my daughter is 27 1/2 months and has been coloring since 15 months. She LOVES to color, so I have some old broken crayons stored away to see if I can use them in any way for crafts. Any ideas out there???
2006-11-01 09:32:47 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Toddler & Preschooler
I think you could melthem and make color crayon balls. Just don't let them melt to much to the point when the colors mix.
Their right candles would be lovely.
HAVE FUN!
2006-11-01 09:36:14 · answer #1 · answered by Gabri 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could melt the crayons between two pieces of wax paper with an iron and then let the crayons harden together. After that you cut the wax paper with the crayon still inbetween melted, to any design you want and hang it up and use it as a sun catcher or just a decoration. There lots of fun if you have the right colors.
2006-11-01 10:08:54 · answer #2 · answered by whitney 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who says you have to use the typical craft stuff to have fun? Got mini marshmallows and toothpicks (or uncooked spaghetti noodles)? Let you child have fun "building" with those materials. Or how about other dried noodles strung on some thread for making fun necklaces? Two year olds love to sort and pour things. Once again, dried noodles (or pony beads) a coffee scoop and plastic bowls to the rescue. If your crayons are broken, take the paper off, break them up into small pieces, put them into metal cupcake pans (or, even better, a metal candy pan in a fun shape) and melt them in a warm (200 degree) oven for about 15 minutes. When they harden they become fun "rainbow" crayons if you mixed lots of different colors pieces together. Or go outside, grab a leaf or two, put it under your paper and do some rubbings with a crayon. Lots of ideas out there if you just think outside the box a little. Enjoy!
2016-05-23 05:38:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I once took a bunch of broken crayons and separated red from blue from yellow and so on. I melted the yellows together and poured the wax into a duck shaped cookie cutter, the blues into a sailboat cookie cutter, red in to an apple cookie cutter, etc...
Get a cookie sheet and put some wax paper on it. then put the cookie cutters on the wax paper. You can put the whole pan in the fridge if you want to speed up the cooling process. When they are cooled off, just pop them out of the cutters and color away!
My kids thought I was the coolest mom around when I did that!
I would recommend not using the cutters again for anything edible!
2006-11-01 09:47:37 · answer #4 · answered by lisa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Besides the new crayons, and candles there was something we did sometimes. Take a few different colors, and using a butter knife slide it down the sides of the broken crayons to make shavings. Get 2 pieces of wax paper. Put one on the table, and you and your child can sprinkle on shavings in patterns or pictures. Then cover with 2nd piece of wax paper, and using your iron on a low setting, iron the pieces of wax paper together. Then the shavings melt and you get cool pictures. My kids loved it!
2006-11-01 09:59:50 · answer #5 · answered by Kristine M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Crayola has a cute little crayon maker. It works like an Easy Bake oven with a light bulb. It even comes with wrappers so your 'new' crayons look just out of the box! Below is the link from Yahoo! shopping.
2006-11-01 12:01:25 · answer #6 · answered by bloodfairyx 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My mom had a hot plate and we used to make melted crayon pictures (with supervision, of course). Take white paper, put it over the hot plate and put chunks of crayon on it. When they melt, fold the paper in half and open it again.
I just saw a toy a few days ago that Crayola makes that melts your broken crayon and makes swirled new ones. I think I saw it in Target or Toys R Us.
2006-11-01 11:20:33 · answer #7 · answered by eli_star 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can melt them down and make crazy crayons out of them. You melt them almost all the way down, and mix a few colors together, swirling them around. Mixes up the colors and they look pretty too. Or you could make some VERY pretty candles out of them.
2006-11-01 09:37:49 · answer #8 · answered by Crystal 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Candles are a great way to utilize broken crayons. Or, you could take pieces and "iron" a design on thick parchment. (For this to not completely ruin your iron, I recommend a thin fabric and wax paper. Place the broken bits of crayon in a design on your parchment paper, cover with wax paper, then cover this with the thin fabric. You'll be amazed at the effects.)
2006-11-01 09:37:26 · answer #9 · answered by Finnegan 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have been told that they make great candles....but you can also recycle them and melt them down.
I saw one program where they separated the pieces by colors, melted them with a double boiler, and used large straws (like drinking straws) to mold new ones. Once they cooled and dried, they used a blade to slit the side of the straw and remove the new crayon from the straw mold.
But hey, don't burn your fingers!
2006-11-01 09:37:16 · answer #10 · answered by Hurricane 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋