I decided to get a little creative this year and make heart-shaped crayons for Valentine’s Day. Since I stink at crafting, I was pretty proud of myself for putting my own spin on a project that I found online. (Yay for internet!)
Home-made Heart-Shaped Crayons:
- Peel the paper from your crayons. (The easiest way to do this is to soak them in warm water.)
- Break the crayons and put them in a heart-shaped cupcake pan (Wilton makes a silicon pan).
- Bake in a preheated 250 degree oven for 5-10 minutes until melted.
- Cool for 20 minutes (or pop in frig/freezer) and remove from the pan.
I packaged a crayon, turquoise/pink heart paper, a Cars 2 Valentine, and the crayon recipe in a clear plastic bag.
I chose to sort the crayons by color before baking because I’m anal and I’m not a big fan of the home-made crayons that have all different colors mixed in. Having different shades of the same or similar colors gave our crayons a really cool look – kind of like tie dye. You can see what I mean when looking at the crayons in the picture on the left/second one down.
After the crayons were made, I sorted them into piles by whether they seemed to be “girl” colors or “boy” colors….or, in reality, by how well they matched/coordinated with my turquoise and pink craft paper. LOL The pink craft paper packages were stuffed with the Valentine’s we addressed to the girls in Ian’s class. The turquoise craft paper packages were stuffed with the Valentine’s for the boys.
This was a really good way to use up old broken crayons that we had in our crayon box. I can actually see us doing this again in the future just to use up all the crayon scraps we always seem to have around.