Five Colors is a family owned business established officially in February, 2000.  It is located in southwestern Pennsylvania in Scottdale, which is about 45 minutes south of Pittsburgh.  Our first product, the Good News Crayons, was available for sale as of August 1, 2000 and was followed shortly after by The Good News Coloring Book in early September, 2000.

Our products are designed with the missionary and Sunday school teacher in mind.  We believe that both the crayons and coloring book are great tools to help present the plan of salvation in terms that children can understand.  We are trying to keep our prices low enough so that our products can be used in settings where a large number of children can be reached for Christ.

The idea for the crayons (which then led to the coloring book) was formulated when watching a puppet presentation at Word of Life International Teens Involved in 1998 at Schroon Lake, NY.  A junior high puppet team had a presentation with the puppets in a crayon factory.  This began my thinking of using crayons like the Wordless Book.  I work with teens and help them learn to witness to children and I thought this would be an excellent tool to use.  Everyone else also thought this was a great idea, but no one was willing to take the step to design the product and market it.  Since no one else would do it, I decided to do it myself.  Therefore, Five Colors was formed.

The name Five Colors was used since our initial products use the five colors of the Wordless Book and hence defines what our company is all about.  Our products will be tools that can be used in witnessing to children.