Crayola for Everyone this holiday season!

I can remember when I was growing up that Crayola products were always on my list every year at Christmas. Even early on I liked to color, craft, and create. Fast forward to present day, I still like to do those things and I like to do them with my daughter. I'm really glad she inherited some of the same traits I have because it gives us a lot of fun things to do together. Fun things like designing fashionable outfits and stickers with these two awesome sets from Crayola.

Fashion Superstar

With the 62-page design book, 24 colored pencils, and 18 SuperTip Markers, young designers have all the colorful tools they need to create their own unique designs by hand with Crayola Fashion Superstar Designer. Use your style and creativity to design prints, patterns, and combinations that best express your personal taste.

Sticker Design Studio

Personalize your world with the Sticker Design Studio. Paint and print art that you can use to decorate computers, lockers, book covers, and almost anything else. To use begin, just squeeze a small amount of the paint onto the clear gel mat and use the roller to blend the paint into a fun design. Once you’re done, put your art onto a sticker sheet to transfer your creation and let it dry. Each of the repositionable stickers, can be moved around whenever you’re ready for a fresh look.

Just one of these sets alone gave us hours of entertainment. We took turns picking out colors for each other to use and made up challenges to use certain patterns or shapes when designing different pieces of apparel. I thought being able to upload your style creations to the app was the best part, it was neat seeing them come to life so to speak.

Leave it to Crayola to make all my dreams come true too! I'm so in love with the new Crayola Signature line I honestly had trouble sharing them with my daughter when they arrived. She enjoys the kits that are geared towards her age, but is getting more and more into the adult coloring books like her mom. The book we received was so awesome, it featured different types of specialty papers to color and create on. I loved that it was different from any other adult type coloring book I had ever used. Paired up with the Crayola Signature Pencils I was in heaven all evening long!

Signature 24 ct. Blend & Shade Colored Pencils w/ Tin
These colored pencils feature soft, highly-pigmented cores for smooth color laydown. The stylish matte black barrels have color-dipped ends for a sophisticated look. Vibrant on light and dark paper, these premium art tools are a wonderful choice for artists aged nine years and older.

Signature Creative Lettering Inspiration Pad
Learn to create eye-catching chalkboard lettering with the Creative Lettering Inspiration Pad. The activity pad includes black and grey specialty papers, tutorials, coloring and craft ideas to help you discover the fun of #Crayoligraphy. This pad pairs well with any of the Crayola Signature Pencils sets (sold separately). Signature Colored Pencils even appear bright on dark papers. Enhance cards, gift tags, table place cards, and more with this unique art tool to help you hand-letter in varying styles.

Signature 32 ct. Brush & Detail Dual-Tip Markers
Crayola Signature Brush & Detail Dual-Tip Markers provide twice the color and tip options for art and writing projects. Each marker features an ultra-fine tip and a brush tip for versatile laydowns and offers two vibrant hues for twice the colors.

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Crayola Crayon Factory - Creativity at it's best!

Okay so I bet you're like us and have one of those boxes (or bags) of crayon stubs and broken pieces am I right? Come on tell the truth, if you have kids you're sure to have one just sitting and looking for a purpose. I know we've had one going for quite some time. I just hate to throw things out that I could possible re-purpose later and use. Well thankfully I held onto those crayon pieces because they have come in quite handy with our new Crayola Crayon Factory. It's really quite cool if you ask me. By using pieces of crayon you stack in the crayon chamber you can melt them down into a fun new shaped crayon! The first one I made (shown above) was a learning experience. I made my blue piece a little too large so the heart had a really dark top half. The trick is to use short pieces if you want a swirl effect through your crayon. You can do just one color too if you want a solid colored crayon. My daughter has been making hearts, dogs and race cars like mad ever since this arrived. She's trying to make sets of them for her cousins for Christmas. I thought it was a really sweet idea. Plus she's old enough to use it all on her own so she can make them without my help.

It gives you a whole new perspective when you're at a restaurant and they give you the little pack of four crayons for the kids to color with. Instead of leaving them behind because we already had a ton at home, we now snatch them up so we can create fun new crayon shapes with them!

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Recycle old crayon bits into colorful reusable crayons with the Crayola Crayon Factory. Designed to work with most standard size Crayola crayons, this electric-powered accessory lets kids create custom toys with colors of their choice. Simply feed crayon bits into the factory and watch as they melt and transform into cool, colorful figurines. The kit comes with three molds and eight full-sized crayons, so kids can start recycling crayons right out of the box. And because the resultant figurines are made of crayon wax, kids can use them for either drawing or playing.

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Color Me Happy with Crayola!

The kids are on their way back to school, unless yours are like mine they are already there. It's truly hard to believe sometimes that summer break is already over for them. Of course in the process in getting ready for school to start we had to load up on lots of school supplies. Including lots of colorful Crayola products of course! I don't know what it is about Crayola, but it's always made me feel happy. Maybe it's the bright colors, or maybe it's that I know it's a brand we can always trust. We made that dreaded mistake many parents do of buying non-Crayola products before and boy were we disappointed. Never again! I won't make that mistake again.

Crayons from Crayola are by far the best I've ever used. And they keep coming out with new colors and styles too. I'm loving the washable crayons for little ones. They have the same bright colors, but they are so much easier to clean up marks from them. The nice part of back to school is crayons are on hot sales. Make sure you stock up beyond what you need for school supplies. You never know when someone might break their crayons, or have a friend in need. I know one time my daughter asked for an extra box of crayons because a friend in class kept borrowing hers because she didn't have her own box. I thought it was super sweet of her to want to help her friend out so I pulled a box out from my stash and sent them to school for her friend. Something that really made that little girl feel good and us too.

What is your favorite Crayola product?

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Color your day happy with Crayola #backtoschool

The kids may be back to school, but that doesn't mean you stop thinking about school supplies. I know our school has the kids bring in supplies at the start of the year as well as after Christmas break. So I make sure after school starts I go out and make sure I have a second set of everything on hand and am ready for that replenishment time. Many stores still have hot deals, and even some have clearance on school supplies after school starts so why not stock up early and be ready. You never know when someone might lose a marker, break their crayons, or have a friend in need. I know in our case my daughter asked for an extra box of crayons because a friend in class kept borrowing hers because she didn't have her own box. I thought it was super sweet of her to want to help her friend out so I pulled a box out from my stash and sent them to school for her friend.

The thing I like about Crayola products is that they are quality made and always give you the best colors. I've made the mistake of buying off brand crayons before and they all broke in no time. Plus they didn't have the same bright coloring on paper either because they were so waxy. Since then Crayola is all I've ever purchased for my kids for back to school and at home. It's a brand I trust and know I can count on to give my kids the quality they need to excel in school and be creative at home.

What Crayola products do you use to "color your day happy"?

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Holiday Gift Guide - Think Crayola for your stocking stuffing needs

Looking for something to fill the kids stockings with that's unique and will keep them entertained over Christmas break? Then you've come to the right place. Fill them with great gifts from Crayola that will get their creative minds working. I know sometimes it's hard to think beyond your basic crayons, colored pencils and standard markers when you hear the word Crayola, but trust me Crayola has so much MORE to offer. They have metallic markers, glitter markers, fabric markers and so many others you can choose from. Something I'm sure your kids don't already have, and would love! I know my kids are always super excited when they get fun new kinds of markers and things to draw and create with. So go ahead and check out all of the great markers Crayola has to offer. You'll be glad you did, and so will your kids come Christmas morning.

Want something a little more hands on? How about the Silly Putty Holiday Pack - you get two eggs filled with Silly Putty in two festive holiday colors. Leave them together for double the fun in one stocking, or separate them into two. Silly Putty is the crazy, classic compound that bounces, molds, stretches, snaps and more!