{"id":27312,"date":"2026-03-31T00:05:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=27312"},"modified":"2025-12-11T21:14:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T02:14:48","slug":"national-crayon-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=27312","title":{"rendered":"National Crayon Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>National Crayon Day is today!<\/strong>\u00a0The concept of crayons, using beeswax, has been around for thousands of years. Today&#8217;s crayons are made by melting paraffin wax and adding pigment. Although at one time around 300 companies produced crayons, only a few companies remain. Now Crayola is the biggest producer of crayons. So what can children do today? They could make a poster (using crayons) celebrating National Crayon Day. They could advocate for a new crayon color. You could gently melt old crayons and make crayon blocks that produce multihued effects.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is there anything better than a new box of crayons?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Crayon Day is today!\u00a0The concept of crayons, using beeswax, has been around for thousands of years. Today&#8217;s crayons are made by melting paraffin wax and adding pigment. Although at one time around 300 companies produced crayons, only a few companies remain. Now Crayola is the biggest producer of crayons. So what can children do <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=27312' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6506,5447,6505],"class_list":["post-27312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-crayola","tag-march-31","tag-national-crayon-day","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27312"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28254,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27312\/revisions\/28254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}