Today's show is sponsored by Crayons.

A crayon is a stick of pigment and wax used for writing or drawing.

Crayons are available in a wide range of prices and are pretty easy to work with.

They're less messy than most paints and markers.

Blunt, which removes the risk of sharp points, and they're typically non-toxic and available in a wide variety of colors.

These characteristics make them particularly good instruments for teaching small children

to draw.

Now the history of the crayon is not entirely clear. The French word crayon, originally

meaning chalk pencil, dates to around the 16th century and is derived from the word craya, which

means chalk, which comes from the Latin word

Kreta or Earth. In 1992, Edwin Benny and C. Herald Smith developed and introduced the

marking crayon. A year later in 1903, Benny's wife Alice, she

wanted to get in on this action and she coined the name Crayola by combining the French

word for chalk, craya, with the first part of Oliagenus, another name for the

paraffin wax used to make the crayon. While there have been several crayon brands,

the most recognizable brand was the Crayola Gold Medal line in yellow boxes, which referred to the

one the company earned during the March 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

They used that award to design a new line of crayons featuring the metal on the front of their box.

Initially, they developed and introduced the number 8 box of 8 assorted colors, which became an immediate success.

Now, when I was in school, we thought we were in high which became an immediate success.

Now when I was in school, we thought we were in high cotton.

Mom got us at 64 count.

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