So, did you all have a fun weekend? The hubs and I had a full day date yesterday, it was awesome. We took Ellie with us due to our current breastfeeding situation (she’s my little sidekick these days 🙂 )and headed down to Chicago. We did a bunch of shopping at a ton of places that we have been wanting to go to for, like, ever but just never do because of the crazy that happens when you have 3 little ones with you.
Anyways, I wanted to show you what the kids and I did on Saturday. We made neat-o Bat Crayons to gear us up for Halloween this coming weekend. Did October go by super fast for anyone else?
This project is super easy, I’m sure you’ve seen it before but I just wanted to share our Batty version cause well, I just thought they were really cute! My kidlets really enjoyed doing this, I mean what kid wouldn’t want to make their own personalized crayons. It’s really a win/win project, the kidlets get to have fun peeling the wrappers off of old and broken crayons and us adults take it from there and bake the crayons. Thus, in part making us like total rock stars handing over some cool crayons in the end…we didn’t really want to do the hard part now did we?
Make-Your-Own-Crayons
Bunches of old and broken crayons
Some type of mold, like a silicon mold or even a metal mini cupcake pan (DO NOT re-use this for food!!)
Cooling rack
Your oven!!
Just unwrap your crayons and place them all broken up into your mold. Bake in your oven at 300 degrees for 10-15 minutes. Once completely melted, let cool on your cooling rack for about 30 minutes or until the crayons are hard again. Pop out and let your little artist have at those coloring book pages!
What a cute mold – these turned out great! 🙂
Great job! They are so cute! – Karen
So cute! My 11-yr-old would really enjoy this, she loves bats!
So much fun! Thanks for sharing! Kerri
Sooo stinkin cute! Love how they turned out.
LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!
Bats have never looked so darn cool :O) They are wonderful!
Kerri
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My Joann didn’t have anymore bats 🙁 but they did have a Frankenstein. I was a little worried because he was so deep but we did it and used up all of our broken crayons…the kids loved it and it worked great for our “you’ve been boo’d” bags also. Thanks for inspiring me to get off my behind and get these made (it has been on my list for a while, just no motivation but those bats are just too cute). K, long post, so I’ll finish and say thanks 😉
Not to mention while the crayons are melting (and after, while they’re cooling) you get to smell that wonderful smell of melted crayon! {I know this may sound sarcastic but it’s not… I totally LOVE that smell!!!!!}
Thank you for this! I have been looking for some advice on this since I decided it would be a craft for one of our orangechristmas.com workshops. Can I link to this post?
i love how every thing is very detailed. pictures of every step.:)and just some of the ideas ,wow. where do u come up with these? awesome!
I’m going to do these for my son’s Kinder class this year!
Thank you for this Halloween craft idea!! Great for recycling old broken crayons. We melted a bunch today with my preschool age children. 🙂
I bet if you put in multiple colors, you would get a swirly crayon and be able to color like varigated yarn or thread (it’s like a quilt stitch in a crayon!). Also, if you use those little dixie cups, you could have large grippable crayons for small hands, and can peel the paper cup off. (then you don’t have to worry about not being able to re-use the molds for food.) Kind of boring but VERY useful. OOOH, I bet you could LAYER the crayon colors and do something neat that way . . . . Just thinking out loud. Feel free to use the ideas all, and Thanks for the inspiration! – Kate
trying these today! Thanks for the idea.
Wow! Cute idea! Just shared with daughter for her children!