We use community supplies, parents pay a levy and we provide everything. The levy does not cover the full cost of everything but we keep the cupboards topped up. We use twistable crayons, however, the red, yellow and orange colours are heavily used and I keep opening new packets to replace the ones used. I now have lots of twistable crayons in other colours and would like to purchase just red, yellow and orange crayons. Does anybody know or have any ideas how I can get single colours? I have contacted Crayola but they do not do refills of twistable crayons. (I am looking a purchasing probably 300 red, and 200 of yellow and orange?
You might be able to get away with using these red ones- http://www.officeworld.com/Worlds-Biggest-Selection/BIN687403/13Q1/ They are considered "grading pencils" and are considered discontinued. If you need certain colors and don't mind not having twistables product, Crayola will allow you to do a customized box of any 4 shades: http://www.crayolastore.com/custom_box.do . That might be helpful to use as "back up".
Bioangle: Thank you for that. I think I will try your suggestions. czacza: We use twistable crayons because they are held like a pencil, their size does not get smaller as the crayon is used. The chidlren are taught not to twist the crayon up too much and if they do break, I can fix them. You also get to use most of the crayon. They stand up in a pot, each the same size and all the colours are visible. I don't use twistable pencils though. I have tried them but they tend to beak too easily and cumble in the pencil shaft. They are fixable though but often the pieces are just too small to reuse. We also use thick and thin textas (felt tip pens).
