"Draw" children"s attention with these gourmet-scented, environmentally friendly pencils. Each pencil is contained in an individual biodegradable plastic tube for freshness. This set includes five graphite pencils in five delicious scents. The pencils are made by sheets of newspaper tightly wrapped around the graphite writing cores until pencils of typical thickness are formed. Then they"re hardened - allowing them to be sharpened just like wood pencils. Next, they are soaked with gourmet liquid scents (made by an award winning fragrance company). Once they"re dry, the erasers are attached stickers are applied around them that identify which scent was infused into each Smencil. Lastly, each Original Smencil is put into its own corn-based biodegradable Freshness Tube.