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" />" width="500" height="214" alt="ccb" />" />Still need an inexpensive gift idea? No? You're all done?
Well, you can save this one for next year.
I know this has been done to death all over blog land, but I am posting anyway.
We needed something to give the kids at school for Christmas.
I am super happy with the way they turned out.
STEP 1
Gather all the old crayons you can find. We ended up using some of our good ones too, but Almond Joy was perfectly ok with this. She has plenty and she understood we were making something to give to her friends. It was worth a few good crayons to her.
STEP 2
Take the wrappers off. This can be time consuming, especially before you realize you can take a sharp knife to make a slit down the paper sleeve.
Your welcome.
STEP 3
Then break them up into little bits and add them to your muffin tin. Almond Joy helped me with this step. She decided which colors would work well together. Bright colors work best. We used 2-3 colors per star but you could get crazy if you wanted. We've actually done this activity before and found that using more than 5 colors just results in a muddy brick of a crayon. Not pretty.
STEP 4
Then just cook them up! Put them in the over for about 10 minutes on 300 degrees. Check on them periodically. Once they are good and melted, pull them out. Let them cool completely before popping them out of the mold. If you pull them out too early, they are likely to crack. If they do, just melt them down again. No big deal.
Here are some of my favorites!
Figuring out how to affix the stars to the paper wasn't easy either. The top sides of the crayons were a slightly concave so getting them to stick with glue wasn't possible. I didn't want to just flip them over because the bottom sides were the prettiest. Then Chuck suggested Duct Tape. And it worked. And while I didn't like the fact that Chuck thought of it before me, I went with it.
I wanted to add something regarding the true meaning of Christmas so I searched for Christmas songs with "star" in the title. 
I chose this one because it seemed simple enough for a preschooler to understand. Of course, most of our students can't read, but I thought if a parent were to read it aloud, the preschooler would be capable of absorbing it.
We made a bunch.
Interested in making Crayon Ornaments and Gift Tags?
Check these out over on twelve crafts till Christmas by clicking here.
These are great for Valentine's Day too.
See what Ellen did with them over at The Long Thread by clicking here.
She even provided a free download so you can print the card she designed!
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