Tie Dyed Crayons

I created this blog months ago and sat here pondering what to blog about. The name says it all. I want to share about my great kids and the fantastic times we have daily. I want to share cooking fun and cooking disasters that I know we all have. I love to craft and make things even though sometimes they are less than perfect. The less than perfect part is something we can all relate to. We bake with our kids, craft, cook, create and everything a mommy makes is perfect in the eyes of a child.

My oldest is home sick so I thought what a great day to do something low key. My friend S.G. shared a blog she found for making chunky crayons. I then called my mom because she used to make them for her day care. My mom always called them tie dyed crayons. It was one of my favorite things to do with my mom so this is such a gift to do now with my kids. There are many different blogs out there that have different directions, different ideas, times and here is how we did it.

Chunky Tie Dyed Crayons

Need:
broken and peeled crayons
molds to put the pieces in

Preheat your oven to 300. You can go higher or lower but I found 300 to work best regardless of the size tie dyed crayons you are making.

Peel and break the crayons, this was our work in progress pile.

place them in molds.

place only 2 at a time in the oven. 300 for 6 minutes. Beware, it does smell!!!

Prep other pans while waiting.

All melted and setting.

If using silicone molds, just wait 15 - 20 minutes, peel back and they just pop out!

My mini muffin pan is non stick and they just fell out after cooling for 15 minutes.

We let them cool for an hour before using them. The kids had a blast with them. Clean-up is relatively easy. Either freeze the pans and pop off any stuck on crayon and wash or place in super hot water and wipe off any excess crayon. I then washed them and presto, no crayon.