That much paraffin wax and colored pigment is enough to make a crayon thirty-seven feet wide and four hundred and twenty feet long, higher than the Statue of Liberty. Crayola crayons are sold in more than eighty countries and packaged in twelve languages. Douglas Mehrens from Phoenix, Arizona, uses more crayons annually than any other individual. He melts about 24,000 each year to use in his abstract artwork. The average American child uses 730 crayons by his tenth birthday.
Children ages two through eight spend an average of twenty-eight minutes a day coloring.
It's no wonder, then, that a Yale University study revealed that the scent of Crayola crayons is among the twenty most recognizable scents to American adults. All rights reserved.