crayons?? decent ones......

[mamaLou13]

Hiya.
Im looking for some crayons for my 16mo dd, shes got some but the colours don't show up n the paper they are so faint so im wonderinf if anyone knows of any decent ones. I have thought about felts but as you probably know it would be a big messy mistake. She enjoys colouring but she cannot really see what shes drawing/ scribbling! (o:
Thanks in advance

Crayola chubby ones.

These are great from GLTC. Technically pencils but chunky and proper colours...
www.prezola.com/c/toys-games/creative-kids-82/art-388/1865962

crayola. they also do washable mini felt tips called pip squeaks which are good.

Crayola are definitely the best. ELC crayons are rubbish.

As hop says, Pipsqueaks are really good too - will come off with a baby wipe!

Yes cryola. Cheap pencil crayons don't sharpen and cheap wax cryola don't show up.

Wax crayons- I must go to bed, my dyslexic brain gets worse when I'm tired.

I have been watching this thread with great interest. I also think Crayola is the best. Can someone please tell me if it is worth paying for 'twistables' (pencils and wax crayons) or are they not suitable for a 2 year old? I like the idea of never having to sharpen and he can happily draw away.

In my experience the Crayola washable felt tips are better, as they come off the wall and crayon doesn't

O, just saw post on twistsbles: they ate good, but really really don't cone off the wallpaper

Twistsbles; come

Stablio Woody chunky pencil/crayons are the absolute best. We recently discovered them when having a meal in "Ask" they provided them for the children. They seem to be a chalk/paint/crayon mix and mark really well.

We couldn't find them in the shops so got them from Amazon -here

And here's the description:-

^Unique and multi-talented: a coloured pencil, wax crayon and watercolour all in one
XXL lead ? as thick as 8 standard coloured pencils
Highly pigmented, break-proof lead for rich, soft strokes
Also writes on smooth surfaces such as glass, metal, leather etc.
The ideal pencil for creative freedom and the highest standards^

I got the washable felts already, £2.47 at Asda for 12. Bargain! So, should I better also get washable crayons and pencils then (seen them on Amazon I think)? He LOVES spreading his artwork across the house .

we used these in Nursery here they are fab and last and last. I have some in a plastic pot that I gave to DS once I had him and he still has the same pot and he is 4. They always show up, even when he was a baby.

I wouldn't use Twistables with a 2yo. They will get twisted up too far and snap off, or get pulled out of the plastic casing unless you watch your LO like a hawk. I'd stick to something chunky until at least 5 unless you have a very careful child or a very high irritation threshold!

Thanks, DumSpiroSpero. Makes sense.

Crayola do chunky felt tips but for OP would stick with wax crayons. You can't go wrong with Crayola

Djeco gel pastels go on very easily, are lovely vivid colours, and are twistable so DS hasn't yet broken them.

But they didn't come out of DS's white top when I washed it... Haven't tried wallpaper.

Every now and again Lidl do these lovely fatty triangular crayons and I snap them up 'cos they're lovely.

Nice to hold, sharpen beautifully and a good depth of colour.

furby pencil/crayons

real crayons are awful

I'm a bit anal about that kind of thing - very few things wind me up more than DD mistreating books or art materials, although to be fair Twistables are very easy to break by accident. Lovely for when they're older though, especially if you can get hold of the blended colours ones.

Would recommend the BIG aquadraw/aquadoodle mats for minimum mess. They are fabric basically and you draw on them with pens filled with water and when they dry out you can draw on them again. DS and his big cousin don't stop until they have filled in every inch of it.

I've given up on art materials aimed at children. They are almost universally rubbish. I got my two some oil pastels off eBay for a fiver - Langnickel & something, a good make anyway. So much better. They surely can enjoy it more if they see good results.

Lyra ferby pencils, stockmar crayons. The Lyra pencils are just SO much better than most kids pencils, and nice and chunky to grip. DS also has Giotto (I think) washable markers, which are fab. TBH crayons come second to the pencils and the markers here.

Oh, and cheap watercolours for paint.

Hopefully, my link was to Lyra ferby pencils - they are fab!

I love them maxy - and there are shorter ones that are easy to hold. Which has basically given me an excuse to steal the big ones.