National Crayola Day - April 25th, 2025
April 25th, 2025 - mark those calendars, folks! It's time to get creative, colorful, and celebratory because National Crayola Day is just around the corner! This special day is dedicated to the beloved brand that has brought joy, imagination, and a rainbow of colors to our lives since 1903. The History of Crayola: Did you know that Crayola's origins date back to 1885 when two cousins, Edwin Binney and Harold Smith, founded a company called Binney & Smith in Easton, Pennsylvania? Initially, they produced slate pencils, but it wasn't until 1903 that they introduced the first box of eight Crayola crayons, priced at just five cents! The name "Crayola" was coined by Alice Stead Binney, Edwin's wife, who took the French word "crayon," meaning stick, and combined it with "ola," a contraction of the word "oleaginous," which referred to the crayons' wax-based formula. Since then, Crayola has become synonymous with creativity, s...