Monday, July 26, 2010

Crayon Pucks!


Today was a day to clear out the craft drawers and make stuff.  I decided to make Crayon Pucks after reading the tutorial on a blog named, "Wanna Make Something Of It?".  While my son played video games, my girls and I decided to clean our house out of all the crayons we can find and recycle them.  We peeled the paper off each of the crayons (which was extremely tedious yet therapeutic), melt them in a mini muffin tray and viola!  I call them Crayon Pucks.  Call them whatever you want, I love this idea!

MATERIALS:
  • Old crayons (Crayola works best)
  • Muffin tray - keep in mind you'll be melting crayons in this so don't use something you'll use for food.  I purchased a disposable mini muffin tray.
DIRECTIONS:
  1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees Fahrenheit.
  2. Peel the paper off each of the crayons.  This may take some time so be sure to have some great conversation starters for you and your kiddos!
  3. Break each crayon in quarters.
  4. Decide which color combination suites your taste and fill the tray - Please note that in my muffin tray, the two center cups didn't heat the crayons too well so I left them empty on the 2nd and 3rd batch.  I kept my color combination to two colors per cup.
  5. Bake for 6 minutes total but checking after 3 minutes (checking at 1 minute intervals).  The total time here refers to the mini muffin trays I got.  Your baking time may vary based on your oven and the size of the muffin tray.
  6. Remove after baking and let it cool completely.  After they cooled off a bit I placed them in the freezer to speed up the cooling process.
  7. When completely cooled off, carefully pop them out of the tray onto a soft surface so they don't break.
 Peel them suckers!
Organize the crayons into what ever color combination fancy's you :)

Look how nicely they marbleize (real word?) when melted.

Oh no!  We lost one... goodbye my sweet... wait, we can still use it!  If they break, that's ok.  They're crayons for goodness sakes.  They work.

Ok now go makes some!  I'm going to purchase muffin trays in different shapes and make more for the holidays.  Our school is going food-free for treats and rewards (yay!) so this will be great giveaways for V's birthday!

Enjoy!
Thanita

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2 comments:

  1. What fun! It's also neat to make them other shapes--hearts for valentine's day, etc.

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  2. @sportzmom - Thanks! My little one has been peeling labels off crayons for the past 3 days! Hahaha! We are going to the craft store to buy the silicone muffin trays in different shapes and melt more crayons! It's just too fun!

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