Friday is National Crayon Day -- but at Crayola, it will also be a farewell party. For the first time in its 100-year history, the company will retire a color from its 24-count box. That's right. They ...

Crayola was all set to announce the first-ever color to be retired from its 24-count crayon box on Friday -- National Crayon Day. The company was preparing a big reveal in Times Square, with a giant ...

On the heels of Monopoly retiring beloved pieces left and right, our memories of those halcyon childhood days are once again taking a hit: Crayola is retiring the dark yellow "Dandelion" crayon. The ...

Crayola said it plans to retire a color from the company’s iconic 24-count crayon box on Friday for the first time in 100-plus year history. The Pennsylvania-based arts and crafts company will hold an ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Crayola wants to retire a color from a childhood-favorite, it's rainbow box of 24 crayons. But Crayola isn't saying which color will bite the dust just yet. The company, cruelly ...

Created in 1903, the 8-count Crayola crayon box included the basics: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, brown, and black. Eight colors could not begin to paint the complexity of America. The 64 ...

This article originally appeared in Business Insider. First invented in 1903, the original Crayola box contained only eight colors, including red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, brown, and black ...

The writing on a crayon wrapper, some experts claim, is one of the first things many children read. So it’s possible they learn the words “indian red” at the same time they learn to spell their names.

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CHARDON, Ohio -- Life is like a box of Crayola crayons not a “box of chocolates.” Apologies to Forrest Gump. We are all in that yellow, tiered, rectangular box, no exceptions. Look around, find ...