crayons

crayons

At the end of the school year there are always a million and one crayons left over. They are crayons that have been used, but not used all the way. You send some home with the kids, but there are still multitudes of crayons left over. This year, I decided, will be different. My task was to figure out how to use up the extras. I remembered that one of the kindergarten teachers that I student taught with made these cool, multicolored circle crayons by melting broken crayons in muffin tins. I looked it up on the internet and it is totally easy.

freshly melted wax

You just peel the wrappers off the crayons (this is the hardest part), break them up into muffin tins that you have sprayed with cooking spray, bake them for five minutes (or less...just until it melts into each other) at 400 degrees, and wait for them to cool, then pop (or slam) them out of the trays.

circle crayons

You end up with these cute circle crayons that I am sure the kids will LOVE to take home with them. There are some other, messier ideas on how to use up your crayons posted on the internet...including melting the crayons and painting with the wax. I am sure the kids would love that, but I am not sure I would love cleaning up the leftover.

xoxo ~ stephanie