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Crayola Swings into Action with Spider-Man 2 Creative Activity Line; Lets Kids Imagine They Can Do Whatever a Spider Can.


EASTON, Pa. -- Look out! Here comes a line of Spider-Man 2 creativity toys and activities from Crayola. Now kid-sized Spider-Man fans can bring their favorite web-slinging crime fighter to life off the silver screen. Kids can melt crayons and mold them into their own Spider-Man and Dock Ock characters with the Spider-Man 2 Character Maker, draw webby designs with Crayola Spider Writers, pens that ooze OOZE - Object oriented extension of Z. "Object Orientation in Z", S. Stepney et al eds, Springer 1992.  a spider-web-like ink, and even decorate their windows with all things "Spidey" with Spider-Man 2 Window Markers and Window Clingers.

The Spider-Man 2 Character Maker lets kids melt and mold left over bits of crayon crayon, any drawing material available in stick form. The term includes charcoal, conte crayon, chalk, pastel, grease crayon, litho crayon, and children's wax colors.  into Spider-Man and Doc Ock characters using this "spiderific" crayon melting toy. Any Crayola color combination can be melted together to customize an army of colorful Spider-Man characters poised and ready to defeat Doc Ock. The see-through top lets kids watch the melting action inside. The Spider-Man 2 Character Maker will be sold exclusively at Toys "R" Us Toys "R" Us (currently typeset as ToYsЯuS in the logo) is a toy store chain based in the United States, Canada, Australia,The Netherlands, South Africa, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom.  beginning in Sept.

What would Spider-Man's drawing tool of choice be? A Crayola Spider Writer, of course. Spider-Man 2 Spider Writers have a special, stretchy stretch·y  
adj. stretch·i·er, stretch·i·est
1. Capable of being stretched: a stretchy fabric.

2. Tending to stretch excessively.

Adj. 1.
 glittery ink that lets kids create wild, web-like designs on any color paper. Simply squeeze the pen and stretch the elastic ink on paper and you'll be spinning webs just like the web-slinging wonder himself! Spider-Man 2 Glitter Spider Writers come in a pack of 5 pens including blue, red, violet, gold and green.

For the youngest Spider-Man 2 fans, Crayola offers the Spider-Man 2 Color Wonder Color Wonder is a marker pen and paper system made by Crayola, primarily intended for use by children, in which the special markers will only color on the special paper.

Reference: Picture of system
 Limited Edition Art Set, featuring mess-free Color Wonder markers and finger paints. Kids love these special markers and finger paints with colors that magically appear only inside the lines of the Color Wonder Spider-Man 2 coloring book. Color Wonder won't leave marks on skin, carpet, clothing, upholstered furniture or walls, so it can be used anytime, anywhere with no mess! The set includes a 24-page Spider-Man 2 Color Wonder Coloring Book, 6 Color Wonder Finger Paints and 4 Color Wonder Markers.

Is that Spider-Man scaling the house next door? You bet it is! With Spider-Man 2 Window Markers from Crayola, kids can draw their favorite superhero su·per·he·ro  
n. pl. su·per·he·roes
A figure, especially in a comic strip or cartoon, endowed with superhuman powers and usually portrayed as fighting evil or crime.
 on windows and mirrors using 6 unique stencils and 7 specially-formulated washable markers that easily wipe off windows with a damp cloth. The window decorating doesn't stop here. The Spider-Man 2 Window Clingers kit lets kids use paint pens to create decorative Spider-Man window clings that stick to windows and easily peel off. The kit contains 1 black outlining pen, 5 paint pens (blue, silver, yellow, red, green) and one Spider-Man pattern sheet.

Velvet Visions fuzzy posters from Crayola have met Spider-Man, with four, collectible limited-edition designs based on the movie, that kids can color using six washable Velvet Visions markers.

All Spider-Man 2 products include special packaging and are in stores now to coincide with the release of the Spider-Man 2 sequel on June 30.

Note to editor: Digital images available at www.Crayola.com/media center

About Binney & Smith

Binney & Smith Inc., maker of Crayola children's art products and a subsidiary of Hallmark Cards Hallmark Cards, a privately owned American company based in Kansas City, Missouri, is the largest manufacturer of greeting cards in the United States. Approximately 50% of greeting cards sent in the United States every year are manufactured by Hallmark.  of Kansas City Kansas City, two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, NW Mo. (inc. 1850). , Mo., is headquartered in Easton, Pa. Also included in its brand portfolio are Silly Putty Silly Putty

synthetic clay; uses ranging from bouncing balls to false mustaches. [Am. Hist.: Sann, 165]

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 products, Portfolio Series art materials Techniques and materials related to art:

Traditional techniques:
  • Acrylic paint
  • Charcoal
  • Clay
  • Collage
  • Drawing
  • Fresco
  • Glass
  • Gouache
  • Gum arabic
  • Lithography
  • Oil painting
  • Oil pastel
  • Paint
  • Painting
  • Pen and ink
 and inkTank adult writing instruments. The Crayola brand marked its 100th birthday in 2003, celebrating a century of bringing color, fun and creativity to children around the world. Binney & Smith makes 3 billion Crayola crayons annually.
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