color your world!

I mobile blogged some of the pictures, but for the day off of school (Rosh Hoshana) we packed up the kids and hit the Crayola factory in Easton, PA. It was perfect really- not TOO far of a drive, decent admission, and lots of arts and crafts and freebies along with really cool factoids about the world's favorite crayon! I DO recommend getting ticket ahead of time- it was awesome, we went straight to the front of the line. The kids seemed to love the melted wax art and chalk drawing the best, but I liked the little demonstration where we got to watch the crayons and markers being made.

Oh, and who knew that there was a national canal museum?? Anyone??

so we went up there and played in the water and trains for a while because it was part of our paid ticket...We wanted to go to a decent lunch (dodged that MickieD's bullet) and so we bribed the kids with the Factory gift store (home of the world's largest crayon) if they were good. They were fine, but in the factory store they were nuts- Delaney loved renacting a clothing rack and scared me to death when we couldn't find her! We bought lots of stuff- Gibson's only request was SILLY PUTTY (made by Crayola- who knew??) but of course it was the cheapest thing in the store and I talked him into buy much more overpriced colored pencils (good one mom!!) and had a pleasant drive home- begging the children to sleep all the way (not a chance!!!).