kiddy DIY super cute crayons
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Ever since our melted crayon art, N & M have been asking to melt crayons every couple of days. We finally melted crayons again this week, but instead of melting crayons onto a piece of paper, I thought we’d try melting crayons into some silicone moulds.
We broke up some crayons
and placed them into the moulds.
Then we put our hair dryer to work. We used a low fan setting so the crayons didn’t blow away.
We waited for the crayons to set.
After a few minutes, when the crayons had hardened again, we popped them out of the moulds and wow – we had some really cute crayons!
M created some crayon grapes.
N created some crayon ducklings.
They admired their crayon creations,
played with them,
and rearranged them around a bit.
Who would have thought melting stuff with a hair dryer could be so fun?
We may try chocolate next. Yum.
N & M: 3 years, 4 months.
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What a cute & clever idea! We have plenty of broken old crayons I need to try this. Thanks for the idea & for linking up to Living Life Intentionally Linky Party!
Great bit of recycling! And looks like the kids enjoyed it!
Thanks for sharing on Kids Get Crafty!
Maggy
Hi Maggy,
The kids enjoyed it – melting stuff is such an engaging activity
. Pleasure to be part of Kids Get Crafty.
I love the idea of using a hair dryer to melt crayons in real time!
Thanks for linking up to Afterschool =)
Hi Maryanne,
Melting stuff is so much fun and the hair dryer is such an easy tool to use. Thanks for popping by.
Hey! I do hair dryer stuff with stamping and art for myself but never thought of doing it with the kids. Did you see at earth sky sea child they had a recent post on recycling crayons but not with a hair dryer. http://earthskyseachild.blogspot.com/2011/11/recycling-old-crayons.html also from EARLY PLAY AUSTRALIA
Hi Lesley,
Thanks for the tip. I like earth sky sea child’s crayon recycling ideas. Will have to give it a go when we’ve built up our supplies of broken crayons.