Putting crappy crayon pieces to good use

Thanks to this lady and her recommendation of this awesome post, I tried a fun CRAFT project with my kids tonight. The website says kids love to sit down and peel all of the old paper off of the crayons, and I have to admit...I thought they were full of it. My kids have the attention span of a knat and difficult paper unpeeling? Yeah right. But loudoun unpeeled EVERY.SINGLE.PAPER until he was done with EVERY.SINGLE.CRAYON because he was so excited to complete the project. So, after all of the paper was removed, we broke the crayons into the smallest pieces we could. I helped the project along by cutting the big chunks into smaller chunks.

Then the kids shared the plate of crayons tidbits and filled their own cupcake tins.

This of course was the FAVORITE part of the project, for obvious reasons.

Next the tins went into the oven at 275 degrees for 7-9 minutes. The kids were anxiously waiting near the oven for the time to pass as quickly as possible.

Once the timer went off and I pulled them out of the oven, we let them cool a few minutes and then took a toothpick to swirl each creation. After another 1/2 hour of cooling, we popped them out and VOILA!

You should try it...super fun and quick and easy. And hey....our crayon box got cleaned out. No more duds.