Crayola Oil Pastels Classpack, 12 Brilliant Opaque Colors, School Supplies, 336Count

I bought these for my 4 grandsons to use and share. They love them and use them all the time. And there is no arguing over who gets to use what colour since there are so many choices. They arrived in perfect condition and as always, quickly.

I ordered these twice here for my first graders. 2nd time tool a bit longer....but did finally arrive.Good quality and we have created 4 images with them. (One set is for my partner teacher) And yes, this public teacher paid out of pocket. And yes, he finished work went up in our art fair.It is wonderful to see them use this medium as well as they have-it is closer to paint and I might not have believed first graders could do such beautiful work. These oil pastels are not quite as soft as I like, but pretty close. I just finished fruit in bowl still life works with the children and they blended them so well. Q-tips went well.So here's an idea or two. Take a few Georgia O'Keefe flowers in prints to your class or child. I , personally, like the poppies. I get the images from calendars. Students then replicate with oil pastels, or after viewing look closely at real flowers and make "inspired" images.Another project that worked well with my first was load a bowl with fruit, use these to make images, in this case I used pink paper-it worked wonderfully.White oil pastel clouds, or a sunset would be awesome to make.Ohhh love thinking of making a tree at dusk image.When I used to work a lot with oil pastels I worked in very warm rooms, or kept them a bit warm to soften them, it depends on how you want to blend. But the old tricks are still good ones and we did one of our drawings on a hot day. Got wonderful results.

I got this for my classroom as I didn't want to have to share art supplies with other classes during covid and I'm very pleased. I think that these pastels are actually better quality than the ones in the art room!

I usually get by with 12 sets of pastels for my second graders to share in a year (and those usually last for 2-3 years), but it was less expensive to buy this enormous set. This will last our classes about 5 years!

I ordered these for my classroom for art. They are a great price point especially for classroom use. Definitely a great buy.