DIY: recycled crayons

Okay, raise your hand if your kids like to color.

Keep your hand raised if you have a ton of broken crayons.

Now, keep your hand raised if you have broken crayons from your husband's childhood..... and my hand is still in the air.

Awhile back, I saw this tutorial on recylcing crayons over at Makes and Takes and, I knew my little artist would think they're pretty cool.

Step one: Take all the paper off crayons

Step two: Pre-heat your oven to 275*

 Step Three: Cut the crayons up (Note: I should've used a paper plate to cut the crayons on because, cleaning this cutting board wasn't really that fun.)

Step four: fill your mini-muffin tin or your regular sized muffin tin. The tutorial I originally followed said to spray sooking spray in the tins but, I didn't and they still dropped out real easy.

Step five: Put in oven for 7-8 minutes. (Watch closely)
Step six: Remove from oven, swirl crayons with a toothpick(optional) and let cool. I put ours in the fridge to speed up the process.

 Norah loves counting them and Henry says they taste delish.

Enjoy!