The Mom I Want to Be

 

Gather your materials. You will need an Oven set at 275, a muffin tin, with liners, and all those old broken crayons we all have laying about.  A good time to acquire them if you haven’t been saving them is at the end of a school year – see if your child’s teacher has old ones they’d be throwing away.  Avoid washable crayons, as they separate when melted.

 

 

Line your muffin tin with paper liners, and about half full with the crayon bits.  You can keep the colors in the same family, or put in a jumble of colors for crazy crayons.  Sorting crayon pieces by color family makes a good early math activity for young ones!  Bake for about 8 minutes; watch them closely because they melt fast.  Take them out of the oven once they are melted and let cool for 30 minutes.  (If you prefer, you can pour them into an inexpensive candy mold and allow them to cool there for interesting shapes.  Don’t worry if it spills over; you can peel it off when it dries.)  Remove the liners and get coloring. If they break put them aside and do it again.