Etch A Sketch Day 2026
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Today is National Etch A Sketch Day.
It is celebrated annually each July 12 and honors my first foray into crafting artworks with the play pretty invented by Frenchman Arthur Granjean in the late 1950s.
This day in 1960 the Ohio Art Company officially purchased the rights and began mass-producing the beloved silver knobbed red frame.
I would sit at the dinner table and play with the device for hours. Turning the horizontal and vertical positioning knobs in an attempt to create a true work of art ...
Achieving circles and arcs via the knobs remains lost on me to this day. I can assure you that the only legend my efforts turned me into was that one I maintained in my own mind.