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12 episodes in this season

Balls

10 min

Bicycles and Pucks

10 min

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Crayons and Markers

10 min

Balloons

10 min

Chewing Gum

10 min

Elevators

10 min

Peanuts

10 min

Radio and Television

10 min

Clocks and Watches

10 min

E10

Ice Cream and Popsicles

10 min

E11

The Postal Station

10 min

E12

Lightbulbs

10 min

Here's How

TV Series

10m

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Crayons and Markers

Season 1 · Episode 3

When Orange Balloon cracks a joke about how elephants never forget because they can't write and so they'd better not, it gets the narrator talking about how important drawing and writing are to us. We take a look back and see how cavemen communicated through drawing and also learn about the invention of the first writing tools, such as using sharpened goose feathers for pens. Nowadays, there are all sorts of tools for drawing, from crayons and markers to even using charcoal for sketches. We visit a factory which makes Crayola crayons and see they begin as sticky but not greasy wax. Colored powder is dumped into them, they're then shaped and set to cool and later a machine places wrappers on them. They are also all checked to make sure that they're not broken and that they all have a point. We also take a look at how markers are made, from the construction of the writing points called ""nibs"" to injecting the ink into the markers. After taking a look at a sketch of Mouse in full-color, t

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Here's How

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Crayons and Markers

Season 1 · Episode 3

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