Homemade Crayons

I've been wanting to try this out for a while and I finally got around to doing it.  We made our own crayons! 

I started by gathering up all of our crayon stubs and removing the paper.  I sorted them by colors and broke them up a bit.

As you can see, the shades of the crayons vary a little even if they are the same color.

Next, I pulled out an ice cube tray that I got at Ikea years ago.  It is one of those rubber ones as seen on their website here.  Mine are puzzle shaped and sadly I've never found occasion to use it until now. 

I let the kids fill the puzzle pieces with whatever colors they wanted.  I even made a few of my own.  Then we popped them in the oven at 250 degrees.  The directions I had said to melt for 25 minutes. I took them out after 15 minutes (and 10 minutes would have been more than enough).

They make for a really fun way to color  - especially making rubbings!  We will definitely be making more of these fun crayons.


(You can also use a cupcake pan lined with foil for making these.)