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From its earliest beginnings, Crayola has been a color company. They came into being when cousins Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith took over Edwin’s father’s pigment business in 1885. More than 120 years later, color – along with creativity, learning and most of all, fun – is the hallmark of their company.

Crayola has called Easton, Pennsylvania its home since the early 1900s. Today, the company’s world headquarters and major manufacturing facilities are located there. And downtown Easton is the home of The Crayola Factory , a one-of-a-kind celebration of creative fun for everyone!

In 1984, Crayola became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hallmark Cards and has since played the lead role in Hallmark’s personal development strategies.

Providing you with safe, high-quality, and age-appropriate products is top priority at Crayola. Since their brand’s beginning in 1903, they've ensured that their products are nontoxic and safe. Crayola appreciate the trust that parents, teachers, and children have in their brand, and want you to know what is being done to ensure everything they provide for children’s use is safe.

Crayola has had a comprehensive plan in place for many years and is continually updating the quality assurance programs to ensure Crayola products are safe and of the highest quality.  Here is some safety information you might want to know:

1. As the leading brand of children’s art materials, they have always taken a leadership role in product safety. In 1936, Crayola became a founding member of what was then called the “Crayon, Watercolor and Craft Institute,” and is now called the Art and Creative Material Institute (ACMI). This organization promotes product safety in art materials for children. All Crayola products carry the AP (Approved Products) seal.
    
2. Crayola adheres to all government and industry safety standards. Their products are reviewed by independent toxicological evaluation to ensure they are offering safe and nontoxic art materials of the highest quality.
    
3. Their Quality Assurance team in Easton, Pennsylvania continuously works to ensure their raw materials and products in their global supply chain are consumer-safe, and that they comply with continuously updated government directives and voluntary standards regarding product safety and quality.  As new safety methods and testing procedures are available, the Crayola Quality Assurance team applies them.
    
4. Crayola continue to evaluate, screen, and test their products and raw material components where they are sourced—whether that is in the United States, China, Europe, Asia, Mexico, or Brazil.
    
5. Crayola have had metal detection and x-ray detection devices and metal filtering systems in place on their product manufacturing lines to ensure product safety.
    
6. Crayola cooperate with their retailers by providing them with safety testing and compliance results, and conduct any product tests they might request.  
    
7. Inspections and audits of their overseas manufacturing vendors—which are being stepped up to ensure that the facilities they work with have the highest standards and meet their world-class specifications—have occurred on a regular basis for many years.

As a leading art and craft supplier, Crayola appreciate the unique relationship that they have with parents, teachers, and children. The relationship is based on a heritage of trust and product quality that they are committed to upholding.

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