Make your own crayons
Candy Mold
Crayons
In preparation for my son’s 2nd birthday , I have been playing around with making fun loot bag gifts. Here is my favorite so far, candy mold crayons. Super easy to make, kids love to use them to color and a huge bonus being that my son who eats every art supply under the sun seems to leave these alone!
- Gather your materials. You will need some crayons ( about 4-5 per mold), an oven , disposable muffin liners, and a candy mold. I bought this candy mold from Micahel’s for less than $2 !
- Take the paper off the crayons, and break them into smaller pieces. Place them in a muffin tin .
- Melt.
- Pour into the mold and let sit for an hour or until it’s cool. I used a cookie rack under the mold to keep it stable.
- Pop out of the mold.
- Get drawing !
Recycled crayons are fun to make and you don’t need any fancy molds for these! I decided to take advantage of the back to school prices on crayons and make a fun Halloween treat for my son, using recyclable juice boxes for a mold! Here is how I did it. Oh and you could do this technique with any colors . These chunky crayons are great for toddlers and who doesn’t need more stuff for their toddlers to do?
- Gather your materials. You will need crayons, some disposable tin foil muffin liners, a pan, some sparkles if desired , a juice box and your oven.
- Set your oven to 250 degrees or lower.
- Peel off any paper on the crayons you are using. I am using 6 orange and 3 black crayons.
- Break the crayons into smaller pieces and place them in the foil muffin liners- or a small over safe container you don’t mind getting wax all over.
- Pop them into your oven and watch carefully, they melt fast.
- Cut the top off the empty juice box.
- Once the wax is melted, pour one muffin liner full of orange wax into the juice box , put it in the fridge to solidify.
- If using sparkles pour them into the black wax now, stir and pop the pan back in the oven .
- When the wax is set in the juice box, repeat with the black wax, then the 2nd layer of orange.
- Let sit until completely dry.
- Cut the juice box and peel off the crayon.
- Color using this fun new crayon.
Make your own crayons!
Thank you Ellen who sent in this awesome activity and pictures! She is a mom with an elementary aged daughter who helped and a preschool aged son who got to play with the end result! Here’s the how to!
- Gather your materials. You will need an Oven set at 275* , a muffin tin, with liners, and all those old broken crayons we all have laying about. New ones would work too!
- Line your muffin tin with paper liners, and about half full with the crayon bits.
- Bake for about 8 minutes, watch them closely because they melt fast.
- Take them out of the oven once they are melted and let cool for 30 minutes.
- Remove the liners and get coloring! If they break put them aside and do it again!
Thanks again to Ellen for letting us share this !
If you have a craft idea or activity you have recently done with your child and want to share, send it to allie@notimeforflashcards.com along with pictures and I will gladly feature it in a future reader’s Corner!
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