CrayolaOil Pastels Classpack (336ct), 12 Brilliant Opaque Colors, Kids Arts & Crafts, School Supplies for Classrooms, 4+

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.

This is a great classroom pack of oil pastels. The oil pastels are big enough that they don't break easily and sturdy enough that you can color with them and apply pressure when drawing, that you get a very nice coloring out of them, without breaking them. I was very pleased with them after a few weeks of use by multiple students. I will buy this product again.

Great find and price for my students.

Used for my middle schoolers art classes ,good collection of colors and are pretty pigmented.

I bought these for kids, but the quality is good enough for artists!!

Surprisingly creamy and easy to blend. Lots of fun to use, especially with my toddler. There are double the amount of black and white pastels which amazing for blending. They blend/mix well using stumps and tortillions, but I didn't have as much success thinning and blending the colors together with turpenoid and a brush. Not professional grade but still very fun and pretty effective.

I purchased these as a gift to a homeschooling family. There's enough for everyone. They enjoy them.

Great value and arrived in perfect condition. I love these pastels for little hands, trust the safety and quality.