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Our Crayola Experience

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Rob and I took the kids the The Crayola Experience in Easton, Pennsylvania.  Both Hayley and Derek are very into arts and crafts and I thought this would be a good day trip during the midst of the summer heat.  The ride from Philly was about an hour and a half and pretty direct.  From the moment we walked into the Crayola Experience the kids were so excited and dancing!

We started off on the second floor where they actually have a Dry E Race Car!  The kids thought this was just so cool!

Derek was so excited to be there he even posed with a crayon for me

We saw a presentation about how crayons are made.  Hayley was a bit young so I took her out but Derek was so into it that he told me all about the presentation while we played with Crayola Modeling Magic.  Modeling Magic is like play-doh but WAY better.  It is so easy to shape, stretch and roll without coming apart.  If we didn’t make the kids continue on to another exhibit, I think they would have stayed in this section for hours (this was a common theme throughout the whole visit!)

Derek made a bow-tie

Derek and Rob went to the Crayola Meltdown where they colored a picture with all melted crayons and Hayley and I headed towards Chalk Walk.  At the corner of Crayola Way and Chalk Way the kids had a blast coloring with chalk inside,”Yes, you can color on the floors!!  Yes I know we are inside!”

Then we headed over to the “Be The Star” Photobooth.  It was so cool and put our pictures into the coloring sheet.  They sell a home version of this that Derek has called Lights, Camera, Color and it’s so much fun.

Here is a bad picture version of me, Hayley and Spiderman

We painted and did one of the projects they offer to make binoculars.  After you paint your sheet you get to bring it over to a dryer.  Derek loved running all our paintings to the dryer.  There was then directions on how to make the binoculars.  Everything was so clearly explained, easy to do and so clean for a place filled with crayons, good thing they are washable!!Running to the dryer
 Before we left we cut, pasted, and colored more.
Followed by coloring in the awesome Glow Galaxy where you paint with light wands on the wall to make cool designs and shadow prints
 
The Crayola Experience is filled with interactive activities for your little ones.  Although my youngest is only 22 months, she had a blast and my 4 year old could have stayed all day if we weren’t so hungry by 3pm!!  The Crayola Experience offers so many different ways to let your creativity shine! The Crayola Experience is $12 per person and children under 2 are free.  Parking is $2 per hour at the lot directly across the street.  The Crayola Experience is extremely clean and a wonderful way to spend a day indoors!  It totally exceeded all my expectations and I can’t wait to go again!
The Crayola Experience has generously given me a Family 4-Pack of Admission tickets to giveaway.  They are good through December 31, 2012.  
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Disclosure: I was given free entry to the Crayola Experience so that I may do this review.  However, all the opinions expressed in this post are my own

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  7. Samantha says

    My favorite product is the washable markers… My boys love using the markers but Mama doesn’t like the mess on their bodies … This place looks awesome and I definitely would love to take the boys one day!

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  12. Alissa says

    Crayons, washable markers, paints (it’s tough to pick just one). The thing I love most about Crayola as a mom, though, is that when they say “washable” they actually mean it!

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    • Sarah says

      Alyssa, you are so right!! I am always amazed how it actually comes out of the kids clothes. When we were visiting I told my husband it was amazing how clean to walls were given that toddlers and little kids are running all over constantly with crayons and markers!

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  22. Diane says

    I love a new box of crayons! My son has been asking to go back to the Crayola factory for a while now. Looks like they added some new exhibits.

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