Good Morning all!
A few monthes back I was cosen to share with you a fun excursion we would take this summer.
I had intended on sharing this a lot sooner but i have had some technical difficulties getting the pics from my camera to my ipad. And today is the due date so I will roll with what I’ve got!
The Crayola Experience is located not too far from where I grew up in Pennsylvania! It was a few hour trip for us! But well worth it! Crayola gave us 6 admissions and a $50 gas card for our fun!
Admission is $15.99 unless you order online in which you get a dollar discount and it drops to $14.99
And that’s the price for ages 2 to 65!
So my goal on this trip was to look at the Crayola Experience as someone who has just paid full admission for a family of 6 on a tight budget. (Which we are). I knew what was where in the building and how much everything cost. My goal was to go into the building a spend a fun family day with spending extra money.
Let me just start of by saying this before we went on this trip I was a HUGE crayola fan, BUT after this trip, I am the absolute biggest Craola fan….AND SO ARE MY KIDS!
So everybody knows this packaging anywhere Right?
Even the smell is unmistakable and for most of us, it wisks us back to a time when our biggest worry was what color to use next!
Well let’s go more in depth about our trip.
Due to scheduling, we had to wait til the end of August, which was okay by me because I knew Pennsylvania would be in school by that point, and that would me less crowds…Right? Wrong!! It was Packed!
When you first go in, you buy you tickets (we got to skip that part) and you walked up to, in our case, a lady who took our tickets and handed us each a clear bag with a map and 3 silver coins in it! (You can buy additional coins for 50 cents each)
Then you are released to explore and create as you heart so desire! The three coins are used for three different activities. I will point them out along the way!
Each one of our kids colored sea creatures to their liking even miss Bug added Sparkies and when all was entered in a few short minutes the pictures showed up on a massive mural
From there our kids enjoyed playing in the toddler area…lol, we only have one toddler, but the huge light bright was cool!
From there we went to the make you own marker, and model magic areas……each of these areas cost one of those silver coins. You get to watch one marker (with two colors) being assembled and then you get one package of model magic (your color choice)…. At this point i will say this we all came away with some pretty neat model magic things we shared our colors BUT they did survive the trek home. My suggestion is simple a small hard plastic container with a lid)
Next we explored the melted crayon area! NONE OF THESE THINGS COST A COIN! First we painted with melted crayons, then we chose two contrasting colors and did melted crayon spin art
AND THEN
We chose a crayon of our choice and melted it and molded it!
We also watched alive show that demonstrated how crayons are made!
And one of our kids favorite places was this….
MASSIVE TWO STORY JUNGLE GYM!
The cool thing is the floor was made so they could write with sidewalk chalk on it, and those white animals weasel is on…those are dry erase boards! They were colored on!
This was the stuff we came home with….
Oh and we got free red crayons after the show, and that rainbow of crayons in the lower left hand corner…those are our personalized crayons (thats where the last coin gets used)
And the puzzles you get to use Crayola’s twistable crayons and colored pencils and then the run them through a die cutting machine!
Our last stop was their cool outdoor crayola products statues if you will!
All in all we all had a great time and our kids want to say…..trim.521C038A-8642-462E-A3DA-14EA20D2D600
To check out the Crayola Experience visit….
http://www.crayolaexperience.com
