MAKE YOUR OWN CRAYONS
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MAKE YOUR OWN CRAYONS
Use up your old broken and battered crayons to create
these terrific crayon buttons that children love.
1. Peel off the paper that may remain on the old stubby
crayons.
2. A. Line muffin tins with paper cups or
B. Use baby food lids prepared with spray oil.
3. Put the crayon stubs into each cup or lid. You can
use as many or as few as you'd like but don't make them too thin for the children to use. Let the kids decide if they want to color sort the stubs or create rainbow crayons by mixing the colors put into each cup/lid.
4. You can also make striped crayons this way, simply
allow the first color to cool before adding another
color.
5. Melt in a 300-degree Fahrenheit oven for 10 to
15 minutes. (Or however long your oven takes to melt
the wax.)
6. Allow to cool completely. Remove the paper cups
or "pop" from jar lids.
These crayons make great "rubbings" over textured
surfaces using a piece of drawing paper.
