This year we made crayon hearts - because they are easy, they fun and the kids can actually do them.
First, start with some of the millions of leftover, broken or slightly unsharp (which makes them unusable for my kids) crayons. Put them in a bowl of cold water overnight.
After soaking they should look like this:
And your kids should immediately start to do this:
After which you will have this:
See what I meant about easy? Now comes the hard part. Ask you kids to break up the crayons into smaller pieces and see how quickly they say "oh, we can break things? Awesome". Put the colors of crayons you desire into various silicone molds and cook in the oven at 250 degrees for about 20 minutes. At the end you will have liquidy (very scientific word) stuff in the molds that you can take out of the oven to harden.
Before Christmas we made snowflakes and finished them off with glue and glitter.
Carefully peel them out of the mold when they are completely dry and you get cute little treasures.
And you can finish them off by putting them in a silicone bag with instructions that, I admit, looked better before I stored them outside with my valentine's decorations for a year.
Such a great idea. We did this last year for Valentine's Day, but yours look way better than mine did!
ReplyDeleteGreat to meet you today
Thanks for commenting on my blog. I am super new to blogging and would be grateful for any and all advice you might provide. I haven't found any one source that helps - "how to blog for dummies" so to speak.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much - Shannon Smith Shannonleesmith@cox.net