Amusement park
Crayola Experience Orlando
Interactive crayon factory and play space with drip art, wax hands and rooms of hands-on color play.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Crayola Experience Orlando traces the crayon back to 1903, when Binney & Smith, a company that until then sold barn paint and tire soot, mixed paraffin wax with safe pigment after teachers complained that existing wax crayons were unsafe to chew. It follows cousins Edwin Binney and Harold Smith as they pressed out a set of eight colors, and how Edwin's wife Alice, a former teacher, coined the name by joining the French word for chalk with part of oleaginous. Best heard while walking past the wall of colors near the entrance.
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