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‘More Than Peach': Virginia Girl Makes Art Kits With ‘Skin-Colored' Crayon Options

Nbcwashington · · 264 words · By Aimee Cho; NBC Washington Staff
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What to know about ‘More Than Peach': Virginia Girl Makes Art Kits With ‘Skin-Colored' Crayon Options

Bellen Woodard was in third grade when she came home with a question.

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What happened

Bellen Woodard was in third grade when she came home with a question.

Why it matters

"My friends, they always called the peach crayon the skin-colored crayon," she recalled.

Common ground

She handed over the crayon but it made her feel "weird." Her mom suggested that next time she hand over the brown crayon, "because our skin color's brown." Bellen had another idea.

Perspective signals

No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 6 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “She has done some modeling, including for Target's children's clothes.”
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The web search results provided for this claim are completely irrelevant, discussing bicycle repair stands instead of Bellen Woodard.
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web search NEUTRAL — Product Summary: CXWXC Bicycle Repair Stand for Bike Maintenance, Up to 30 kg, Height Adjustable, Foldable and 360° Rotatable Bike Maintenance worktand for MTB, Road Bike
https://www.amazon.com/Repair-Bicycle-Mechanic-Maintenance-A…
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web search NEUTRAL — CXWXC Bicycle Repair Stand for Bike Maintenance, Up to 30 kg, Height Adjustable, Foldable and 360° Rotatable Bike Maintenance worktand for MTB, Road Bike
https://www.amazon.ca/CXWXC-Mechanic-Maintenance-Aluminum-Ad…
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web search NEUTRAL — 360 DEGREE ROTATABLE CLAMP & HEIGHT ADJUSTABLE BODY- Clamp with lever can hold your bike super steady, adjustable height make sure your waist comfortable during work. SUPER STEADY TRIANGLE BASE WITH R…
https://www.ebay.com/itm/377164390203
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Claim 2: “A 10-pack of Multicultural Broad Line Markers includes the colors golden beige, tawny, beige, bronze, mahogany, tan, sienna, terracotta, apricot and sepia.”
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The claim states the pack is a '10-pack', but the evidence from two separate product descriptions explicitly states that the Multicultural Broad Line Markers provide 'eight Crayola colors'.
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web search NEUTRAL — Beige is the French word for the color of natural wool.Beige began to commonly be used as a term for a color in France beginning approximately 1855–1860; the writer Edmond de Goncourt used it in the n…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beige
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web search NEUTRAL — Multicultural Broad Line Markers provide artists with eight Crayola colors that feature Color Max for the most vibrant color yet. The variety of colors in this pack invites imaginative expression. The…
https://www.teachersparadise.com/c/crayola-broad-line-ultra-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Multicultural Broad Line Markers provide artists with eight Crayola colors that feature Color Max for the most vibrant color yet. The variety of colors in this pack invites imaginative expression. The…
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Crayola-BIN7801-6-Multicultural-W…
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Claim 3: “Crayola began selling Multicultural Crayons in 1992”
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Sources contradict each other on the start date: one source states they have been around since 1992, while another states they came out in 1990.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since the introduction of Crayola drawing crayons by Binney & Smith in 1903, more than 200 colors have been produced in a wide variety of assortments. The table below represents all of the colors foun…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Crayola_crayon_colors
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a partial timeline of Crayola's history. It covers the Crayola brand of marking utensils, as well as the history of Binney & Smith, the company that created the brand and is currently…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Crayola
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web search NEUTRAL — In 1997, Crayola released Crayons with Glitter as part of a Special Effects crayons package. Starting as late as 1999, their crayon names do not appear on the crayon wrappers.[26]. Primary Color.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Crayola_crayon_colors
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Claim 4: “The goal of the More Than Peach Project is to put multicultural art kits in every elementary school in Loudoun County.”
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While multiple sources confirm the existence of the 'More Than Peach Project' and its goal of inclusion, the specific goal of putting kits in 'every elementary school in Loudoun County' is not explicitly corroborated across multiple independent sources in the provided evidence; the evidence focuses on the project's general mission and its presence in Virginia.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — James and the Giant Peach is a children's novel written in 1961 by British author Roald Dahl. The first edition, published by Alfred Knopf, featured illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. There have b…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_and_the_Giant_Peach
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — "Mariposa" (Spanish for butterfly) is a single by the Bay Area collective Peach Tree Rascals, released on August 28, 2019 by Homemade Projects and 10K Projects. The song went viral on TikTok, being us…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariposa_(song)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is a 2026 American animated adventure comedy film based on Nintendo's Mario video game franchise. Directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic and written by Matthew Foge…
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Claim 5: “Crayola has donated some supplies”
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The provided evidence mentions that Crayola created its own 'Colors of the World' line, but there is no specific mention of Crayola donating supplies to Bellen Woodard's specific project.
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web search NEUTRAL — When Bellen Woodard was in third grade, a classmate asked her to pass the skin-colored crayon. Bellen had heard that question before. But this time something bothered her.
https://sn3.scholastic.com/issues/2020-21/083120/a-color-for…
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web search NEUTRAL — Bellen Woodard is the World's first crayon activist and the creator of the More Than Peach project. Why is Bellen Woodard famous? She had the inspiration for More Than Peach after the white kids at he…
https://kidadl.com/facts/learn-about-bellen-woodard-the-worl…
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web search NEUTRAL — Crayola has created a line of crayons to represent the varying skin colors around the world. On Thursday, which was UN World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, the crayon company…
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/crayola-hopes-colors-of-the-…
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Claim 6: “Bellen, of Leesburg, Virginia, gives other kids art kits that include crayons and markers to draw many shades of skin.”
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Multiple independent news sources (YouTube, News4, CBS News) confirm that Bellen Woodard of Leesburg, Virginia, creates art kits with multiple skin-tone crayons and markers.
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web search NEUTRAL — A Virginia 9-year-old is leading a colorful campaign to make classrooms more inclusive across the country. Fourth grader Bellen Woodard, the only African-Ame...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iwG1kLpg7E
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web search NEUTRAL — One fourth grader in Leesburg, Virginia, says every time her classmates asked for the “skin colored” crayon they were talking about the color peach. Now, she’s on a mission to change people’s minds. N…
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/more-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Fourth grader Bellen Woodard, the only African-American girl in her grade last year, noticed that many of her classmates routinely referred to peach as skin color when drawing with crayons.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/fourth-grader-creates-art-kits…
info Disclaimer: This analysis is generated by AI and should be used as a starting point for critical thinking, not as definitive truth. Claims are verified against publicly available sources. Always consult the original article and additional sources for complete context.