Your little children love to
coloring. You buy many crayons for them to color. After a long time to use,
there are many crayons are broken or too small to hold. You don't throw them
out. You can reuse them to make big, fun and funky crayons. This activity will
be more fun if you and your lovely kids do with together. You just only take
about 25 minutes and it is quite easy to create.
All you need to make these
recycled crayons is that collecting broken crayons, a muffin tin, a knife and
ready to get started. Read on this post to find out what to do.
How to recycle crayons
Follow these basic steps to turn
old and broken crayons into new crayons.
- Collect your broken and small
pieces of crayons, peel off all the paper labels on crayons and break or cut
them into small pieces.
- Preheat the oven to 250 F.
- Put these pieces of crayons in
your muffin tin with an inch-thick. You can sort one color in each cup or mix
all the colors to make rainbow crayons.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes or until
you see the wax melted evenly.
- Allow the crayons to cool and
harden, then pop them out and you have cool crayons to use.
Some tips and hints for you
- You can use foil cups to line
your regular muffin tin if you haven't got a muffin tin to put crayons. The wax
can stick to paper cups. To make fun and shaped crayons you can use molds for
candy and soap. But they must make sure that they are safe for the oven.
Silicone molds are the best ideas for you to create lots of great shapes.
Moreover, they are quite easy to pop the crayons out of these molds.
- If you have still lots of
broken crayons left after creating recycled crayons, continue to create candles
or fire starters. There are many projects you can make with old crayons such
as: Lint fire starters, Pinecone fire starters and many more.
- Try creating a solar crayon
candle if it is a sunny day. Place a wick in the center of an old cup or jar,
fill broken crayon pieces on the top and place it on an aluminum foil. The sun
will melt the crayons and you will have a full jar with melted crayons. You can
buy wicks on the store or the internet if you haven't got them on your hand.
Use wicks for various candle-making and other projects.
After recycling old crayons,
finding free printable coloring pages for your children use these recycled
crayons to color.
Here is our favorite free
printable coloring sheet. ColoringPagesOnly offers a ton of free coloring
sheets for both young children and grown-ups. This website has listed many
categories that are suitable for all of ages, for all genders such as: princesses,
hello kitty, frozen, Moana, animals... for girls; cartoon, Batman Coloring Pages, Spiderman,
transport and more for boys. You choose your child's favorite categories and
download or print out coloring sheets. Let kids use crayons, colored pencils or
markers to color. The children will use their imagination and creativity to
color for each coloring sheet.
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