# Anyone remember this? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 20, 2016, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-this/743648 "2016-01-20T02:06:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Brodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cc9497/32.png) [@Brodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brodi)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-this/743648/1 "2016-01-20T02:06:32Z")
When I was in the fourth grade ('98-'99) in Killeen ISD, we had a Crayola truck/van come to our school. It was big enough for a class full of young kids to climb inside and do something, I can’t remember what, with hot, molten crayon. Each vat/tub was a different color and I distinctly remember the smell and the heat of the stuff. Did anyone else experience this? ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-this/743648/2 "2016-01-20T07:00:58Z")
No but I seem to remember some mention of it when I did the plant tour/Crayola Experience 10 or more years back. It wouldn’t surprise me but I failed to Google up any info. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-this/743648/3 "2016-01-20T07:07:22Z")
No, back in my day, we had to melt Crayola crayons in the classroom… AND WE LIKED IT! We didn’t have no highfalutin Crayola truck to come to our school. ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-this/743648/4 "2016-01-20T11:48:17Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > We didn’t have no highfalutin Crayola truck to come to our school. worth repeating! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-this/743648/5 "2016-01-20T12:36:12Z")
> [@Brodi](#): > > do something, I can’t remember what, with hot, molten crayon. Did you remember this on your own, or is this a “memory” your therapist helped you form? :eek: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MoonMoon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moonmoon/32/2959_2.png) [@MoonMoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoonMoon)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-this/743648/6 "2016-01-20T15:08:26Z")
No, but the fact that you view '98-99 to be the distant, murky past makes me a little cranky, though. Whippersnapper. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Terrific](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tom_terrific/32/342_2.png) [@Tom\_Terrific](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Terrific)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-this/743648/7 "2016-01-20T15:17:46Z")
I believe I remember something about recycling crayons by melting them down and making new crayons out of them. Google has a couple of entries but I didn’t see anything about a truck coming to the school. ---
**Author:** ![TheFaerie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c57346/32.png) [@TheFaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFaerie)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-this/743648/8 "2016-01-20T17:52:01Z")
I got in trouble in school for melting crayons on the steam radiator when I was in the 5th grade. Does that count? We also were never visited by the Weekly Reader Mobile or allowed to order anything from the catalog. It was so weird. “Hey kids! Here is the glossy catalog full of neat books and craft stuff! Too bad our school district is so lame and your parents so poor that you can’t actually have any of it!” ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-this/743648/9 "2016-01-20T20:47:50Z")
> [@Tom\_Terrific](#): > > I believe I remember something about recycling crayons by melting them down and making new crayons out of them. My father was so cheap he’d do this with our bar soap. I thought I had dreamed up the existence of huge Tinker Toys we used to build structures, but no! [http://journeyleaf.typepad.com/.a/6a00e554d86f24883301a73dbf3722970d-800wi](http://journeyleaf.typepad.com/.a/6a00e554d86f24883301a73dbf3722970d-800wi)