For Christmas, miss A asked for a crayon maker. I thought it sounded cool. I looked up the crayola crayon makers and they cost around 50$. Are you kidding me? 50 bucks to melt crayons? But then, what do you do with the nubs of the crayon other than find them in noses, crevises, couch cushions, or squished on the wall, under foot, or in the laundry?
So we created our own crayon maker - AKA the oven and some IKEA ice cube makers.
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| dead crayon nubs. |
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| IKEA ice cube trays - they say right on them, "For Water Use Only". yeah right. |
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| 170 degrees for 30 minutes = heart shaped crayons. |
And my girls think it is super. They think drawing with them is really special. Miss A has all but forgotten the expensive crayon maker because this worked so well. So thanks to IKEA for making silicon ice cube trays for cheap, we are out of the crayon nubs. They've been replaced by heart shaped coloring joy. ahh.
And my girls think it is super. They think drawing with them is really special. Miss A has all but forgotten the expensive crayon maker because this worked so well. So thanks to IKEA for making silicon ice cube trays for cheap, we are out of the crayon nubs. They've been replaced by heart shaped coloring joy. ahh.
2 comments:
I am a big fan of throwing crayon nubs away. I relish it. Maybe for a few days I'll save them up instead of chuck them and give this a try. But it seems like maybe if I did I'd just relish throwing out the cutesy shaped nubs a few days later.
But I'm happy its working for you.
I throw them away, too! They don't even have to be paperless nubs. Any broken crayon is fair game for the trash can. Your girls are lucky to have you!
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