooth surface canvas that’s made of a light sensitive material. Instead of crayons, kids “draw” with a light wand and stencils. It’s designed to hang on the wall in a dark nook (unless you’re a photography buff with your own dark room). The Glow Station can also be a fun outdoor activity for camping trips or backyard sleepovers.

The only downside is that the images are temporary, but the set does include transparency paper for tracing must keep creations.

$23.99 at Amazon.

Avoid Crayon Chaos

SunnyChanel — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:42:00 GMT

The other day we were on a flight back from Disneyland (the happiest place on earth) and as part of our in-flight entertainment we stocked up on a variety of coloring books for our kid. I presented my little one with her new pirate activity book and she was extremely excited to start marking up the lily white pages. I managed to dig out a yellow, blue and brown crayon from the depths of our diaper bag. All was fine and good until she wanted to color his pants. Red. They had to be red. She repeated over and over red, red, red, rojo, red. When she throws in a little Spanish we know she means business. Thing is, in the chaos that is her diaper bag I couldn’t find a red crayon anywhere, a tip of black, a half of green but the free range crayons swam around the bottom of her bag like a lost school of fish. Now I wish I had spotted the Dine.n.Doodle Roll-n-Go Crayons set before we set sail. This crayon keeper will hold 16 regular crayons or 8 big crayons and keep them organized, contained and all in one piece and will hopefully keep the peace when your budding artist demands their favorite hue. $9.00

Droolworthy: Crayola Beginnings for Babies and Toddlers

Aaron Burgess — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:32:00 GMT

If you've ever tried to color with babies or toddlers, you've no doubt spent more time keeping crayons away from open mouths than you have actually creating art, and even if your kids aren't prone to gobbling writing implements, you know how frustrating it can be for little hands to manipulate the things. Leave it to Crayola to come up with a fix in Crayola Beginnings, a line of fun, finger-friendly supplies designed for budding artists ages 12 to 36 months.

TaDoodles Washable First Marks (pictured above) and TaDoodles Washable All-in-One Paint (both $5.99) are chunky, egg-shaped tools that toddlers can easily grasp in a palm, and as a bonus to those of us who have to clean up afterward, they have no caps to choke on (the markers also contain six times more ink than Crayola's regular washable markers). They'll dry out between uses, so you just dab them on paper to reactivate the ink or paint supply.

TaDoodles Washable Crayon Buddles ($4.99; pictured above) hold triangular crayons in their noggins and safeguard against broken tips via their chubby frames. As older kids graduate to something a bit more their size, Crayola Beginnings Washable Triangular Crayons ($2.99-$4.99) ease toddler grips into a natural tripod position to help with early writing skills.

In a clever if slightly incongruous twist, the TaDoodles characters also double as Weeble-like figures that wobble but won't fall down, and kids can wheel them around in the Crayola Beginnings First Marks B.U.V. (a.k.a. "Beginnings Utility Vehicle" -- $14.99) when they tire of coloring. The all-in-one Creativity Central ($19.99; pictured above) is a double-sided easel that uses gel-filled surfaces and water to simulate fingerpainting and ink drawing without the mess.