16-pack Washable Triangular Crayons product reviews

The shape of these crayons is a fantastic idea, with them molding themselves to little fingers. The crayons themselves are washable, which was a great selling point. They slide onto the paper well, without ripping or tearing the paper, even newsprint.
I was a bit annoyed that they still broke just as easy as normal crayons, I was hoping that the triangular structure made them a bit more hard wearing! I also didn't quite understand the paper wrappers as every kid . know just tears these off... maybe this was why they broke- who knows! The range of colours was good, although it would have been nice to see less bright colours and a couple of softer colours.
I also thought the price was quite high. They didn't seem to be amazing value as you can get ordinary shaped crayons for a couple of dollars. Overall I would purchase these again, but only for a birthday or Christmas present.

I watched with pride as my 8 year old son grabbed these, with wide eyes and a lot of ideas spilling out of his mouth, and ran off to give them what could only be described as 'a test-run like no other.' 14 A3 pages, looking like a rainbow had been hit by a car, later and there was still heaps of crayon left!

Now I have found, over the years, that crayons can be separated into two main classes: the soft ones and the hard ones. Soft ones glide on, smooth and silky... they leave a nice rich colour behind, and run out in a matter of hours. The hard ones are durable, tough and long lasting... and often end up attached to the edges of a shredded page due to the friction tearing. These, quite surprisingly, are in that nice middle road, where they are hard enough to be durable, yet soft enough that they can be used on normal 80gram paper and even 60gram newsprint, and not end up grabbing a piece of the paper and tearing it away.

A good range, I would have to say the colours are a little limited, with the 'red' end of the rainbow being represented well, but the 'blue' end being a little light. A couple of nice mid-tones would have gone well, in my mind... perhaps a cyan and a teal, dump the 'porky pink' and 2 of the 3 oranges, and maybe through in a lighter 'lavender' instead of the second dark purple... just to open up that creative scope a little more.

Overall, great crayons for kids, with the triangular cross section enforcing that egronomic 'tripod' grip that will help them improve their writing, and minimise the chances of early-development RSI/OOS. My son thought they were very cool, and loved the effects he could produce by using one of the flat'ish edges... something he couldn't achieve with traditional round crayons. The only little 'oddity' I discovered was that if left in a cold environment, some of the crayons developed a silvery 'fur' on the exposed areas. I suspect this is simply the wax substrate reacting, in a similar manner that chocolate get that white 'skin' if left too long. (That white stuff is actually pure fat, by the way, leaking out of the chocolate and crystalising.) My little lad thought the 'silver' made them look "...ultra cool and futurific..." so I left him to it.