New Crayons

I am not crafty. I have come to terms with the fact that I have many talents, craftiness is NOT one of them. I do plenty of arts&crafts type activities with the preschoolers, but I have to find all of the ideas online and would never use any of our creations to decorate my home. (Oh yeah, decorating is not one of my talents either...)

Anyway- this is the extent of my "hey, what a cute idea- I can do that!" skills. Preschool has officially ended for summer, at least for the next two weeks, so I decided to use all the broken and flat-tipped crayons that have been well used and repurpose them for some easy-grip crayons for Bennett. Success!

Step One- take off all the paper. 

Step Two- break into small pieces and place in cupcake liners

I grouped color families together, but didn't want them mixing too much.

Step Three- Bake at 200* for about 15 minutes. Easy. 

Step Four- Put them in the fridge to cool and then peel off the wrapper! How fun do these look??

I did read online that Crayola brand are the best kind to use and boy, was that right! A few RoseArt brand snuck into the yellow/orange crayon and left a layer of yucky wax at the top of the crayon. It looked like I spilled bacon grease on it or something. That one doesn't work very well, but all the rest are great!

Did Bennett enjoy them? Oh, sure. He put them right here...