Updated on June 19, 2024
DIY Recycled Crayons. Use your broken crayons and recycle them to be used for many more months to come.
If you live in a house with kids that color, you probably have some broken crayons.
We get many of these in our house, especially since my one-year-old loves to dump things. She dumps out the bucket of crayons at least once a week. This results in a LOT of broken crayons.
How to Make Crayons from Broken Pieces
Instead of throwing the broken pieces away, why not make some new ones to use?
Supplies
- Broken crayons
- Oven
- Silicone mold
Unpeel Wrappers Off Crayons
Grab your little helper and start peeling the labels off your old crayons. This part is tedious, so watch a movie or listen to music – anything to make the time go faster.
Place Broken Crayons into Silicon Molds
Place your silicone liners inside a metal muffin pan. You can use a plain metal pan here, but getting the finished crayons out is harder!
You can skip this step using a silicone mold that is all one piece. They have super cute molds in stars, hearts, and other shapes that would make fun crayons!
Fill your molds with broken crayon pieces. We added a whole hod podge of different colored crayons to each mold. You could also sort all your red, yellow, blue, etc., into each mold to make a new, singular-colored crayon.
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Bake Crayons
Bake your crayons at 200 degrees for 20 – 25 minutes. We set the timer for ten-minute increments to check on the crayons.
10 minutes later . . . the crayons look sort of sweaty.
25 minutes later . . . finished crayons. At this point, I was silently freaking out, thinking the crayons were going to be all one color. I was starting to get pretty disappointed with the whole process.
Allow your crayons to cool down. Pop them out of the silicone molds.
Bottom of the crayon – Thank goodness! See. All swirly and pretty like I had hoped!
Enjoy your new color creations! :)
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Denise says
what an *awesome* idea!
I remember growing up, I hated the broken crayons!
We are starting to collect lots of broken crayons, and this seems like a great way to make broken crayons interesting.
Thanks for the tip!
Emily says
I saw you over at tip junkie! Cute idea! My sister has done something similar with broken crayons! I love how yours turned out!
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