Crayola 240 Sheet Construction Paper

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5 Reviews

1. It arrived neatly packaged, assorted colors, 240 sheets just as advertised. I don’t think cartwheels would be appropriate, but I am certainly satisfied with the purchase.

2. It is amazing to me that we live in a world our ancestors only dreamed about. Imagine how artistic expression must have suffered before this stellar company brought us the creative phenomenom called “Construction Paper”. Thank the lucky stars that someone who worked at Crayola woke up one day, probably next to his myopic wife and just down the hall from the kids, and said to himself “What if that white paper was COLORED? What if it was THICKER?”. I imagine that he immediately got up and glued some white sheets together, then called his youngest (the 3 year old Manilowa – yes, named after his favorite singer) to take one of the thousands of Crayola crayons lying around his house since every Christmas for the 18 years he’s worked there, the company has given each employee one of those really big boxes, and go to town so to speak. And voila – construction paper was born. Well, the prototype anyway. I’m sure once this man presented the rough model to his boss, the highest-paid engineers were called in and a project committee was formed which included Research and Development and of course Marketing would be involved (probably spent many hours coming up with the actual word “construction” and then some absolute GENIUS thought to add the word “paper” to really grab their target group. I imagine many, many weeks were spent in cross-functional meetings to determine exactly how many sheets to put in a package, and probably the wimpy looking fellow with sparse hair and huge glasses tried valiently to get his magic number 200 through but the boss’s son-in-law said 240 so that was that. My, if only George Washington as a child had had access to this wonder, he may have grown up to be an architect instead of our first President, and if that had happened, then NO ONE would ever know there was a Delaware River unless they lived in the area. This is why I think all the people of New York and New Jersey and even Pennsylvania should write to that man at Crayola (the father of Manilowa) and thank him personally for not having been born in the 1800s and therefore being indirectly responsible (actually through divine reincarnative omission), for putting their river on the map.

3. My kids love to create on this construction paper. There are a wide variety of colors and the weight is not too flimsy for cutting and pasting. It was a great buy for us.

4. I purchased this along with other art supplies for my 5 year old nephew who loves to do crafts. The paper is a good weight and works great for drawing, cards, paper airplanes, etc. I’ve received many a thank you letter and drawing made from this pack and I’m really happy I bought this for him. I’ll add to the comment that this paper is dark with saying that some of the colors are bright – its just that the paper is not pastel/light.

5. A nice variety of dark construction paper. The sheets are slightly larger than letter paper and light weight. Good if you only want dark colors.