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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Melted crayon art first took my breath away about a year ago, but Child Central Station’s adaption of the art finally pushed me to give it a go with N&M.

We peeled away the paper crayon lining.

We placed something heavy on top of the crayons and turned our hair dryers on.

We watched what happened.

The crayons started to melt. It was exciting.

The crazy combination of melting crayons and force from the hair dryer created something fascinating before our very eyes.

N & M added more colours. Art was in progress.

They asked for more paper. They continued creating.

Lesson learnt: melted crayons can be a good thing, a very beautiful good thing.

N & M: 3 y.o.

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