melting crayons

our labor day was a rainy one. we made the best of it while simultaneously finding use for all of those broken crayons!

 

  

  

  

  

we first shredded the crayons using a cheese grater.   then we pored them out over a piece of paper and on top of that, placed wax paper.  i ironed the wax paper until all of the crayon shreds melted, then we peeled back the wax paper.  after our design cooled, we cut out a heart and other shapes (not pictured).

i have also seen people just break up the crayons and put them in muffin pans.  you can melt the wax in the oven, and when it cools, you have one big multi-colored crayon!  i thought it might be a fun idea to stick a wick in each "crayon muffin" and when it cools, you will have a candle.  maybe a nice xmas idea?!