Crazy Crayons!

This weekend my mom and I made the coolest crayons I'd ever seen before. Hands down! Here is what they looked like!When I was teaching, the recycling coordinator for the district would come out and teach a lesson on re-use to classes that requsted it. She would bring broken crayons that different classrooms had collected and the kids would take the paper off and put them in mini muffin pans. She'd bake them in a portable oven and the kids would get disk-shaped "Crazy Crayons" as she called them. They loved it. My mom recently mentioned she'd seen heart shaped crayons in some magazine and I remembered I had two heart-shaped silicone ice cube trays that I never used. So we decided to give it a shot.

I lucked out and ended up finding a whole box of "naked crayons" with my teaching supplies so we had plenty to choose from!We picked out all the reds, pinks, purples, and whites for Valentine's Day. We cut the crayons into small pieces and then filled up the small ice cube trays. We "baked" them at 230 degrees and TA DA!!!!
They popped out very easily from the silicone tray (though I would not choose to use the tray for ice any more lol. I'll reserve it for crafts.)



Mateo and I had fun packaging some of these up to give away to friends and cousins and also kept a few for ourselves. I will now be on the lookout of other fun-shaped ice cube trays that could go in the oven. I envision many more "Crazy Crayons" to come. AND...what a great way to re-use those broken crayon pieces instead of throwing them away.