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Monday, March 4, 2019

Rainbow Crayons

Recycle leftover crayon parts by making them into cool rainbow crayons!



What you need:
- leftover crayons (peeled)
- oven (200 degrees)
- oven-proof mold (ours is from IKEA)
- a copy of The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers

How it works:
We love The Day the Crayons Quit, the illustrations are so fun! The one that always catches my daughter's eye is the rainbow crayon right at the end. I thought it might be really fun to recycle some of our leftover crayon parts to make some cool rainbow crayons just like the one in the book!

We picked out all of the broken crayons from our crayon box. It was baby sister's job to arrange the crayon parts in the mold in a fun rainbow pattern.



Once the mold was full, we put it in the oven at 200 degrees for about 20 minutes and then took it out and let it cool. Once I was sure the wax had set I popped the crayons out of the mold.



The color combination on each crayon was so different, they looked really cool! I set up baby sis with the crayons, some paper and the fun page from the book. She really enjoyed seeing all of the different colors. We definitely made our crayons too thin, as they were a bit too delicate! Next time I would fill each mold up to the top.



A fun hands-on way to learn about melting and setting, as well as working on fine motor skills and color recognition. And let's not forget the literacy link by teaming up the activity with a book.

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