Crazy crayons got me motivated to try recycling our own crayons and making some new crayons.
Just the other day Sam was coloring and purposely broke a crayon in half, then handed it to me and said "this one is broken, I need new crayons". This ended her coloring session for the day and we had to have a long talk about why we need to be more careful with our things. But sometimes crayons do break on their own. We have a lot of little broken crayons that I insist to Sam are still usable but she refuses to color with.
Today I grabbed all those little pieces and tried out making our own crayons. I actually have a tree mold from making christmas candy, so I made tree crayons today!
Super simple stocking stuffer made entirely from stuff I already had! LOVE THAT!!
Have a homemade Christmas (yes, I am now using the name. who are we kidding...Christmas will be here before we know it!) post up already that you would like to share? Please leave the link in the comment section, I would love to see what you are making and share some green christmas ideas on my facebook page as well.
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The Nitty Gritty!
This is a project that Sam could have helped with and if it weren't a stocking stuffer for her too I would have let her help. She would have loved peeling all the paper off the crayons and breaking them into even smaller pieces. I would have had to do the oven part of it but she could have helped me pop them out of the molds.
I can see this being a fun kid project that we will do again in the future!
This is such an awesome idea! Thanks for sharing; we're definitely doing this.
Posted by: Family Wilds | 11/07/2011 at 06:09 PM