Green Is Cool For Back-to-School
Have you ever heard of a “smencil?” Me neither. You can’t eat it, but wait ’til you smell one! Cotton candy, root beer, cinnamon, and very berry, to name few flavors. You can find them at a really cool earth-friendly website called, “Stubby Pencil Studio.”
Kate Rosenthal started the site about 3 years ago, when her twin daughters were two years old. She wanted to find safe, eco-alternatives for art supplies for her girls. She started with adorable Color ‘n Kids note cards - printed on 100% post-consumer recycled paper and cholorine free! And things took off from there. Before she knew it - she found items like Beeswax crayons, Banana paper notebooks and monkey pencils. What a wonderful menagerie of eviro-conscious creative stuff for kids!
There are things like O’Bon pencils, made from 100% recycled newspapers with rainbow and wildlife patterns. Who knew you could roll old newspaper into pencils? (Jeans into carpet was an eye-opener for me.) But this is fantastic! Then you take a great idea like that and make it even better by adding yummy smells like chocolate, watermelon or peppermint - and you have one gourmet-licious writing utensil. They’re affordable, too; a set of five costs $5.95. The peppermint Smart Smencils actually enhance your kids’ learning power by stimulating their concentration. Seriously - research says peppermint is a great brain booster and kids who smell it - get better test scores! That school tool gets an A+!
A must for little kids - is crayons, of course! Don’t you have about a thousand of them all over the house and under the backseat of the car? Well, Stubby Pencil Studio carries crayons so cool that I bet the kids will keep them in a safe place to use over and over again. Soy crayons by Prang, don’t flake like regular petroleum wax color sticks and are made with pure soybean oil. Eight crayons for just $1.00 - that’s very affordable. And crayons made out of beeswax and vegetable oils with natural pigments for color? What a honey of an idea.
Check out all the earth-friendly ideas for your budding artists - and YOU - at Stubby Pencil Studio. (I didn’t even get to the Banana, Coffee and Tobacco fiber papers and notebooks.) It’s a whole new world of green creative fun! P.S. Kate says she can ship within 2-3 business days. Yipee. I can almost taste my grape smencil now!
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August 14th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Great eco-friendly site.
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The Writing Gourmet (Loves eco-friendly vinegar and olive oil)
September 30th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
i absolutely think this is a great idea this earth really needs this help to survive a healthy environment for all kids and adults its so sad to raise children at this time every thing is going costly and down. teens and adults are trying to survive at this time of stress and depress its hard to get around now when things arnt so lucky anymore people are getting lazy and not caring anymore so im going to do anything to make this a better world and im going to do anything possible in my way to make it a better place ..