Trivia: Which of these crafty activities took off after debuting in the 1950s?
Paint by numbers
Macrame
Tie dye
Velvet paintings
The correct answer is Paint by numbers
So why is this answer correct? : The mission was simple: Sell more paint. Commercial artist Dan Robbins drew inspiration from Leonardo da Vinci’s teaching system (numbering sections of a canvas) to develop the “paint by numbers” concept. Robbins segmented small sections of an image with specific paint colors to make the big picture a little easier to comprehend. The masterful idea helped paint by numbers take off like a rocket, selling 20 million kits by 1955.