Crayola Experience

Awesome place for art loving kids!
We made a stop here on a road trip and I’m glad we did! I thought it would keep the kids entertained for a couple of hours. Three and a half hours later we had to bribe them out with a souvenir!
Four floors of fun await you at the Crayola experience! Our favorite floor was the top because that’s where all the melted crayon fun happened! Melted crayon spin art, melting crayon molds and melted crayon drip art kept us busy for ages!
My kids liked the two story play structure. It’s cute, but covered in places so it is hard to keep your eyes on your child.
The water feature is fun, but the line is long and slow. Not really worth the wait.
Many of the activities have rather long waits and aren’t facilitated as efficiently as they could be. All in all though, it’s fun.
We were approached while we were there and asked to complete a survey. We were given extra tokens for our minute of time. The kids used them to get extra model magic. A win win situation!
Get the online coupon for sure as there are no discounts for children.
Four stars instead of five because of the NOISE and long waits.

What a cool place! Compared to other places on the same entertainment level, Crayola Experience takes the cake. The admission fee is very affordable and includes tokens that can be used within to do several things. For example, making your own customized crayon label. However, I found that most of the activities inside don’t even require tokens. It’s very clean and the staff seem very nice. It’s located in a small town part of Pennsylvania that had easy to find parking. The technology on this place is remarkable. This isn’t some cheesy gimmick corporate brand that’s looking to sell more items in their gift shop… No, this is full of very interactive crayola themed activities that will keep your kids amused for hours. You’ll spend less money here then you would at any zoo, aquarium or science center. We drove 2.5 hours from Maryland and it was well worth the trip. But why only 4 stars? Some activities I felt lacked signage. I found myself trying to figure out the process of some activities with some confusion. Highly recommend for anyone interested in a fun day with the kids.

Great place to bring kids ranging from 2 to 10 with fun stuff for parents to do too. The gift shop had some neat things, and prices aren’t too bad. It’s a fun way to fill 3 hours. Admission includes some tokens that can be used to make crayons with custom labels, or get markers from a machine. You also get lots of artwork to bring home and get to melt crayons into various shapes and make a masterpiece out of melted wax. Fun stuff. Avoid the cafeteria though.

My 2.5yo daughter had a blast here. I was surprised by how much there was to do. Even her cousins who are a few years old had a good time.
The Crayola Experience is definitely worth making a day trip up from NYC.
The surrounding town is really cute, too, and I would love to check out some of the shops and restaurants during our next visit.

I brought my kids (5 and 2 years old) and both of them LOVED it! There are lots of fun activities for everyone to enjoy … Even the parents. We left there with our own labeled crayons, drip crayon art, and we got to make a shape from melted crayons. We had a choice between a ring, a Dino and a crayon character.
We really loved the crayons experience and will definitely go back!

It is a nice place for the kids, yes is a noisy place but is for kids, we had a lot of fun, try it everything. It is pricy but for a once experience is perfect

If u child loves to color (like mine) this is heaven.
I took my daughter here for her birthday… We drove all the way from CT. 3.5 hrs… From the time we sat in the car it was «are we der yet… are we der yet??? «All way long… she was super excited… we spent almost 5 hrs and she wasn’t any were close to done.
The factory is 4 stories… Lets you play with all crayola products… That’s all it is… I came here with high expectation but as for my daughter she loved it.
Activities: You can make your own crayon, create a coloring picture of urself, color a picture and see it come to life, paint with melted crayon wax.
Store: you can’t fight your kid in this store… You just end up buying everything.
Food: you can find quite a few place around to eat … Food inside is pizza, hotdog. Fries kinda thing.
Parking: found street parking couple of blocs away … Use the crayola website to assist you in parking.

In the perspective of a two year old it was a great time. Parents have to understand there are lines, so make sure you bring patience. Our son had a great time. He made crayons, played with a play doh material, used an art iPad, danced with the virtual crayons, used a large water table to float a «crayon boat,» played in a toddler gym. We will definitely visit again. The crayola experience is great for ages 2 – 7. There are 4 floors so make sure you look at the map to see where you want to visit first. *Teachers could visit free if they visit the website and email the appropriate contact ahead of time. Also discount tickets could be purchased online ahead of time. Enjoy !

I booked this place for my daughters 10^th birthday. I was really hoping it was turn out great. I was disappointed, I arrived on time, no one showed us to the strawberry birthday room. I had to find that myself. I ordered a character who stayed for 5 minutes. That was a waste of money. I spent lots of money here for a group of 20 and I don’t think it was worth while for my daughter and her friends.
I will not return. It was very unorganized, when I was able to get a staff they were nice. But that’s probably from feeling bad.
Never again.

Loved this place
It was an 1.5 hour drive out of New York City
It’s inexpensive and the items for purchase were reasonably priced.
It’s a whole lot of fun to explore and create for kids and allows parents to hang out and relax
I went on s Saturday and (by NYC standards) it wasn’t crowded at all. Parking was easy to find and they allow re-​entry if you need to recharge the meter.
Staff was friendly
The people here were on the calmer side making the whole experience pleasant for the parent
Very little waiting and lots of fun
Would come back over and over

My 5 year old loved it!
Parking is on the street, meter parking up to three hours. The staff is friendly but there is not much guidance so some activities are a little confusing. We went on a Wednesday early morning/​afternoon before it was crowded and it was great we were able to do all the activities without a wait. When it crowd staying to arrive that’s when we left bc some adults are worse then kids, breathing down your neck trying to hurry you up for their turn. Overall we enjoyed it.

A great experience for kids but it comes with a few issues.
Entering the building… whoever made the entire entrench way got it wrong as when you walk in, you have to go through a crowd to get to the back of a line. Then wait slowly as they seemingly do their best TSA impressions. A simple look at the bag though and you are in the front door. Heaven forbid, I actually had something dangerous in he bag…
4 floors of fun and activities. I will say that there’s not enough staff to deal with machine issues or the overall demand. But, each activity was fun and my daughter loved it.
Once you are inside, you have to PURCHASE tokens so you can do some of he activities such as clay building, personalized crayons and more… You get a couple of tokens in your welcome bag but machines are conveniently placed for you to dig for more $$$.
Food in the venue was good and parking to get into the bulldog is either on the street or a local parking garage. Pot luck… on the street, you can only pay for two hours of parking at a time.
The activities themselves were great but again, more staff needed to help Mr and Mrs Dummy. Bring extra $$ as you will need it.

After hearing wonderful things about this for years — especially since the update — I am here to tell you I was gravely disappointed. We went mid-​day on a weekend so we packed our patience, and as expected it was very busy.
So many of the activities have limited capacity, so that meant a lot of line waiting on the weekend. Many (most?) of the exhibits had at least a station or two that weren’t working. The other activities, sans the model magic area, are just coloring stations. Long gone from what I could see is anything of educational value about how they actually make any of their products. Honestly though, I wouldn’t mind if it were a walking advertisement for Crayola if they had enough attendants and did their job. As it was attendants were hard to find and weren’t manning areas even though signage clearly stated they were (like the dark doodle area).
There are two indoor play place type areas. I was happy to see that one was for 2 – 4 year olds. However, the area was not policed at all by staff, so many older children were running around at an unsafe level pushing and knocking over smaller children. I was not amused. This is in stark contrast to the Please Touch Museum that have several staff that monitor such areas and are strict about it.
So sad it was nearly laughable was the «waterworks» area where Crayola did a cheap overlay of their brand over the existing canal boat system that was there when the area housed the National Canal museum. It didn’t even have all the functionality of the previous exhibit. What’s worse is you needed to wait in line for a boat for this. They need to redesign this and make it more like Please Touch Museum to accommodate more children and have it look less like it used to.
They seem to have perfected the upcharge here (something else I am seeing at other child-​focused tourist attractions). Everywhere you turned there was either a premium activity that cost more money or a snack counter. They also have their own cafeteria (previously McDonald’s) which served what looked like overpriced junk food.
Overall I was very disappointed with the experience and would not recommend at all on the weekend, or for a day trip. If you’re already in the area it’s worth it to kill some time during bad weather but otherwise totally skippable.

Get there before the doors open and head right to the fourth floor– it will help make some of your visit line free and allow you to get some personal attention from staff. Fun three hours with a four year old. Not sure how old would really still enjoy.
Also prebuy your tickets. And be sure to check hours before you arrive, they seem to change a lot.

Crayola — synonymous with crayons (and childhood) like Rollerblades to inline skating, like Xerox to copying, like Chapstick to lip balm, like Band-​Aids to… (you get the idea)
We’d passed by ‘the factory’ a few times in the past and we finally ventured in as a Christmas gift for the kids and it was a big hit (they’re 7 — an ideal age to visit).
A very cool place that has a nice mix of things to keep the kids entertained (making a personalized crayon, jungle gyms, a miniature boat/​log ride, melting crayons to make figures and/​or artwork, making artwork that comes to life on a wall or 3D on a computer, etc.). As a frame of reference — my kids are more into Legos but they had a lot more fun here at Crayola than they did at the Lego location in New York. (But both are a hike for us and I think one visit was enough for both.)
Of course we raced out of the house and forgot the coupons we had but the prices weren’t too bad, all things considered. Above-​average gift shop. The accompanying app (free) I got for my phone for the day was decent but not necessary.
Definitely worth getting there right at 10 when they open and it’s still pretty empty. Later into the day it starts to get swamped and less enjoyable.
Highly recommended: skip the food and drinks inside and reward yourself by venturing up about three blocks to Two Rivers Brewing which always has an amazing selection of beers and food.

This really was an experience. The ticket price is not bad when you consider how many activities they have for you inside. I spent about 4 hours but really wish we would of had more time. Purchase your tickets online and show them the barcode which they can scan. By pre-​purchasing, you save your time by not having to wait in the ticket purchasing line and save a couple dollars, it’s cheaper online. Children 2 and under are free.
The first floor includes the entrance, coat rack, lockers (for a fee), The Crayola Store, and the Café. The elevator is right behind the ticket collecting booth. Also, the steps to the second floor.
The second floor is where we spend most of our time. You are given a coin with your ticket to spend on a crayon and personalized label or Crayola Model Magic for molding and playing. The model magic is also for sale $.50 each. Between the coloring and playing and shaping the model magic we easily spent over an hour here. They also have a toddler playing area which my daughter really enjoyed. At the end I asked and emoloyee if this was the end of the second floor and she explained it was. We had an hour left so she suggested we visited the 4^th floor and work our way down to the 3^rd. Thank for so much for this! We had just enough time.
On the 4^th floor there is a melting crayon art you insert the crayon and watch as it slowly melts and splatters on a paper that you collect at the end. There is also a melted crayon art, we chose rings. This was really amazing.
The third floor had a huge playing area. I also noticed a craft section with scissors and paste and preprinted sheets for making a craft (targeted towards older children)
Next time I don’t think I would bring the stroller especially if there is a crowd. We went on a weekday so I am sure it gets super packed here. You can leave your coat at the coat rack there are plenty of hangers (or in the car) and carry around a bookbag or diaperbag.
I was able to find close metered street parking. I really don’t recommend visiting on the weekend.
This was an amazing experience, if the drive wasn’t so far I would make it a point to visit more often. It even inspired me to purchase some craft items for us at home.

Quite the fun and rather unique experience here. There a lot of activities you can do here.
1. You can learn all about how crayons are made.
2. You can make your own personalize labeled crayon.
3. Make little figurines made out of crayons.
4. Have crayon boat races.
5. Have your crayon melted and make some crazy twirl and swirl picture.
6. Draw a picture and watch it come to life.
7. Play in the play area.
8. Draw some pictures using hot melted colors.
I think the store are pretty cool. The best part of it is you can make your own crayon/​marker box. Many colors to choose from. over hundreds of colors.
Just outside of New Jersey. Street parking only. Tickets prices are not bad. You can certainly walk in and out of the factory. Just make sure you get your hand stamped.
Certainly a fun place to visit. Definitely bring kids for this.

We took our granddaughter and had a lovely time. Employees we’re helpful and pleasant. Activities we’re enjoyable, pleanty to do and our granddaughter loved it! 3 story climber and melting crayon art were some of her favorites. I could see how the weekend would get crowded and may be unpleasant but we found it comfortable. A few people in line but moved quickly. Some machines were out of order which slowed things a bit but overall we really had a great time
It’s not cheap but just stay away from the pay activities and park on the street. Our parking deck cost $ 11.50 for 4 hours. Would definetly go back! My biggest regret is not taking my grandson when he was smaller.

It’s a great place for younger kids, our group of Littles ranging from age 2 to 6. Not quite an all day affair through 4 floors of crayola related-​ness, but just long enough to start early in the afternoon to end it with an early dinner.
It was our stop over from Lancaster (Dutch Wonderland) a midway point for us on the way back to NYC. I don’t know about going all the way there just for Crayola, but if you’re planning an overnight/​weekend trip it’s worth a visit.

Who knew so much fun could be had at a crayon factory!
The space is expansive and layed out quite nicely so you don’t feel like you’re on top of each other when trying out the different experiment stations. Lots of crayon melt down machines where you can have a keepsake that is molded into a lizard, dinosaur or bear. They even give you these house coins so you can make special custom wrappers for individual crayon colors of your choosing.
Pricing overall was not bad for 2 adults and 2 kids, especially when one kid was free. The town that is in is very old timey and cute but didn’t really seem to have much to do activities wise.
We will definitely be back!