clipped from: www.colourlovers.com 
For the last 100 years or so kids have been exploring and creating worlds of color with Crayons. For a lot of us, our life long love affairs with color began with these wax sticks and a blank sheet of paper.
The first box of Crayola crayons was sold in 1903 for a nickel and included the same colors available in the eight-count box today: red, blue, yellow, green, violet, orange, black and brown.
In the last 98 years, more than 100 billion Crayola crayons have been made.
children in the US spend 6.3 billion hours colouring annually, almost 10,000 human lifetimes!
Many crayon names are also borrowed from traditional artists’ paints.
