How to Recycle Old Crayons

Instead of throwing away all of those broken crayons and tiny pieces, just recycle them into brand new ones!!!

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• all those crayons you thought were wasted
• muffin tins or aluminum cups for baking

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees

2. Gather all of the broken crayons that are in the box, or even those that are just not "pointy and new" anymore

3. Grab the kids and remove ALL of the wrapping from the crayon. This is important because you will be baking them and you need to remove ALL of the paper

4. Seperate the colors into alike colors, reds, oranges, greens, and so on
   Or combine some colors for a rainbow effect

5. Place unwrapped crayons into baking cups.(I found some aluminum foil cups by reynolds that are in different shapes, like stars and hearts)

6. Place into oven and bake about 5 minutes. If they are not completely melted bake another 5 minutes, and so on, making sure to watch them carefully.

7. When melted all the way, remove from oven and cool COMPLETELY!!
   You will have new crayons to color with and no more little broken pieces. Enjoy!

Tips & Warnings

• Make sure the crayons are completely cooled down before removing from containers
• Wax will be HOT!!!
• USE ADULT SUPERVISION BECAUSE OF OVEN USE AND HOT WAX

[grapegumdrop]

on 7/31/2009 Very Good Tips!

[jseven]

on 5/17/2009 Great idea! Thanks... :)