Top 10 Best Things to Color With

There's no shortage of options when it comes to coloring tools. You've got the classics like crayons that smell like childhood and melt in hot cars. Colored pencils for the control freaks and the detail chasers. Markers for the bold, the messy, the people who live dangerously and don't care if it bleeds through the page. And then there are the quirky ones like twistables, gel crayons, or scented tip markers that smell like fruit but somehow still give you a headache.

Some are basic. Others come with glitter or smell like strawberries if strawberries were made in a factory and lived in plastic barrels. There's the cheap stuff your dentist gives out that feels like you're scraping wax on concrete, and then there's the high-end gear with color names like Tuscan Sunrise and Cerulean Dreams. Yes, it's blue. But it feels fancier.

Now it's your turn to say what deserves the spotlight. Vote for your favorites. The ones that made your homework look artsy or your notebook margins a technicolor masterpiece. The things you reach for when it's time to tune out the world and zone into the page.

The Top Ten

  1. Cra-Z-Art Colored Pencils

    Cra-Z-Art has multiple types of colored pencils. Some packs have 12 colored pencils, while others have 24, 72, or even 100 colored pencils.

    Colored pencils are great, especially when I combine some nice colors together.

    Colored pencils are my favorite thing to draw with.

  2. Crayola Markers

    Crayola Markers typically come in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, as well as brown and black. There are also many Super Tips versions of these markers.

  3. Crayola Crayons

    Crayola Crayons come in many different colors, like red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, etc. There are also different boxes with various amounts, ranging from 8, 10, 24, 64, to 96.

    Crayola is a million times better than Cra-Z-Art!

  4. Twist-up Crayons

    Twist-up Crayons, just like Crayola Crayons, come in many different colors. They differ from regular crayons in that you twist them out to use them.

  5. Cra-Z-Art Crayons

    Cra-Z-Art Crayons come in different colors and typically come in packs of 8.

  6. Crayola Super Tips

    Crayola Super Tips are washable markers that are thinner than ordinary markers. They usually come in sets of 10, 20, 50, or 100.

  7. Crayola Glitter Crayons

    Crayola Glitter Crayons color with the respective glitter of each crayon.

  8. Sharpie Highlighter

    Sharpie Highlighters are just like regular highlighters, but in the Sharpie brand form.

  9. Crayola Silly Scent Crayons

    Crayola Silly Scent Crayons are twistable crayons that are scented with various flavors.

  10. Laurentien Colored Pencils

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    Castle Watercolor Pencils

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    Chalkola Watercolor Brush Pens

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  13. Crayola Silly Scent Markers

    Crayola Silly Scent Markers are scented markers that are also washable.

    I love to use them to check my homework at school.

    Even if the scent is good, these burn my nose.

  14. Crayola Makeup Line

  15. Prismacolor Premier Colored Pencils

    My friend has these, and she let me use them.

    Let me say this: I will NEVER look at Crayola the same way AGAIN. Great color options, for one thing. A very wide selection and multiple shades of every color. But let's talk about usage - AMAZING. No scratching sounds, no white streaks left where you missed a spot. The coverage and opacity are flawless, and the color applies like butter - just OH so smoothly. The pencils are very rich and pigmented, too. Definitely worth the money.

  16. Crayola Colored Pencils

  17. Glitter Pen

  18. Twistables

  19. Laurentien Fineline Markers

  20. Play Day Super Tip Markers

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