Chunk crayons

Because according to my daughter we "never doing anything fun" and I am "boring" I decided to look up activities for me to do with the kids. I came across doing chunk crayons by melting them in the oven. I did this a few years ago (before Kaiya was born) so I had a general idea how to do it (I referred to the instructions here: http://www.makeandtakes.com/recycled-chunky-crayons). So after the kids all woke up this morning (we were still in our pajamas), I proceeded to get the giant box of broken crayons out and started peeling. That itself was a tedious task.



But that was the part the kids thought was fun. We continued to peel the crayons and sort them.

We separated them into like colors so it was easier to pick which color crayons we wanted to make.


We put them in the muffin tin (may I recommend using muffin papers too -makes for less cleanup later and keeps your muffin tin WAX-FREE).



This was my attempt at putting them on the broiler pan. As you can see it didn't "pan" out. (my sore attempt at humor) I ended up breaking these up and melting them again in the muffin papers.



This is a batch after they had cooled. Once again, use muffin papers. It took many attempts to get these out of the pan, even though I sprayed it with non-stick spray.



These were the end results! I did most of them. Kaiya even had a friend come over and she was able to do a few too. As you can see there was a plethora of colors. Kaden even had fun picking which colors he had in his. It was a fun activity and I cleaned up the crayon box considerable. I think this is going to be a new summer ritual whenever the kids come home with broken crayons from school!