Kid coloring page crayons have a history. Here are four free color crayon history facts most kids don’t know.
1) Kids crayons
2) History and Inventors of crayons
3) How crayons are made
4) Types and Uses of Crayons

Add these to your coloring know how braggin’ rights, kid.

1. Kids Crayons Five billion crayons used?! In one year?! Kid, you know you love coloring.

Crayons are divided into children’s crayons and artists’ crayons
100 billion crayons have been made since before World War I. That means your great, great, great, great grandparents colored with crayons.
An American kid uses about 730 crayons by his tenth birthday. If you’re ten years old and haven’t used 730 crayons yet you’re gonna miss the mark.
So, you’re between ages two and eight, you spend about thirty minutes a day coloring. You don’t even get tired, do you?

2. History and Inventors of Crayons

You’re not the only boy who loves to color. Somebody had to invent crayons and coloring sticks. Best buddies cousins Edwin Binney and Harold Smith created wax crayons and the Crayola Company in 1903. Edwin and Harold made shoe polish and printing ink too.

During the French Revolution Jacques Conté invented the modern pencil by combining graphite with clay.

Crayon is the French word for pencil.

Edwin, Harold and Jacques loved coloring - You love coloring. That’s a fact.

Today crayons are made by Prang, Sargent, Roseart, Conte, Faber-Castell, Winsor & Newton and other coloring art companies.

3. How Crayons are Made

Kid, The crayon you use is a stick of colored wax. The crayon has a hardening powder, pigment powder and paraffin wax or soybean wax.Hardening powder makes the crayon stiff. Pigment powder is like colored flour. Higher quality pigment makes colors more intense and brighter. If you want a purple crayon mix purple pigment flour in the wax. Paraffin wax makes the crayon’s color rub off onto your coloring page paper.

Paraffin Wax Facts:
• Makes candy shiny
• Surfboards slip-free
• Reveals gunshot powder on your trigger hand
• Melts candles
• Used in your mother’s beauty treatment?! – Smooth skin, kid.

Boys, you have access to 128 paraffin wax crayon colors. How many are in your crayon collection, kid?

4. Types and Uses of Crayons

Crayons other than wax are charcoal, hard and soft clay pastels, oil pastels, water–soluble and grease pencils.

Fine artists and glass makers use these crayons:
• Specialty Crayons color cardboard, glass, leather, clothes, plastic, metal, stone, and wood.
• Water -soluble crayons dissolve in water and have high pigmentation. After coloring a picture with these crayons, brush on water for a watercolor effect.
• Graphite Crayon glides over most papers for sketching, layout, and design.
• Pressed colored chalk crayons are firm and dustless – won’t make you sneeze.
• Litho Crayons help you make expressive lines and dark rich blacks. Check out “Color: Coloring Page Kids Should Discover Two Fun Facts”
• Russian Sauce is a cross between a soft pastel and a Conté crayon - a velvety smooth drawing crayon.
• Soft Pastel Sticks are rich and buttery. The pigments slide right off the stick without crumbling or breaking for brighter cleaner colors.
• Hard Pastels are square-shaped and richly pigmented. They are ideal for sketching and tight drawing and produce very little dust.
• Grease pencils, wax pencils or china markers: are used to write, draw on and stick to smooth glass, metal, polished stone, ceramics, plastic, and Mylar.
• Colored Pencils are wrapped in wood like your school pencil.
Serious about art and coloring - Experiment with all crayons for stunning effects and increase your artistic skills? Kid, you can brag now. You learned:

Millions of kids plus you use billions of crayons
Edwin, Harold and Jacques were the leaders of modern crayon inventions
How crayons are made
Types and Uses of crayons
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Michael J Bennett, 25 years as artist, fine art history student and long haul trucker across America with his dad, created coloring pages for his two daughters. Michael is the editor and founder of Coloring Page WOW! The boys coloring pages website.