AI Shelf Index · 2026 holiday shopping season

Crayola AI shopping shelf share

🧸 Toys · 🇺🇸 US · updated 12 Oct 2026

Standing

#11

Toys · US

#12 #11

Shelf-share

1.1%

of US answers

1.4% 1.1%

Sentiment

100%

positive

No week-to-week change larger than the variation between readings.

Who's on the toys shelf

1 LEGO
16.6%
2 Magna-Tiles
15.3%
3 POP MART
8.4%
4 PicassoTiles
3.8%
5 Tonies
3.2%
6 Yoto
3.0%
⋯
11 Crayola
1.1%

The shoppers Crayola wins

The same answers, sliced by the shopper the question implies — where Crayola ranks best.

Where Crayola wins the journey

Its rank at each phase of the shopping journey — from first awareness to the moment of purchase.

Awareness

#10

1.9%

Research

#9

2.2%

Comparison

#15

1.0%

Validation

—

not surfaced

Purchase

#13

1.4%

Where the engines differ

ChatGPT
2.6%
Google AI Mode
0.0%

What AI says about Crayola

Observed from the answers themselves — not a score.

Sentiment

100% positive · no negative mentions

Price framing

framed budget

53% budget, 47% mid

“🥉 Crayola Story Creator — about $32–35 Crayola Story Creator $31.97 This is my sleeper pick.”

ChatGPT

“Example: Crayola Inspiration Art Case.”

ChatGPT

“Crayola 115pc Imagination Art Set $27.49 I'd spend: about $20–$40.”

ChatGPT

“Current testing from Good Housekeeping involved real 3–5-year-olds, while the Toy Association's 2026 preschool finalists also include MAGNA-TILES, Melissa & Doug, Crayola, and Bluey-related toys.”

ChatGPT

Products AI names

The specific Crayola items the engines put in front of US shoppers.

  • Imagination Art Set with Case 0.3%
  • 115pc Imagination Art Set 0.2%
  • Light-Up Activity Board 0.2%
  • Color Wonder Magic Light Brush 0.1%
  • 115-piece Imagination Art Set with Case 0.1%
  • Color Wonder Set 0.1%
  • art case 0.1%
  • Silly Putty 4-Pack 0.0%

Shelved alongside

Brands the engines recommend in the same answers as Crayola.

How to read this

Bar is how often that brand is recommended in the same answer as Crayola, relative to the rest.

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Holiday Shopping 2026 · reading updated 11 Oct. An independent measurement by Slingso; not affiliated with Crayola.