Back to School With Crayola {Win a $25 Gift Card!}
Disclosure: The Crayola product, information, and additional gift pack have been provided by Crayola. As always, all opinions are 100% my own.
I was contacted recently by Crayola to see if I would like to shop for Crayola products during our back-to-school shopping. Of course I said yes!
I thought back to my own childhood and the fond memories of being so excited to get that 64-count box of crayons with the sharpener on the back. Then there was the day I was given an entire box full of paper and various types of Crayola markers, pencils, and crayons (some of them were even glittery!) Yes, those were exciting times, and I thought I could expect the same thing when I headed out for our big shopping trip.
I was right…but I was also wrong! Not only does Crayola still make all those same great products from my childhood, but they have also added so much more!
I did my shopping at good old Walmart. With 3 small children to get in and out of the car, I try to consolidate my shopping to one store as much as possible. Not only were there various Crayola products interspersed throughout the school supply aisles, there was also an entire aisle in the craft section that was chock full of Crayola products. My jaw just about dropped when I turned the corner and saw it.
Our Walmart trip was cut short before I could look at and purchase everything I was hoping to. This pregnant mama just got completely worn out from walking, so I decided to head home and finish my shopping online.
Here's what I ended up with before we left Walmart, though:
- Paint and paintbrushes
- Supertips washable markers
- A good old-fashioned package of crayons
- A dry-erase board
- 2 packs of fine tip dry erase markers
- A 12-pack of washable dry erase markers
- Dry erase crayons
All of these are practical supplies that we will use regularly in our home school. The paint, paintbrushes, and markers are for art class. The crayons are for my daughter's pre-school activity sheets. (And you can't beat 50 cents! I'd rather pay 50 cents for Crayola than 25 cents for the off-brand. There's a big difference.) My son already had his own dry erase board for various activities, but when I saw that Crayola had this purple one, I got it for my daughter (she loves purple!) The washable dry erase markers are for my own sanity (as opposed to non-washable.) Since I was at Walmart, I was able to price-match those for a lower price. I also used a coupon for $1 off 2 dry erase products that Crayola had on their Facebook page. (They have had a number of different printable coupons available throughout the back-to-school season.) The fine tip dry erase markers are for worksheets that I want the kids to re-use. I put the worksheets in sheet protectors and they do them with the dry erase markers so they can erase them and do them again later. The dry erase crayons are for my 2 year old. That way he can do work on his dry erase board like the big kids, but I won't have to worry about him drawing all over his clothes with markers.
When I got home I hopped on to Walmart.com to finish the rest of my shopping.
Crayola Wild Notes Notebook set – the pens change color as you write! How fun!
Fingerpaint – more art class fun
Construction paper – my kids go through this stuff like crazy!
Yup – the 64 pack with the sharpener on the back. My kids need to know how fun it is to have this! 🙂
You can see I'm a very practical person, and don't really go for the gadgety type stuff, but it is amazing to see all the cool stuff Crayola has come up with! Just take a look at all their newest products and you'll see what I mean!
It also wouldn't be a bad idea to follow them on Facebook and Twitter. (Remember those coupons I was talking about?)
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