Why does Crayola offer peach- AKA "white" skin color, but no "brown" skin colors?

I have seen sets of all the skin colors sold by Crayola. So I do not understand why you are upset.

Crayola Brown Colors

I am black and do not find any racism in Crayola colors. They have quite a few shades of brown PLUS a tan. So what if they're labeled brown? I AM brown. If you know how to mix colors, you can mix any skin color using colors that aren't even actual skin colors (I used black with touches of dark blue to color a guy and peach, tan and mahogony to make a white person). It can be harder to color a variety of white people when you only use peach.

Brenna,

The only Crayola box I don't own is the box of 24. There are many colors that can be used to create the variety of skin tones in the world. If not singly, then in combination with other colors. Have you done scientific research to establish that a majority of people who are of darker skin tones limit themselves to the box of 24 Crayons? It would be very presumptuous of you to state that without proof of your hypothesis. Be careful what you say.

By the way, I am "white", but none of the Crayons put out by Crayola have even matched my skin tone in just one color of Crayon either. I am not "peach".

I'm not sure that a first grader is the most reliable reporter of what actually was said. While I'm sure that your teacher probably said peach was a "skin color," she was likely referring to your son's self-portrait. Self-portraits are one of the most common projects done early in first grade, since teachers are evaluating the children for reading readiness, number awareness, verbal communication, etc. The detail to which a kindergartener or first grader can make a self-portrait is a good quantitative measure of their development. If you have other reasons to doubt your teacher, by all means speak with her about diversity. However, if this is the only reason to have questions about the appropriateness of her comments, I would most definitely give her the benefit of the doubt and assume she was advising your son specifically on a self-portrait. If you want to know more, by all means volunteer to help out at school. I'm sure you will get a lot of information that way. Good luck to you.

You might want to check with the Crayola Co. I think they did a special a while back with the colors of the world. It was made up of different skin tone colors. If not they are always looking for new ideas to make. Who knows, you might have a good idea.

They do have brown. In fact, many different shades of brown. Just because it doesn't say SKIN doesn't mean its racially biased. The peach doesn't say skin. It says peach. not white. It just happens to be the color of Caucasian skin. Nothing biased about that.

Does it really matter? They are kids. They don't know a difference. I believe that people should worry about other things more, not what colors a crayon box has.

they're just crayons :)

and yes they do have brown in the 24 pack

not like really dark tree brown

but they have a tan-ish color and another one i can't remember

why are you trying to claim that the crayola are racists? get off it