Colour my world

After many days of Liam begging. We finally made it to the Crayola factory in Easton Pennsylvania. We were under the impression it was closer than it was.
Just like the Thomas train place that's also in Pennsylvania. But we made it and it was a quaint little town.


It's not really a factory, but more like a play place for kids and a museum, in a town for artists.
However in this place they do show you how they make the crayons and the markers. It's only a 30 minute demo.
In 10 mins, they can make 1200 crayons.
I think the demonstrator said they make 3 billion a year!
That's almost as many big macs Americans eat every year!
And did you know that they renamed 'orange' to 'mac n cheese'.


Check this out.
Retired colours.
They retired 'flesh', because not everyone's skin colour is the caucasian, although in some places in the world (HK) they spend lots of money trying.
They retired 'prussian blue' because kids could not relate to Prussia.
Then there's 'indian red'. Guess because it wasn't brown enough?


And of course they sell tokens to buy stuff here. The kids just like seeing it come out of the machines.

There are 4 floors in this building. Nothing on the first, just entrance, and a place to hang out and eat some McD's from next door. The 2nd has the demo and where you redeem all the tokens for crayola stuff. There's this clay stuff that feels like a marshmallow and if you roll it into a ball it's bouncing. I was expecting it to behave like plasticine and just splat on the table. Instead it bounced over my head. This floor also has a wax area, where you put drops of it on your spiral paper. Kuya did it too, but got most of it on his shirt and face. My camera battery ran out, so I have no pics.

The 3rd has a train set and some museum and interactive mechanical stuff. And the 4th has a interactive water works area showing how locks work. Pretty cool.


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