Pencil Facts
We are on
letter Pp of the gratitude alphabet. P is for pencil.
What are you
thankful for that begins with the letter P?
Pencils are a wonderful creation. Who doesn't love to draw and write with pencils! You can draw and
color a cute little dinosaur with colored pencils. Let me tell you
about the modern pencil lead. Did you know that the modern pencil lead was invented
by a man named Nicholas-Jacques Conte. He was a scientist and a French painter who
invented the modern pencil lead in 1795.
Facts about
pencils:
1. Sometime
in 1564 graphite became very popular.
2. Conrad
Gessner made the first depiction of a wood pencil in 1565. He had a drawing
published that depicted a long thin piece of graphite inside a tube of wood.
3. In 1662
Nuremberg Germany created the first mass produced pencils.
4. In 1812 William
Munroe made the first American wood pencils.
5. Sometime
In 1858 Hymen Lipman made the first pencil with an eraser attached to it.
6. An
average sized tree when cut can make about 170,000 or more pencils. That is a
lot of pencils.
7. One
pencil can write on average around 45,000 words. That is enough words to write
a short story!
8. A pencil
can write in space because it doesn’t depend on gravity.
9. Ernest Hemingway
said, “If you write with a pencil, you get three different sights at it to see
if the reader is getting what you want him to. First when you read it over and
then when it is typed you get another chance to improve it, and again in the
proof. Writing it first in pencil gives you one-third more chance to improve
it.
Pencils are
amazing! You can write a novel, or you can draw a masterpiece with pencils. So,
get out those pencils and start writing or drawing!!
Can you
share a pencil fact with us?
Get your free printable coloring worksheet here:
Books about
pencils:
1. My Pencil
and Me by Sara Varon
2. Pencils
You Should Know: by Caroline Weaver
3. Art's
Supplies by Chris Tougas
4. Pencil: A
Story With A Point by Ann Ingalls
Parents make
sure books are child friendly before reading them to your child/children.
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