Crayola wanted to celebrate its 110th birthday by renovating and expanding its popular interactive museum, the Crayola Experience. Since the museum focuses on providing exhibits that inspire creativity, any new play structures would need to spark young imaginations and withstand heavy kid traffic.
The 4 Kids’ team designed and constructed a friendly hippo with a dry-erase “skin.” The large surface—5.5’ long and more than 2.5’ wide—gives young artists a big canvas for their creativity, whether they’re scrawling “Aiden was here” or doodling a cartoon.
Because the Crayola Experience hosts hundreds of thousands of visitors each year, we built the custom play sculpture with super-sturdy glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP). Not only can kids write and draw on the hippo, they can safely crawl and play on it too.