{"id":153684,"date":"2026-03-31T22:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/153684\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T22:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:03:09","slug":"sense-of-joy-and-enlightenment-crayola-celebrates-national-crayon-day-with-one-million-crayon-giveaway-easton-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/153684\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Sense of joy and enlightenment\u2019: Crayola celebrates National Crayon Day with One Million Crayon Giveaway | Easton Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EASTON, Pa. &#8211; March 31st is National Crayon Day and to celebrate, Crayola has brought back its One Million Crayon Giveaway.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The sense of joy and enlightenment,&#8221; said Meg Steich of Emmaus.<\/p>\n<p>The big, bright and bold crayons can make for a tough favorite choice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s pointing to the green crayon,&#8221; said Steich, referring to her son. &#8220;He really likes the color green.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I like blue and purple,&#8221; said 10-year-old Adelaide.\u00a0&#8220;And I like red,&#8221; added her friend, 8-year-old Ava.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Probably shamrock,&#8221; said 12-year-old Carson. &#8220;Because I&#8217;m a little bit Irish. I just like the color of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have so many colors and so many more products,&#8221; said Diego Eras of Easton.<\/p>\n<p>For many, the nostalgia kicks in during a visit to Crayola Experience in Easton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whether you&#8217;re a grandparent, a parent, a teenager, a kid. I remember my first box in the &#8217;90&#8217;s,&#8221; said Abby Dentner, Marketing and Sales Manager at Crayola Experience in Easton.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a walk down memory lane for Eras.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I personally grew up, you know, I knew of crayons and, but I guess didn&#8217;t have access to all of them very easily,&#8221; said Eras.<\/p>\n<p>Now, he&#8217;s bringing his children to celebrate Crayola&#8217;s One Million Crayon Giveaway.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are happy that we live in the city and that Crayola is here, and we enjoy it very much,&#8221; said Eras. &#8220;Just seeing my kids enjoying it, my three-year-old and my one-and-a-half-year-old, it&#8217;s, you know, it&#8217;s everything that I can ask for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All along the &#8220;Pick your Pack&#8221; wall, sit nearly half a million crayons in 74 colors up for grabs.<\/p>\n<p>Before diving into the fun, guests must register and download a voucher to redeem their free 32-count crayon box. Then, they can pick their favorite colors to take home with them.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors can also meet &#8220;Dandelion&#8221; the crayon and join in on fun activities.\u2002\u2002<\/p>\n<p>Guests can register to make their own boxes through May 31st.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EASTON, Pa. &#8211; March 31st is National Crayon Day and to celebrate, Crayola has brought back its One&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,734,69801,9458,69799,2181,7288,18691,69800,22840],"class_list":["post-153684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-children","tag-colors","tag-crayola","tag-crayons","tag-easton","tag-family-activities","tag-giveaway","tag-national-crayon-day","tag-nostalgia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}