Box of 14 Colored Wax Sticks

Yeah, 14...

The box of Crayons says that there are 16 in colored crayons in the box, but there are really only 14.

And a black one

That's not really A color.  It's a shade

And a white one.

That's the ABSENCE of color.

Who does Crayola think they're kidding?

Obviously, the black crayon comes in handy with making panda bears and tigers on white paper.

But what do you do with the worthless white crayon!?

Yes, you could use the white crayon on colored paper, but interestingly enough, colored construction paper is not sold everywhere like crayons; Target, for example does not have construction paper.  I did find a rather large stack of construction paper at Costco (though it wasn't called construction paper).

If you're not going to have colored paper available at the same locations that you buy crayons, what's the point of the white crayon?

My daughter has solved this problem:  she takes another crayon and colors the white crayon.  I think that's ingenius (though a bit funny) to watch.

I did find a "recipe" for melting together old crayons in the oven.  Unsurprisingly, most of the new crayon discs have white in them.  I doubt that the white actually colors any better in a disc shape than it did in stick shape, but at least it is a good base fro the other colors.

You'd just think that the company that changed (finally) got rid of "flesh" colored crayons because of public outcry would do the same with the useless "white".


...

or perhaps....

Crayola is training our children to be in the spy business with the idea of invisible ink! (cue the music)