Updated on January 28, 2020
If you live in a house with kids that color, you probably have some broken crayons. In our house, we get a lot of these, 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.
Instead of throwing the broken pieces away, why not make some new ones to use?
Supplies needed:
- Broken crayons
- Oven
- Silicone mold
Step One:
Grab your little helper and start peeling the labels off your old crayons. This part is super a little tedious.
Step Two:
Place your silicone liners inside a metal muffin pan. (You can use just a plain metal pan here, but it is harder to get the finished crayons out!) If you are using a silicone mold that is all one piece you can skip this step. They have some super cute molds in star, heart and other shapes that would make really fun crayons!
Step Three:
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 crayons, yellow crayons, blue crayons etc. into each mold to make a new, singular colored crayon.
Step Four:
Bake your crayons at 200 degrees for 20 – 25 minutes. We set the timer for ten minute increments to check on the crayons.
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| 10 minutes later . . . The crayons just look sort of sweaty. |
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| 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 at the whole process. |
Step Five:
Allow your crayons to cool down. Pop them out of the silicone molds.
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| Bottom of the crayon – Thank goodness! See. All swirly and pretty like I had hoped! |
Step Six:
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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