Homemade Crayons

Having two very artistic toddlers results in a lot of broken crayons. I can remember doing this with my mom as a child and a girlfriend recently inspired me to do it with my children's broken crayons. An easy project for little ones, this only takes up to an hour.

Materials

Old cupcake tin

Broken crayons

1. Preheat oven to 350*

2. While the oven heats, have the children peel the paper off the crayons and sort them by color. (Excellent opportunity to teach small toddlers colors!)

3. Break the crayons into roughly one inch pieces (don't fuss too much about size, just small enough to fit in the bottom of the cupcake tin.)

4. Sort crayons into individual tins; we did ours by color.

5. Put the pan in the oven and shut off the heat once door is closed. Let stand until melted (about 15 minutes.) When ours were all melted, we took advantage of the cold Ohio weather and let them cool on the back porch.

6. Color! These are such a fun, inexpensive activity and the size and shape of the crayons is perfect for little hands!