How To Melt Crayons
Give new life to your old and broken crayons by melting them to make new ones. Melting crayons is a quick and easy process. You can melt one color, two colors together or many colors together to create rainbow crayons. All you need for this craft project is a muffin pan, paper baking cups and some new or old crayons. You can also use molds to melt the crayons into different shapes, such as hearts and stars.
How To Melt Crayons
Melt your old broken crayons to make new ones!
Melt your old crayons to make new ones. It's a great way to recycle your old and broken crayons. You can also use molds to turn them info fun shapes, such as hearts and stars. Melting crayons is easy to do. However, because the process requires the use of an oven, an adult should be present at all times.
How to melt crayons:
- Remove the paper from all the crayons you want to melt.
- Break the crayons into small pieces.
- Line a muffin pan with paper baking cups. You don't need the baking cups but it makes for easy clean-up, and it is easier to peel the baking cups off the crayons than it is get the crayons out of the pan.
- Place the crayons inside the baking cups. Fill the baking cups about 3/4 full with crayons. Don't over fill. You can mix different colored crayons to make fun colors. You can also mix many colors for a rainbow look.
- Bake the crayons in the oven at 350 degrees for about 5-7 minutes.
- Once the crayons have melted, remove them from the oven and let them cool completely before removing them from the baking cups.
Crayon Apron
A wonderful product for the budding artist. This crayon apron also comes with a personalization option. You can have the child's initials or name embroidered on it.
Includes 10 crayons and pad of paper.
Make Crayon Muffins!
Use Molds to Make Different Crayon Shapes
Kids love fun shapes! Use a silicone baking mold, such as the Wilton Star Silicone Mold
Melting Colors Together
Color Chart
Melt your crayons together to make different colors. Here is a color chart to assist you.
Blue+Red = Purple
Blue+Yellow = Green
Red+Yellow = Orange
Red+White = Pink
Orange+Yellow = Gold
Crayon Keepers
Keep all your crayons organized and handy a crayon keeper. Each crayon keeper comes with 24 crayons and enough storage for 64 crayons (2 crayons in each pocket). With the crayon keeper you can take your crayons with you wherever you go.
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