Crayola Back To School Giveaway

It's back to school shopping time! Does anyone else get excited about that, or is it the teacher in me? Who can resist brand new crayons and markers and freshly sharpened pencils? Or maybe it's the frugalista in me, because there are always so many great back-to-school deals!

To celebrate going back to school, I was given the opportunity to review some new Crayola products through MyBlogSpark, and we're going to do a giveaway as well! They sent me a package of new markers, crayons, and colored pencils. H and G excitedly tried them out for me!

G drew the new markers with black barrels. Black is the new green, did you hear? Crayola has started making the barrels of their markers black so they can use more recycled bottle caps, making them more "green"! The new black barrels keeps tons of recycled plastic out of the landfills each year. Go Crayola!

Crayola has also gone "green" with their colored pencils and crayons. Their colored pencils are made from reforested wood, and their crayons are made with solar power. They have over 26,000 solar panels that provide the energy to make more than 1 billion crayons every year, a third of their annual crayon production. Hopefully initiatives like this will help keep our neighborhoods looking beautiful like H's picture for years to come. :-)

Want to win a gift pack like this for yourself? You have an opportunity to enter this giveaway up to 5 times! For your first entry, I'd like to hear about how you are teaching your kids to help the environment.

1. Leave a comment WITH YOUR EMAIL. How do you teach your kids about helping the environment? If I don't have your email, I can't contact you as the winner!

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5. Blog about this giveaway. Post a link to this giveaway on your blog and leave a comment with the address directly to your blog's entry.

This giveaway will close on Saturday, August 28th at midnight and I will select one winner using Random.org. The prize pack will be mailed to the winner directly from Crayola and and MyBlogSpark.

Crayola provided this gift pack, information, and giveaway through MyBlogSpark. All opinions are my own.