We have been on the go and playing outside like crazy!! I will get the writing up here soon... but for now here are some pictures of our visit to the Crayola Factory! We had a great time!
First when we got there we hard and saw a presentation of how crayons are made. It was neat to see how the hot wax melts and how over 1000 crayons are created at the same time by brushing hot wax back and forth to cover all the holes that will turn into crayons. Then someone inspects the crayons to make sure they are perfect and the imperfect ones get thrown back into the hot wax machine to melt again. Then they have machines to put the labels on and to fill the crayon boxes. It was a neat process to watch. We also watched a marker being made. Learned note ** if a marker has dried up, stick the tip in warm water for 30 seconds, put the cap back on for 24 hours and your marker should be back to brand new! Pretty cool! The moisture from the warm water will circulate through the cotton color swab inside the marker and re-wet its self. Neat!
Here the activity was to color a picture and then the picture was made into a 6 piece puzzle. Cool!
This station was a large circular table that you could use any color crayon and make yourself a master piece!
There were three machines that you could stand with a backdrop and put yourself into the picture. This one was with a car. There was also spider man and Cinderella. (Don't know how I missed getting Morgan's Cinderella picture!)
Here's another station! They colored this piece of leapord paper, sent it through a oven like machine and then it was rolled up to make binoculars tied around the neck with a rope. They had their binoculars to hunt out some wild animals!
Morgan posing with the chalk driveway mural!
This station was cool! They got to use long q-tip type tools and use hot wax to color their frogs. All different colors and within seconds it hardened on their frogs. I think I liked this station the best!!
The molding clay station... they got to use molding clay and cookie cutters to create shapes and then could use markers to decorate them.
Posing with the red crayon...
They each got to float a boat around a maze and deliver coal from one end to the other... I only got a shot of RJ because I was trying to help RJ's boat... his seemed to have a problem... it kept flipping over and sinking... the girls' boats seemed to do much better!
Scribbling on the car!
After spending
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