Win it! Crayola goes green. Solar panels are starting to provide power to make more than 1 billion Crayola crayons annually and recycled bottle caps are being used to make 500 million Crayola markers, keeping hundreds of tons of plastic out of landfills. Additionally, since 1987, Crayola has made its colored pencils from reforested wood: for every tree that is used, a new one of the same species is planted. Crayola’s new greener school supplies will be available for this back-to-school season too!
At Classy Mommy, we’re giving Crayola goodies away. 5 winners will each receive a box of Crayola’s new solar powered crayons and markers made with recycled bottle caps. Enter to win our giveaway here by leaving a comment by July 5th,2010.
In honor of Crayola’s green efforts they are hosting a huge contest which ends June 28th, 2010. Here are Crayola’s contest details:
Children can participate in the “How I Dream in Green” contest for the chance to win one of 10 spots on the Crayola Green Team. Crayola will bring the team to Easton, Pa., to do the honors of ceremonially plugging our new 15-acre solar farm into the sun on August 5.
- Parents or teachers can submit artwork through June 28 that illustrates the colorful ways children want to protect the planet either on Crayola’s Facebook fan page (www.facebook.com/crayola) or at Crayola.com.
- Submissions will be displayed in an online gallery on Facebook open for public voting from July 6-21. Crayola will then select the 10 most creative and original ideas from the artwork that receives the most votes.
- The winning kids will be honored for the ways they want to do good for the environment during the opening of our solar farm and will have the rare chance to take a VIP tour ofCrayola’s manufacturing facility where they can help us package our new solar power crayons AND RECEIVE A CUSTOM 64 BOX FILLED WITH PINE GREEN, JUNGLE GREEN, ELECTRIC LIME AND THE OTHER 15 SHADES OF CRAYOLA GREEN CRAYONS PERSONALIZED WITH THEIR INDIVIDUAL NAMES.
- If you would like to enter your child’s artwork, it can be submitted either at the Crayola Facebookfan page or at Crayola.com.
Disclosure: I received a box of Crayola’s new solar powered crayons and markers made with recycled bottle caps to faciliate this post.
My little artists would love to win!
My boys would love them! Can’t have too many crayons!
wow I think it is great to get the kids involved in making our planet more green, the kids ask to help with the plastic bottles or hold up an item and ask is this recycle! It is great, would love to get these crayons and markers and explain to them how they to are made out of recylcaled material and this really opens up the comunication:)
We’d love to try the new crayons!
Love Crayola!
Love this! My kids would love to try out the new crayons!.
what great news, I didn’t realize they were doing all of that “green” work!! thanks for the post and for the contest
I love when a big company steps up and does something green. I look forward to seeing what more they will do and what other companies will join them.
We are CRAZY about Crayola and love the green efforts Crayola is no undertaking. We even have our own Crayola crayon maker (thanks to the raffle at the CHESCO Holiday Extravaganza) and would love to add to our wonderful Crayola collection!
I think this is awesome – a great thing Crayola is doing! My daughter is a great little artist, she draws or paints ever single day…and loves Crayola crayons & markers!
i love that a great product is going green
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My kids are crazy about coloring and I love the idea of including children in making the planet a better world.
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Every child loves to color. and having something green makes it even better.
I have used Crayola for as long as I can remember! I cannot wait to introduce my daughter to this phenomenal company and their products. Thank you for the opportunity!
This one would be right up my Grand kids ally, they love to draw and color all the time at my house.
Love it-graet giveaway!
How awesome is it that we are totally going green! I am going crazy over this prize.
I was not aware that they were doing that with the crayons. Think that is an awesome thing.
I’d love some crayolas
The VIP tour of Crayola’s manufacturing facility sounds awesome!
My boys would love this! They love to color.
we love crayolas! could always use some more.
That is BRILLIANT! To recycle that stuff and make it into something everyone loves to use. Way to go Crayola.
How wonderful to get kids to use their imaginations and help the envorment at the same time!
My daughter would love this! And what a great idea!!!
I would love to win this!
This would be a great prize to win for the environment and for the kids!
You really can’t ever have too many crayons or markers, can you?
Oh my 7 year old daughter would love this and I would, too! We love to hug trees and recycle!
Thanks for the opportunity!
my son loves any type of creative medium, he just got some of the Crayola window crayons last week, and aside from the extra window washing- we all love them!
my daughter (aka aspiring artist) would so love this.
The big kid in me loves to color, as well as my daughter who loves to draw.
good to hear more companies are going green
I thought this was so cool when I heard about the Crayola plant working to run completely off of solar power the other day. My daughter loves to color and it’s good to know her works of art were made while helping the environment.
So fun! My kids would love it.
great give-away. between the girls and my classroom, i am always in need of crayons
What a wonderful lead to take in the industry! Thank you, Crayola, for showing you care and thank you, Classy Mommy, for helping make us aware of it!
My girls and i do crafts every day of the year and would just love these!
my son just loves to color and make creative things this would be great.
We love coloring, would love to win these.
Crayons are always fun!
wow this is great. thank you
It’s great when companies do something to help our eco system! Good job Crayola!
I’ve always loved crayola!!
What a great idea! These crayons will be put to very good use, thanks for the chance to win and Thank you Crayola !!
Very cool!
My kids would enjoy this.
My daughter LOVES to color!
I have a 9 year old daughter and 3 grandkids; there is a lot of coloring in my family!
So cool that they can recycle items into toys for kids! Super-Cool and Super-Green!
What a cool idea. We’d love to try these.
How can crayons be solar-powered? I thought they were hand-powered!
Cooool, man.
Amazing…can’t have enough crayons & markers in this house with 2 lo’s!
I never heard of these type of crayons before…very cool
my niece & nephew would like this i bet
What a neat idea!!!
My 5 yr old just began recycling in our home and is attempting to do it at his preschool. These crayons would be neat to share with him for his great attempts to recycle.
I am so intrigued as to how these work. I would klove to get one for my daughter.
I love that Crayola is using solar power!
My little guy is off to school this year and we LOVE crayola!!
Great giveaway!
My daugher would love to have these Crayola crayons!
I love that Crayola’s greener. Yay!
We’re big fans of Crayola and love that they are “green” too!
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