{"id":606,"date":"2009-05-26T18:59:59","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T01:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=606"},"modified":"2009-11-27T15:35:16","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T22:35:16","slug":"re-purpose-old-broken-crayons-into-%e2%80%a6-new-crayons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=606","title":{"rendered":"Re-Purpose Old Broken Crayons into \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 New Crayons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\">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. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>A good time to acquire them if you haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been saving them is at the end of a school year \u00e2\u20ac\u201c see if your child\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s teacher has old ones they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be throwing away. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>Avoid washable crayons, as they separate when melted. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/02126.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-607\" title=\"021[26]\" src=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/02126.jpg\" alt=\"021[26]\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/02126.jpg 640w, https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/02126-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/02126-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\">Line your muffin tin with paper liners, and about half full with the crayon bits. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>You can keep the colors in the same family, or put in a jumble of colors for crazy crayons. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>Sorting crayon pieces by color family makes a good early math activity for young ones!<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Bake for about 8 minutes; watch them closely because they melt fast. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>Take them out of the oven once they are melted and let cool for 30 minutes. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>(If you prefer, you can pour them into an inexpensive candy mold and allow them to cool there for interesting shapes.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t worry if it spills over; you can peel it off when it dries.)<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Remove the liners and get coloring. If they break put them aside and do it again.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 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. \u00c2\u00a0A good time to acquire them if you haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been saving them is at the end of a school year \u00e2\u20ac\u201c see if your child\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s teacher has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,33,39,8],"tags":[123,201],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":611,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions\/611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}