So, I saw this great project for recycled chunky crayons from the makesandtakes website. I decided we just had to do it. It looked like a lot of fun. So, first I had to go out and buy some candy molds..since I didn’t have any. We found some fun ones.
Next, we had to start breaking up the crayons. I thought we had a million broken crayons without the paper…but I was surpised how quickly we ran out of them. So, I had to start taking the paper off all the crayons…and that was not fun! It got tough..some of the paper was almost glued on the crayons!
I had to break out a knife and start cutting the paper off!
But River had a great time breaking up the crayons into tiny pieces. She got very good at it…and in no time at all…we had the molds filled! I didn’t want to do all 24 hearts..I thought that was a bit too many….
Once we had the molds filled…we followed the directions and put them in the oven at 225 degrees for about 10 minutes. They came out perfect……we didn’t swirl them anymore…they seemed great just the way they were…some of the crayons were metallic..so those had a neat look to them.
We waited for them to cool..which was the hard part! Once they were cool….we poked them out of the molds……
And finally River got to color with them! It was a lot of fun. Now, my ten year old wants to do it!
