• Description

  Perfect for shading, blending, and detail work, Crayola Signature Blend & Shade Colored Pencils feature premium soft cores that provide smooth laydown. The cores are also highly pigmented for rich color on both light and dark paper, ensuring every art project stands out. Crayola Signature Blend & Shade Colored Pencils feature matte black barrels with color-dipped ends for easy identification. Packaged in a decorative tin, this set of 50 colored pencils makes an excellent gift.

• Features

  BLEND & SHADE: This colored pencil set includes 24 blending and shading pencils with a decorative tin case. Soft, highly pigmented cores provide smooth color laydown. The Blend & Shade Colored Pencils feature a soft, highly-pigmented gel core that is more vivid than other Crayola colored pencils. The colored core is formulated with a softer wax for a velvety-smooth laydown, and the brilliant colors can be enjoyed on both light and dark paper. The wood pencil casing is round with a sleek, matte black finish and color-dipped ends for easy identification.

  COLOURS: Crayola Signature Blend & Shade Colored Pencils are the perfect tools for your creative art projects. The velvety-soft gel cores provide a color-rich, smooth laydown-excellent for blending, shading and adding detail to any work of art. Colors include Red, Red Orange, Orange, Yellow Orange, Yellow, Goldenrod, Yellow Green, Green, Jade, Green, Robin’s Egg Blue, Sky blue, Light Blue, Blue, Violet, Magenta, Pink, Peach, Tan, Light Brown, Brown, Mahogany, Grey, Black and White.

  DARK & LIGHT BACKGROUNDS: Colors Show up with clarity on both dark and light paper background. Perfect for Artists and Creatives who enjoy detailed drawing or layering and blending colors.

  DURABLE: Sophisticated matte black wooden barrels with color-dipped ends and names listed on each pencil. The wood casing is made of stronger reforested wood which makes for easy and precise sharpening.

  GIFT: Decorative storage case makes this a great gift for lovers of adult coloring. It is finished in a high glossed full color shine. Perfect for Birthdays, Christmas and other special occasions.

FAQ

• How are Crayola Colored Pencils made?

  Introduced in 1998, Crayola® offers a variety of colored pencil assortments that are the essential creative tool for kids or the art enthusiast. Crayola colored pencils are manufactured in Brazil, Costa Rica or Vietnam due to their high-volume manufacturing capabilities.

  
  

  The process of making Crayola Colored Pencils begins in the forest. Seedlings, which are young trees, are planted in fields much like a farmer plants a crop. Seedling crops grow into trees which are eventually used to make wood casings for the pencils. After several years, the trees are harvested, cut into even lengths, stacked onto trucks and shipped to the sawmill. Then, a new crop of seedlings is planted to replace those which have been harvested.

  
  

  At the sawmill, lumber arriving by the truckload is stacked in large piles and allowed to dry. Once dry, the lumber is fed into a bark stripping machine which removes all the bark from each piece of lumber. Next, the lumber goes through a series of milling machines which cuts the lumber into rectangular slats. These slats are about as long as a colored pencil and about three inches wide. The slats are the building blocks for the production of colored pencils.

  
  

  The slats are then transported to the pencil making plant. Here they are fed into another milling machine which cuts small semicircular grooves at regular intervals down the length of each slat. These grooved slats are now ready to accept a colored pencil core.

  
  

  To make a Crayola Colored Pencil core, you need four raw materials:

  1. Extenders - which make up the body of the lead.
  2. Binders - to hold the ingredients together.
  3. Pigment - which gives each type of colored pencil its unique color.
  4. Water – to mix all the ingredients.

  
  

  First, the extenders, binders, pigments and water are placed in a large mixer which gently kneads them together into a uniform doughy substance. When the mixing is complete, the contents of the mixer are rolled into flat sheets. Finally, these sheets are machine-pressed into large, long solid cylinder shapes. These shapes are called cartridges.

  
  

  Each cartridge, while still damp and pliable, is inserted into another machine called an extrusion press, where it is forced through a small tube. The tube has a diameter equal to that of a colored pencil core. As the long rope of wet colored core comes out, an automatic slicer cuts it into equal lengths approximately as long as a colored pencil. Since the leads are still quite moist, they must be dried in large ovens before they become hard enough to insert into the slats.

  
  

  To assemble the pencils, half of the grooved slats are fed into a machine which carefully lays a colored pencil core into each groove. Then a layer of glue is applied, and a second grooved slat is placed on top of the slat holding the lead. Think of this as a pencil sandwich, with each slat acting like a piece of bread and the color cores acting like the filling.

  
  

  These pencil sandwiches are then bound very tightly together and placed into storage to give the glue time to dry. Once the glue is dry, they are fed into another milling machine which cuts them into individual colored pencils. Depending on the design of colored pencils, they are cut into either round or hexagonal shapes.

  
  

  Next, the pencils are fed into a machine to be painted with the same color paint as the colored core. The pencils run down a conveyor belt to allow the paint to dry. The painted pencils are then sent to a machine to be automatically sharpened.

  
  

  Finally, brightly colored finished pencils are packed into boxes, which are shipped to neighborhood stores.

  
  

  Crayola Colored Pencils are used by people of all ages for everything from crafts to professional artwork and school projects. Learn more about Crayola Colored Pencils products.

• Do you have a Crayola Colored Pencil color chart?

  Yes! We offer a complimentary "Color Your Own" colored pencil chart that can be completed with the Crayola Colored Pencils, 100-count box. Access and print the coloring page on Crayola's Colored Pencil Coloring Page.

• Do you have a Crayola Crayon color chart?

  Yes! We offer several complimentary "Color Your Own" crayon charts that can be completed with select Crayola® Crayon packages. Explore our options below.

  
  

  Regular Crayola Crayons

  
  

  • 120-ct. Crayola Crayons

  Specialty Crayola Crayons

  
  

  • 24-ct. Bold & Bright Crayons
  • 24-ct. Colors of Kindness Crayons
  • 24-ct. Colors of the World Crayons
  • 24-ct. Confetti Crayons
  • 24-ct. Cosmic Crayons
  • 24-ct. Glitter Crayons
  • 24-ct. Metallic Crayons
  • 24-ct. Neon Crayons
  • 24-ct. Pastel Crayons
  • 24-ct. Pearl Crayons

  Looking for more coloring adventures? Be sure to check out our free, printable coloring pages.

  
  

• Do you make a sharpener for Crayola Colored Pencils and Color Sticks?

  While we don't manufacture a specific sharpener for Crayola® Colored Pencils, hand-held sharpeners are the optimal choice for achieving a precise point. We recommend them over electric or crank-style sharpeners. Hand-held sharpeners with dual holes offer versatility for most standard-size and larger pencils.

  
  

  Recommended Sharpeners:

  • Standard-size colored pencils: Brass Bullet Pencil Sharpener and Chubby Pencil Sharpener. You can view these sharpeners on the NASCO website or call 800-558-9595.
  • Large-size Write Start Colored Pencils: Helix Hand-Held Sharpener with two holes. Find this product on Blick Art Materials using product code #21401-0100 or call 1-800-447-8192. Some eye pencil sharpeners from beauty supply stores may also work!

  Note: Crayola Color Sticks don't need sharpening, but you can achieve a fine point with any handheld sharpener that has a 15mm opening.

  
  

• Do you sell Crayola Colored Pencils in bulk or in single colors?

  While we don't currently offer our colored pencils in single colors, you might be interested in our Colored Pencil Classpacks! 

  
  

  If you are a consumer located in the USA, check Crayola.com to use our product locator tool.

  
  

  For schools or businesses, check with any of the suppliers below:

  
  

  Art Supply Wholesale (800) 462-2420

  Blick Art Materials (800) 447-8192

  Nasco Arts & Crafts (800) 558-9595

  
  

  Our Canadian friends can check Crayola.ca for availability.