Monday, February 06, 2006
Anniversary of the 100 Billionth Crayola Crayon…
Today is the ten-year anniversay of Binney & Smith's 100 Billionth Crayola Crayon. On February 6, 1996, Fred Rogers (of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood) made the 100 billionth Crayola crayon. It was a unique color called Blue Ribbon. A million of these special Blue Ribbon crayons were made, and sold in special commemorative boxes.
So, just how popular is coloring? Kids, ages two to eight, spend an average of twenty-eight minutes each day coloring. And the average child in the United States will wear down 730 crayons by his tenth birthday. Combined, American children spend 6.3 billion hours coloring annually, almost 10,000 human lifetimes! According to a report in the "Christian Science Monitor," parents buy enough crayons in a year to make a giant crayon thirty-five feet in diameter and a hundred feet taller than the Statue of Liberty! That's a lot of crayons!
When I was young I had to ask my mom to buy a new coloring book whenever we wnt shopping, but now, due to the magic of the Internet, you can get all the free printable coloring pages your kids could possibly want:
Today is the ten-year anniversay of Binney & Smith's 100 Billionth Crayola Crayon. On February 6, 1996, Fred Rogers (of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood) made the 100 billionth Crayola crayon. It was a unique color called Blue Ribbon. A million of these special Blue Ribbon crayons were made, and sold in special commemorative boxes.
So, just how popular is coloring? Kids, ages two to eight, spend an average of twenty-eight minutes each day coloring. And the average child in the United States will wear down 730 crayons by his tenth birthday. Combined, American children spend 6.3 billion hours coloring annually, almost 10,000 human lifetimes! According to a report in the "Christian Science Monitor," parents buy enough crayons in a year to make a giant crayon thirty-five feet in diameter and a hundred feet taller than the Statue of Liberty! That's a lot of crayons!
When I was young I had to ask my mom to buy a new coloring book whenever we wnt shopping, but now, due to the magic of the Internet, you can get all the free printable coloring pages your kids could possibly want:
- Free Kids Coloring
- http://www.dltk-kids.com/coloring.htm
- http://www.first-school.ws/theme/cpgeneral.htm
- http://www.coloring.ws/coloring.html
- http://www.free-coloring-pages.com/
- http://coloringbookfun.com/
- http://www.coloring-page.net/
- http://www.free-printable-coloring-pages.com/
- http://www.coloringcastle.com/
- http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/coloring_pages.htm
- http://www.thebestkidsbooksite.com/coloringsheets.cfm
// posted by Tammy Wachter @ 7:10 AM 
