When I was at Alex's classroom for the holiday party some parents had donated a bunch of new crayons and his teachers were going to throw away most of their old ones - most were broken and nubby. I asked to take them home instead and came home with a gallon size ziplock bag over half full!A cold snowy day in January with nothing to do the kids spent some time ripping the paper off and we set them aside.
The impending class Valentine party offered a perfect occasion to finish the process and make some fun new crayons to pass out with Valentine cards. I have been told that Crayola now makes a toy that melts and remolds crayons. We don't have that. We have some silicon baking molds I have picked up on clearance at Joann's and an old kitchen knife! I chop the crayons into smaller pieces and the kids load up the mold. Stick them in a 200 degree oven until they are melted, let them cool and then they pop right out of the molds.
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