School field trips
Where a broken crayon becomes somebody’s good day.
Students see a real manufacturing line, do real work on it, and leave having made something for a child their own age.
The details | |
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Program feeIncludes chaperones | $15 / person |
Group sizeOne adult per 4–6 students | Up to 30 students |
Session lengthOn the production floor | 1 hour |
DaysTo protect the production schedule | Wednesdays |
| Book 6–8 weeks ahead. A signed waiver is required. | |
Which grades
All grades are welcome, pre-K through high school. The Next Generation Science Standards for California public schools directly align with grades 2 and 5.
Second grade. Second grade science curriculum includes a set of lessons on making crayons. We have a production line in our factory to do just that. Students are also a part of the packing process to ship to pediatric hospitals, and begin to understand the impact of their work.
Fifth grade. States of matter and phase changes. Watching solid wax melt, flow and set into a new shape is that unit, at a scale no classroom demonstration can match.
What students take away
Recycling that isn’t abstract. Most children are taught recycling as a rule. Here they watch a discarded object become a new one in the same room, in the same hour.
How things get made. Sorting, melting, molding, quality, packing, shipping — a full production line at a scale a child can hold in their head.
Empathy with a job attached. The crayons they sort go to a child in a hospital bed. That connection lands harder than a lesson about kindness.
A reason to keep going. Many schools leave as ongoing collection partners — which is how we never run out of a single color.
What happens after
Every school that books receives our School Playbook automatically, sent through the same system that handles your waivers.
Inside: how to run a collection drive, grade-banded classroom activities from Pre-K to high school with Common Core tie-ins where they fit, a Next Generation Science Standards lesson on decomposition, fundraising ideas, and printable signs for your collection boxes.
The visit is an hour. The playbook is what makes it last a year.
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