
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, April 14, 1995                   TAG: 9504140014
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 1   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: NANCY GLEINER
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

NOTHING SMELLS SO SWEET . . . TO A KID

Feel a little twinge when your child opens a new box of Crayolas, remembering what it was like - the shafts of colors all the same height, labels intact, tips cone-shaped?

Now's your chance to be a kid again and relive your most memorable childhood moment (hopefully, it was more significant than opening a new box of crayons).

Enter the Crayola Big Kid Classic coloring contest (details on boxes of Crayola products) by Sept.15. Being childish could win you grown-up prizes, including $25,000 in silver and gold (the green kind).

Not artistic? Not to worry. Kids 5-17 will be the judges (details same place).

Too bad the contest is restricted to humans. According to Crayola, a Sacramento dog named Bingo holds the distinction of being the world's only coloring canine. He prefers large-size washable Crayolas.

If you were an average kid, you used up 730 crayons by your 10th birthday (not including those you ate or fed to the dog).

You can thank Emerson Moser for some of Crayola's paraffin pigments. The company's most senior crayon maker, Moser retired after molding a record 1.4 billion crayons. He was color blind.

Don't remember crayons called thistle, melon or bittersweet? In a decade that will usher in a new millenium and blue m & m's, nothing seems to stay the same - except the waxy smell when you open a new box.

by CNB