My two tiny crafters love to colour in and draw pictures, and I buy a lot of crayons as little presents for them (rather than chocolate!!!). This means we end up with a lot of broken, blunt crayons that we don't use anymore. I hate throwing them away though so I decided to have a go at recycling them into shaped crayons. The results were fabulous, the disks were a great size and shape for little fingers to hold. I have made some more and put them into little paper bags for Easter presents for my girls friends.
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| 1. Peel all the papers off the crayons. |
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| 2. Sort the crayons into colour piles and snap them into smaller pieces. |
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| 3. Put the crayon pieces into silicone moulds. We used these fish moulds. |
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| And these cupcake moulds make disk crayons. We decided to mix the colours together to make swirly crayons. |
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| 4. Give them to mummy to put into an oven. I guessed Gas Mark 4 and kept checking them. They were melted after about ten minutes. . |
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| 5. Wait for them to cool down for 30 minutes, then put them into the fridge for 10 minutes. Pop them out of the mould then voila! |
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| Lily having a good try. |
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| Daisy colouring with a fish. |
Impressive. You are both good at colouring in, I hope you are doing a picture for Granny.
ReplyDeleteOf course Granny, we are working on a Birthday project for you..... x
DeleteBrilliant idea!
ReplyDeleteThank you. I had seen so many blog posts about these but was a bit scared of trying it, I am so pleased we did!
DeleteOooh, they turned out great! The fish are a great shape for little hands aren't they..?
ReplyDeleteThanks. The girls were so pleased with them, Daisy got really excited when they changed colours as she was using them. Such fun! X
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