Neanderthals living in Ukraine’s Crimea region deliberately shaped ochre into crayon-like tools for making marks and designs.

A recently published study suggests humans' creative inclinations go back much further than previously thought ...

Looking for a budget-friendly way to light your next bonfire? A Reddit user shared a step-by-step guide on how to turn crayons into fire starters at little to no cost — and the hack received mixed ...

Recent archaeological excavations in Crimea have unearthed a fascinating aspect of Neanderthal culture: the crafting and use ...

The most exciting is a roughly 4.5-centimeter-long, 1.2-centimeter-thick (1.8 and 0.5-inch) fragment of yellow ocher that was “fully-shaped into a crayon-like tool with a pointed morphology”, with ...

MECKLENBURG COUNTY, N.C. — A Cornelius woman is bringing new life to arts and crafts time on Earth Day. Mackenzie Smart has found a way to recycle old, broken crayons into new ones and even found a ...

Two chunks of ocher unearthed at ancient rock shelters in Ukraine were actually Neanderthal crayons, according to a recent ...

In Broadalbin-Perth, the Broadalbin-Perth school district’s Project Lead the Way (PLTW) program is collecting old crayons, which are then recycled, made into new crayons, and donated to children’s ...

Archaeologists have discovered a 42,000-year-old yellow ochre stick in Crimea and Ukraine, suggesting Neanderthals possessed ...

Caydence sees all the artwork her drawing inspired. When 9-year-old Caydence from Austin, Texas, picked up a box of 64 crayons and filled a page with her drawings, she sparked a wave of creativity.

"She said, 'Mommy why don't they show brown people in movies and books?'" A 7-year-old girl is determined to get multicultural crayons and books featuring diverse characters into California classrooms ...