Crayola sent us Crayola Creations Thread Wrappers for us to use as we supported and provided the Glassboro Family Success Center with crafts and activities during their Back to School event. We thank Crayola for helping us support our local communities.
Jersey Family Fun is 5 years old! 5 YEARS! No doubt you may have noticed that if you have been a follower for a while. You may have also noticed too that our heart has always been in making a difference whether it’s through this site helping families find ways to have fun with each other or out there in the community helping by hosting or cohosting activities that serve families. Now that we are 5 years old that commitment to service is stronger than ever. And with that we’re putting our connections and relationships with toy brands to better use. We’ll work to promote them in a way that helps us make a difference in a bigger way than we ever have before.
What does that have to do with wrapping pencils in thread?
The first brand to come on board and join us in this new direction is Crayola. We’ve always loved their products and at Blogger Bash this past summer we got to see some of their newest ones. There were products that let kids engrave crayons, an app-based toy that lets the user create short-animated videos, and then there was the Crayola Creations Thread Wrapper. This neat new toy lets kids wrap almost everything in colored thread. If it can fit through the opening of the wrapper, it can be wrapped in thread. I knew it would be the perfect toy to work into a back to school event we were working on.
This past August, Glassboro Family Success Center organized a back to school event that brought out children in need in the Glassboro community. The mission was to get kids ready for school by providing them with some of the items they would need for a successful school year. Hairdressers donated their services to give kids back to school haircuts. Local agencies came together to provide backpacks and school supplies and students could get what they needed.
Crayola was a big part of our role at the event! Not only did they provide us with boxes of crayons for each student, but they also sent us 3 Crayola Creations Thread Wrappers. Over the three hours we introduced kids to the Crayola Creations Thread Wrapper, showed them how it worked, and let them design and wrap pencils we provided. Each Crayola Thread Wrapper can hold 3 minispools of thread. After the thread is initially wrapped around the item, the user moves the item back and forth (while holding the button) creating the pattern they like. I admit I was pleasantly surprised how easy it worked. We kept 2 Thread Wrappers ready to wrap and a third one set up to create more thread.
Since you or your kids will easily find yourself/themselves wrapping everything, you’ll need to replace the thread. Crayola makes that very easy to do. It’s just a matter of changing the wrapper a bit. Knowing we would be very busy, having that third wrapper generating new thread made it easy for us to keep up with the demand of wrapping the pencils.
As if the Crayola Thread Wrapper wasn’t cool enough letting you wrap your stuff with any thread, you can also create your own thread color. Taking the same set up as when you refill a spool of thread, you place a fabric marker in the groove. As you push the marker to apply pressure the marker colors the thread. You can change the marker color as often as you like. Start with white or any light color thread, and change parts to pink, blue, green, yellow. You are only limited by your imagination.
As you can see the kids loved wrapping their pencils. From the preschoolers to the teens, we had many students stopping by wanting to get in on the Crayola fun. Don’t you think your child would love to get in on the wrapping?
What would your kids wrap with the Crayola Creations Thread Wrapper?
The Crayola Creations Thread Wrapper includes
- Motorized threading unit
- Re-threading attachment
- Six spools of thread in Crayola colors. (The thread wrapper will work with most threads once they are threaded onto the bobbins/spools.)
- Two bobbins
- One fine-line fabric marker
Batteries not included.
Where can you buy a Crayola Creations Thread Wrapper?
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bucks county mom
Wednesday 4th of November 2015
Was it as fun as it looks?
Jennifer A.
Wednesday 4th of November 2015
Yes, the kids all loved it and I was thrilled that it's really easy to use. - Jenn