I have read about recycling crayons into new, rainbow colored crayons in at least a couple of different magazines. Oh, and then there are about four posts about it from blogs that I saved too. But, I still put off doing it.
Finally, about a week or so ago, I spent part of a morning (while the boys were working on school) peeling paper off of broken crayons. I let the kids break the crayons up even more, and then throw them in a bowl together.
Shhh…don’t tell the crayon police. But, we even broke up some crayons that weren’t broken, but whose colors we just really liked.
We filled our mini heart muffin cups with the broken crayons while our oven preheated to 275 degrees. The kids loved filling up the cups.
On a side note, in the future, I would be careful about putting too many dark crayons in the same cup together. Too many dark colors together kind of overtook the crayon.
We left them in the oven for about 10 minutes. I kept an eye on them throughout. Here they are partially melted.
Let the crayons cool down before you try to pop them out of the cups. (You can actually melt them in paper cups as well — I just wanted mine to be heart shaped.)
Enjoy your cute new crayons! Maybe even share them with some friends, depending on how many you made. (In Family Fun Magazine, the craft actually went along with putting these mini heart crayons on homemade Valentines.)
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