Summer Boredom Buster {Make Your Own Crayons}

If the hot weather has you stuck inside try whipping up some homemade crayons!  Click here for directions.

Featured on Disney's Spoonful Blog

 Pleased to share that my crockpot crayons were featured the other day on Disney's Spoonful Blog.  

You can find the full tutorial for Crockpot Crayons here.

Make Your Own Crayons {Part 2}

Yesterday I showed you how to make your own crayons.  One of the adaptations we did to this project was to make the crayons into different shapes.  Cole really enjoyed this because he is starting to become familiar with different shapes and it was fun for him to see the shaped toilet paper rolls and then the shaped crayons.  Follow the steps listed out in yesterday's post about how to melt the wax and prepare the molds. 

 Make Your Own Crayons Supply List: 3 toilet paper rolls, crayons, small paper cups, packing tape, crock-pot

 Crease the cardboard tubes into different shapes before sealing the bottoms with packing tape.  Pour your wax and wait for them to harden.  Caution: wax will be very hot.  Please don't allow young children to pour wax.

Once your crayons are hard, pull back the toilet paper roll cardboard and get to coloring!

Make Your Own Crayons {Crayon Day}

 Today marks the anniversary of the sale of the first box of Crayola crayons.  The first Crayola crayons came in a box of 8 and sold for 5 cents.  What better way celebrate than by making your own crayons.

 Make Your Own Crayons Supply List: 2 toilet paper rolls, crayons, small paper cups, packing tape, crock-pot

Enlist a helper to peel the paper off your crayons.  We've done this project with many different types of crayons.  Crayola crayons are by far my favorite.  The wax is high quality and melts evenly.

 Divide your crayons by color and place them into the small paper cups.  Put the cups in your crock-pot and set on low for about 1 hour.  Be sure to check your crayons frequently so that you don't burn the wax.  I always use a crock-pot liner when cooking, so I used one for this project as well.

 When your crayons are melted it's time to pour them into your toilet paper rolls.  Cut your rolls in half and use the packing tape to seal off 1 end.  Placed them on a paper plate and pour the wax into the cardboard tubes.  I poured a little wax and then allowed it to set and then poured a second layer.  Caution: the wax will be very, very hot.  Please do not allow young children to pour wax.

 Allow the wax to harden completely and then tear away your toilet paper rolls.

Be sure to check back tomorrow and I'll share how we made crayons in different shapes also using toilet paper rolls.

Book Suggestion: A Day With No Crayons by Elizabeth Rusch follows a little girl named Liza on an accidental artistic adventure that comes about when her mom takes away her crayons.  Little kids will love reading about Liza's antics and discoveries.