Chocolate Bars
| August 30, 2017
S hopping for school supplies is great fun for students who are getting brand-new shiny unsharpened pencils crisp new binders and the most adorable new folders… but parents feel a little differently about it. After all parents everywhere know that a fair amount of these supplies are going to come home unopened and unused on the last day of school!
So if you want to calm your folks down a little you can tell them about some of these unusual school supplies and thank your lucky stars that they’re not on YOUR school-supplies list… or are they?!
Edible Pencils
What are hungry students supposed to do when lunchtime is an hour away and their stomachs are growling? In the old days you’d just have to wait till recess but some creative individuals have taken on this “problem” as a serious challenge! For example Italy’s Cecilia Felli designed a pencil that is half licorice half graphite so you can chew away innocently looking like any other student gnawing on the end of their pencil without getting told off for eating in class! Super handy… until you reach the end of the licorice and take a bite of the graphite spit it out and squeal “Yuck!” and end up in trouble for disturbing the class!
Gluten-Free Paint
We all know kindergarteners tend to do weird things. Sniffing glue tasting paint and sticking crayons up their noses are just the tip of the iceberg. So we all definitely understand the need for non-toxic supplies. But some companies are taking the extra step to ensure that every child is safe from allergens and toxins and they’re creating things like gluten-free paint glue and crayons.
While it’s a serious chesed for little kids with celiac and wheat sensitivities hopefully most high schoolers are better at washing their hands after art class and won’t be needing a special kind of paint.
Foodie Pencil Cases
When most parents look at the school-supplies list and see the words “pencil case” they may be inclined to grab the cheapest flimsiest thing off the store shelf and throw it into the overloaded shopping cart. But there are companies out there that design fun pencil cases in the shapes of different types of food and are making billions of dollars off hungry students around the world. There are pencil cases in the shape of different flavored milk cartons pita and even a heavenly scented-one in the shape of a drool-inducing chocolate bar!
And for the lactose intolerant and fleishig-lovers among us there’s also a pencil case that looks just like a ketchup and mustard topped hot dog! If you’re more of a pareve person here’s something just for you: the fish pencil case! When you zip it open you’ll be looking at not only your pens and pencils but the special fish gut design INSIDE the pencil case too… which might turn you on to science but definitely also might put you off your lunch… (Excerpted from Teen Pages Issue 675)
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