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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!
11 Comments
what a cute idea! (I might do this with my five year old nephew) :)
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ReplyDeleteI love how you paired it with the song! Great idea!
ReplyDeleteSo adorable. Great idea.
ReplyDeleteThe Crayons are Beautiful and Love how you gifted them with a song :)
ReplyDeleteYour daughter did a great job with the colors :)
Hayley,
ReplyDeleteThis so neat. I love this craft and I think my Bible study ladies would really like it as ornaments. When we complete a Beth Moore study I give them a smiley face sticker and they love that. Maybe next Christmas you and "Almond Joy to the world" can help me do some.
Blessings to you!
Love,
Aunt Janice
This perfect for you and your 5 year old nephew Katie. You'll be the EXTRA cool, craft aunt then.
ReplyDeleteThanks Miz Liz. I think she did a great job too. In fact, I made some another day on my own, and mine paled in comparison.
Ha! "Almond Joy to the world"! That is funny stuff. We'd love to Janice. We'll put Almond Joy in charge, then she'll REALLY get into it.
Thanks Elizabeth!
ReplyDeleteThanks Ma.
ReplyDeleteThat's cool! I still have my Reese's Cup shaped green ones that you and Charley sent us a long time ago. They are in my display shelf in the dining room with a little toy lamb Charley left at my house last time she was here sitting on top of them. It looks like the lamb is sitting on top of a swirly green peanut butter cup-shaped hillside. Pretty cute.
ReplyDeleteHey can you find some molds that are shaped like big pencils or those fat crayons that are for little kids? That may sound not easy, but I bet you could find 'em pretty easily. They may not be as cute as hearts and stars, but they would be easy to use, and it would be a mysterious project to see how your art would turn out. I don't know..
I remember once I left some crayons baking in the sun on the cream-colored railing on the back/side porch. Ma didn't see them for a couple of days, so they got real good and melted. I belieeeeeeeeve I got a whoopin for that. I thought it made a pretty rainbow stain there on the rail to always remind us of our childhood, but I'm pretty sure Ma thought it made a ghetto crayon mess on our house that woulda been really expensive to fix. People have different interpretations of things, see?
I forgot that we gave you some of those sister! Sweet of you to save them. I won't mention the lamb thing to Charley, k? Then you can keep your little scene.
ReplyDeleteNever have seen any of those molds. Yeah, this aren't set up for ease of use. The are mainly just good for the awe factor when giving. That is what is MOST important right?
I CAN see how people have different interpretations of things and that was a REAL good example. You have always been a good 'splainer.