Crayola Goes Green

Did you know that many of your favorite Crayola products have gone green?  As part of Crayola’s ever-evolving green initiative, this back-to-school season, Crayola is making crayons with solar power, markers from recycled bottle caps and colored pencils from reforested wood.  How cool is that?

Crayola recently sent me a sample of their new crayons, markers, and colored pencil to try out.  Now my daughter loves to color and create various crafts so we have been using Crayola brand products for a while.  I couldn’t tell any difference between using our own Crayola crayons and these new green Crayola crayons.  They still have those bright colors that my daughter loves so much.

These new green products from Crayola include:

• Crayola Markers – Thanks to new, innovative ways to manufacture Crayola markers from recycled bottle caps, “black” is the new “green!” Crayola markers will now have black barrels instead of white, which allows for more recycled plastic to be used and gives a second life to more than 1 million pounds of plastic bottle caps. Plus, switching to black barrels keeps hundreds of tons of plastic out of landfills each year. Available in 10-ct. Broadline Classic Colors, 10-ct. Broadline Assorted Colors, 10-ct. Fineline Classic Colors, 8-ct. Washable Broadline and 8-ct. Washable Fineline.
• Crayola Green 24-ct. Crayons – The quintessential school supply found in virtually every elementary classroom will be made with the power of the sun. More than 26,200 solar panels will convert sunlight into electricity, generating the energy required to make 1 billion of the 3 billion crayons Crayola makes each year, which equals 60 million 24-ct. boxes. Mother Earth will be smiling down on every forest green, pine green and jungle green crayon that rolls off the assembly line!
• Crayola Green Colored Pencils – Committed to protecting the rain forests since 1987, all Crayola colored pencils have been made from reforested wood instead of wood sourced from tropical rainforest or endangered species. For every tree used, a new tree of the same species is planted. The 12-, 24-, 36-, and 50-ct. boxes of Crayola Colored Pencils will be among the first to carry the “Eco-Evolution” callout on their packaging.

Would you like to win a Crayola Green Pack?  For your chance to win a set of Crayola’s new green crayons, markers, and colored pencils, just leave a comment on this post telling me how you are teaching your kids about helping the environment before September 15, 2010.

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This review and giveaway is sponsored by MyBlogSpark and Crayola.