# There's Plenty of Room in This Great Big Wonderful Box For All The Crayons **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 26, 2001, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-plenty-of-room-in-this-great-big-wonderful-box-for-all-the-crayons/95268 "2001-11-26T12:25:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Politzania](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ab097/32.png) [@Politzania](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Politzania)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2001, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-plenty-of-room-in-this-great-big-wonderful-box-for-all-the-crayons/95268/21 "2001-11-26T18:19:27Z")
Dang - now I gotta go look for my crayon box when I get home… I think we got the Big Box (64) but not the Big Honkin’ Box (96)… When I was a mini-Poli, I had metal recipe box with daisy contact paper on the top as a crayon box - full of all the stubs & castoffs. Didn’t get a brand-new box until sometime in second or third grade, i think. I didn’t know about the lightbulb trick - tho we did burnish - take a scrap piece of paper & rub it across the drawing to blend the colors & get better coverage. Reminds me when a friend & I got all our coloring implements - crayons, paints & pencils - & made abstract collages with the colors we best thought suited our personalities. I think we were in our junior year of high school… I wonder if it’s still around somewhere? ---
**Author:** ![Politzania](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ab097/32.png) [@Politzania](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Politzania)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2001, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-plenty-of-room-in-this-great-big-wonderful-box-for-all-the-crayons/95268/22 "2001-11-26T18:26:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Soda \* > \*\*My favorite was always a green-grey-blue kinda blue. I had to get a new box of crayons as soon as that crayon was gone, and the big bummer for mom was that it was only included in the big boxes. Mom wanted to write Crayola and see if she could just buy that single crayon. She never did, and I ended up with a dozen or so almost complete boxes… \*\* Yes, Soda, you can buy a “refill pack” (not sure if your “green-grey-blue kinda blue” is listed or not… {Can’t seem to get a good direct link - visit the URL below & look for “Where can I order Crayola Crayons in bulk colors/sizes?”} [http://www.crayola.com/canwehelp/contact/index.cfm](http://www.crayola.com/canwehelp/contact/index.cfm) ---
**Author:** ![easy\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@easy\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/easy_e)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2001, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-plenty-of-room-in-this-great-big-wonderful-box-for-all-the-crayons/95268/23 "2001-11-26T19:48:11Z")
In the average kid’s crayon box (size doesn’t matter): black is the first to be used up. followed closely by red. I don’t remember the rest of the order. ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2001, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-plenty-of-room-in-this-great-big-wonderful-box-for-all-the-crayons/95268/24 "2001-11-26T20:04:59Z")
Queen of colour checking in here: They got rid of my beloved colours to replace them with new “trendy” shades. BLAST! Now they have a color called “[www.green.com](http://www.green.com)” no lie. Raw Umber is a real hue in the art world. wolf is NOT. Puce is a mix of brown and purple. NOT a copper. worse still, is that the color palette is not evenly distributed. some places do sell “crayons by the each” btw. you can have a WHOLE box of Vermillion (the one true name for red orange)if you are so inclined. dont get me started on how SPOILED today’s kids are: scented crayons glitter crayons glow-in-the-dark crayons [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-plenty-of-room-in-this-great-big-wonderful-box-for-all-the-crayons/95268.md?page=1)