Do you have a toddler? Kid? Then perhaps you have a lot of broken crayons in your house too? Turn those broken crayons into Valentine’s Day gifts with my simple tutorial. This is seriously a no-fail, simple activity. Low on time-investiment and high on super cute outcome!
Supplies:
1. Broken crayons (I used multiple brands and sizes)
2. One silicone heart mould tray
3. Oven
4. Baking tray
To Do:
1. Peel the papers off of your crayons if they still reside there.
Next task: Find a use for these pretties
“Those crayons are nakie!”
2. Preheat oven to 250 degrees.
3. Break crayons down further to fit into the moulds. Great stress relief — snap! snap! crack!
Heart moulds + broken crayons = Meant to be
4. Put broken crayons into moulds. There does not appear to be a right or wrong way to do this. I stacked some vertically, others horizontally, and most were a little of both. I piled them as high as the top of the moulds.
So exciting!
5. Place your heart moulds onto a baking tray and place in oven for 15-18 minutes. We have a baking tray that is too gross to use but have not parted with it yet, so I used that in case there was spillover. There was no spillover.
6. Take tray out of the oven after 18 minutes and put it on the stovetop to cool. The crayons in all but two center hearts had completely melted after 15 minutes. I would not exceed 18 minutes of oven time.
Melted Crayons
7. After an hour of cooling, pop those hardened hearts out of the mould.
Look good enough to eat! But don’t!
Pop out so cleanly!
I’m obsessed with these fun colors!
That’s it! Now you have fantastic gifts! I’m going to give one to Phee’s friends along with a Valentine’s Day sticker sheet! Simple, fun and satisfying to make, and a cute way to share the love with the littles on Valentine’s Day and beyond!
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