August 9, 2018 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google When buying school supplies for your kid—perhaps during one of the tax-free weekends happening around the country ...

Legendary pencil and pen manufacturer Faber-Castell ups the ante with its Perfect Pencil, a cedar-wood pencil featuring a platinum clip, replaceable erasers and a sharpener atop. But the price is ...

Grade school is an opportunity for budding artists to finally shed their cumbersome crayons and try their hand at making a masterpiece using the subtle shades of a box of colored pencils. But artist ...

Sketching is an expressive activity that enables people to manifest their emotions and artistic imagination. It is a talent that can be honed through practice, however, employing the right instruments ...

So when is the last time you picked up a pencil? These writing instruments, it often seems, have gone nearly extinct as a primary method of writing—a sad commentary, since their rich history is one of ...

As a new middle-school teacher, I’m facing a challenge I never thought about before: assigning a list of school supplies for my students. My colleagues tell me that there’s a real downside to wooden ...

A class of fifth-graders from Green Acres Elementary in Lebanon, Ore., asked us to find out how pencil lead is made. That quest took us all the way back to the dawn of the universe and then all the ...