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How to make multicolored holiday crayons

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By kprest74
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Parents are always looking for an inexpensive, creative project for the classroom or home, or to contribute to the school holiday party. Here is a dirt cheap, superfun idea that the kids and teachers will love.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

A bunch of old crayons.
A holiday themed cupcake pan (with holiday shapes, ie. heart shaped cupcake pan for Valentines day)

Step 1

Have kids peel any paper off the crayons and break up into chunks. (Don't they always want to do that anyway??)
Step 2

Mix the different colored chunks together to distribute colors.
Fill up cupcake pans with crayon chunks.
Step 3

Bake at 250 degrees for ten minutes, or until crayon has melted together.
Step 4

Remove from oven and let cool completely. After cooled, remove shapes from pan.
Step 5

Smooth edges by rubbing along paper.
DONE!
Put in ziplock bags, tie with a ribbon and distribute to the whole class!
The kids now have their very own, homemade, multicolored crayon to experiment with!

Tips & Warnings

Kids will have a blast preparing the crayons with you, but please do not involve them in the baking process, as the pans and melted wax will be extremely hot.