Did You Know? Crayola Makes Nearly 3 Billion Crayons a Year!
Crayola produces about 3 billion crayons annually — laid end to end, they would circle the Earth 6 times!
Crayola Makes 3 Billion Crayons a Year! 🖍️
That’s a LOT of coloring: Crayola produces nearly 3 billion crayons every single year!
If you lined them all up end to end, they would wrap around the Earth about 6 times. The most popular color? Blue! Crayola has created over 400 different colors since they started in 1903, when their first box had just 8 colors. Today, the standard big box has 120 colors.
Crayon Art Time 🎨
Color a giant pile of crayons in as many different colors as you can! Ask your kids: “If you could invent a brand-new crayon color, what would you call it?”
Fun fact bonus: Crayola’s senior crayon maker, Emerson Moser, revealed when he retired after 37 years that he was colorblind the whole time! 🤯
