Recycle your crayons
Over the weekend my Lovies and I decided to go through their toy box. At the very bottom we found broken toys, missing pieces to Legos, train tracks, doll parts and tons of broken crayons. Don’t ask me how crayons make it in the toy box but they always seem to be in there. Instead of throwing them away this time around, we collected them all recycled them. Really easy to do.
remove wrapping from crayon then break them further if necessary to fit in mini cupcake cups
place in 200 degrees preheated oven and bake for approx 15 minutes or until melted. Let cool and peel the paper off. My kids wanted to mix the colors together but you don’t have to.
Oh, and I must thank one my best bloggy friends for a lovely package I received in the mail over the weekend. Thanks Sandy! They’re beautiful!! Pay her blog, Sandy A La Mode, a visit. A truly lovely blog by a lovely girl.
Tags: baking crayons, crayon project, make new crayons out of old ones, recycle crayons, what to do with broken crayons
I love the crayon thing, that is totally awesome. What a fun weekend project.
Yay for gifts too
Isn’t Sandy such a sweetie??! What a lovely package – so fun to get things like that in the mail! I was laughing about the crayons at the bottom of toy boxes! seems so true!
What a great idea for the crayons. I bet I have a lot that are broken down and this would make for a great project.
Fantastic idea for the old crayons! My mother in law runs a preschool and I am thinking she might like this project.
PS Love the little girl beds. I sometimes wonder where my fascination with pillows comes from, and then I see beds like the last one below, and I remember why I love them so.
I remember getting some crayons like that as a kid and LOVING them. Love it! Off to visit Sandy!
Great idea! Thanks for sharing the idea!
-Jessica
oh cool, what a neat crayon redo project!!! love how they are all colorful now!
and i’m glad you like your package, i know the hairpins will look soo pretty on you!
thanks for the link love, sweetie!!!
great project! i can do that with my little nieces crayons! : ) and i so love sandy!
I love this idea. I have a ton of broken crayons. This is a must do. Thanks for sharing.
I was just thinking about doing that with our crayons. I have been saving pieces in a ziplock bag in a drawer for awhile now. I’ve been saving it for a rainy day project.
I used to do that with our crayons when my 2 oldest kids were toddlers! It’s great to reuse items! Especially those pesky broken crayons.
I am now going to keep a jar in the kitchen with all the bits of crayon I find and generally toss…do you have any tricks for lego or polly pocket?
We did the same thing as favours for my daughter’s 3rd birthday. We used candy molds to get animal shaped crayons. My daughter had a blast mixing the colours, too!
What a neat idea!
aw, such fun with the little ones, great idea! lovely hairpins from sandy, she has such a beautiful blog too
great idea and pretty pretty pics too!
such a sweet idea! definitely going to make these…when i have kids
i love sandy too
j.