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from: Bunki Kramer (bkramer.us)
Los Cerros Middle School
968 Blemer Road
Danville, CA 94526
http://ww2.lcms.srvusd.k12.ca.us/faculty/faculty.html
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> I love Prismacolors, however they are very expensive. We use Prang colored
> pencils and they seem to do ok. Spectra color is another brand that is good
> but pricey. If cost is not an object then Prisma is the way to go!
> Ken Schwab
> San Jose CA
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We used to use Prismacolors in my classroom exclusively. The colors are
sharp and easily mixed/blended BUT...the darn things would constantly break
(or if you dropped it by mistake, they'd even break on the "inside"). At
NAEA in Chicago, I discovered the newer Prang 6mm colored pencils. These
pencils are fatter and almost never break...even with mid. schoolers. They
blend, I think, as well as the Prismacolors. Now I'm not talking about the
thinner version of Prang, only the 6mm ones. I buy them in boxes of 24
colors each which can be expensive at the onset, but the GOOD NEWS is they
LAST forever. Twenty-two boxes will handle almost 1000 kids a year for me
and we do alot of colored pencil work. After a year's use, I don't even have
any nubby ones...they are all still fairly long.

If you haven't tried these 6mm's yet, you really should get a box and test
them yourself. Toodles......

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