There are broken bits of crayons littering every corner of my home. Until they make unbreakable crayons or my kids get beyond the age of coloring, I’m sure there will continue to be an abundance of broken bits of crayons. Fortunately, those broken bits can be made whole again in a few easy steps.
1. Preheat oven to 250° and have a silicone baking tray at the ready.
2. Remove all paper wrappings from broken bits of crayons.
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3. Place broken bits of crayon in silicone mold. I chose star-shaped molds because I thought the points of the stars would be useful for coloring, but you can use any shape you like.
4. Fill the mold with crayon pieces (you can separate the pieces by hue or just mix them up like we did) then place the silicone tray in the oven for about 20-25 minutes.
5. Once the crayons melt and turn “soupy”, remove them from the oven and let them cool. We put them in the fridge to speed up the process.
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6. When cool the crayons will come out of the mold easily and you will be left with
a lovely constellation of colors. These multicolored ones change color as you draw…trippy dude.
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Very cool! I have lots of broken crayons in our home as well. This will be great!
Wow that is really cool and great idea!
These look fantastic! Now I need to get some silicone trays.
What an ingeniously clever idea!
Why thank you! It was actually pretty fun. Put Pie got tired of it before Unknown Papi and I did. We were having a good time doing it.
Clever idea – do you know if you need to worry about it burning if left too long in the oven?
I’m sure eventually it would burn, but 250° is pretty low so it would take awhile.
We accidentally left ours in there for a while on 300 and it didnt take real long for them to be burn, so I would keep an eye out. They ended up turning a dark brown color.
Good to know, thanks!
Clever idea – do you know if you need to worry about it burning if left too long in the oven?
Lovely. Great idea of my kiddos.
Ooh! Ooh! You so totally just reminded me of elementary school! We used to have so much fun with these… making psychadelic LSD-hallucination pictures with our multicolored mishmash crayons…
Pretty stars!! I love the multi color look that the crayons made. I’m going thru the crayon boxes this weekend to make some!!
What a cool idea! I may just do this with my daughter & her friend this weekend!
That is so awsome!
What a great idea! That’s my kind of cooking. 😀
Those stars are sooooooo pretty and cool, even if you never colored with them!
I LOVE this idea!
I think I’ll make some and put them in a ball jar and leave them out for decor!
I have to say that I love the way they look. They are really pretty and make me want to make more.
Great recipe! My preschoolers would love this. In fact it would make a wonderful gift for the end of the year.
Great idea…and hey, they look super cool!!
They look awesome! Where did you get those silicone trays?
Whoa, weird…I was just at your blog. I the trays at Michael’s, but you can get them via Amazon. I couldn’t find them anywhere else.
Need to get a silicon baking tray real quick. There was this time when we’d have bits of playdoh all over the house – and well – it became our favorite stress relieving method 🙂 – kneading it all back together after softening it. And no sooner was it ready, that Vidur would stuff it in the toy and get those hair-like squiggles emerge from the scalp. Grr 😀
Your “new” star shaped crayons look fabulous! (I missed you, too!)
Fabulous!
Where were you about a month ago when we all bought Crayola Crayon Makers for Christmas??? LOL. This is a MUCH better idea with a much better outcome!
What a fun idea!! I’ve seen this on Pinterest once and I wanted to try it…
I saw this on Pinterest and thought it was a great idea. Also a great idea for party favors! Hope you have a fun weekend.
Fun! 🙂
This is great, love the marbling effect, would make a great gift!!
We did end up giving some away. I think they would be great for kid’s party favors.
Well, what do you know? This IS a cool post!!!! xoxo
Sometimes I can bring it with the cool.