When we were children, we learned all kinds of things. We learned things as vastly different as our languages and cultures. But one thing that was pretty much universal was coloring. Coloring was a ...

Are your kids already bringing broken school supplies home at the bottom of their backpacks? Or maybe your littlest kids are getting bored at home with their older siblings away at school all day?

NORWALK -- Those worn-down, broken, or otherwise unused crayons that end up in the garbage can -- and ultimately the landfill -- are petroleum-based, and therefore, take decades to biodegrade. The ...

One of the items I took from the classroom when I retired was a new box of crayons. They are on display over the desk where I write and remember. Occasionally I open the box and smell them just to be ...

Mimi Romiti, 4, and Carii Montana practice an intergenerational love for libraries. Jayden Romiti with the big camera, Mimi Romiti (switched to a phone camera), and model Herve Locus. Halloween Party ...

When Naperville resident Kristi Hanna was a little girl, now more than 50 years ago, she had a coloring book filled with horses. She still has the book, but these days Hanna is filling in the lines a ...

There wasn’t much money in our family when I was little. The six of us living in a four-room apartment, with all four kids sleeping in the same bedroom, and the bathroom off the kitchen with no heat, ...

Christopher Straub of Bristol, armed with quaint names for different colored crayons like "London gray fog," entered the ...

"She wanted to share something that would both inspire creativity and celebrate individuality," Tosha Woodard says of her daughter Bellen Joelle Goldstein is a Senior News Editor on the TV team for ...