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I have posted this project before, but I wanted to share it once again. It’s a fun, easy craft that you can help your kids with!
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great idea. i may do that with my girl today!
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Those turned out great!! He is so cute!!
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It was super easy, have fun doing it!
Thanks!
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Cool idea I bet it was fun to use the giant circle crayons.
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How grand is that!! Thanks!
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I just stumbled on your site so I’m a new reader. I love that crayon idea. I’ll have to try that with the kids this week considering we just bought all new crayons and markers.
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Awesome instructions!
I just linked to you from my blog because I think my readers can definelty benefit from this!
http://momspark.blogspot.com/2008/08/recycled-crayons.html
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Whoops, here is the correct link!
http://mamasmoneysavers.com/2009/01/mom-spark-recycle-your-broken-crayons.html
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Great, thank you Cher!
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I love your site. Recycled crayons are a great idea for bday party goody bags or class gifts. We just made them for my daughter’s class for a holiday gift (just make sure to label them “crayons”). I make them by melting them in a jar in the microwave, then pour them into candy molds. This way you can make different shapes, like stars.
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Kat-Great idea!! Thank you for that!
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I’m going to have to try that for my art students! We have tons of broken ones to use! Cool idea!
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We love this project, and took it one step further here
http://www.notimeforflashcards.com/2008/12/best-of-2008-count-down-2.html
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Allie-Wonderful idea!
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What a great idea! Thanks so much for sharing!
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Wanted to let you in on a great thing I found to do with those crayons. There is a group that makes crayons and sells them to raise money for cancer research. You can check it out.
http://www.crayonsforcancer.org/
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What a great cause! Thank you for sharing that link, I think this will be an excellent project for the summer school break.
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What a great idea!! My 18 month old has just started to color and breaks a lot of crayons. I will definitely be doing this. They look easy for my little one to hold onto too. Thanks!
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Really cool idea. I’ll have to share this w/ my sis in laws who are teachers.
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love that and everyone has broken crayons right?
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That's a great idea!!! My baby is only 2 and he looooves to color, we don't have broken crayons yet, but we will, I'm sure! I will definitely do this project. Thanks! Yvette
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What a super idea….stopped over from the Tweetgrid n now back to the action (ebmommy)
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momspark Reply:
August 5th, 2009 at 2:23 am
Thanks for stopping by!
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I wonder why on earth I have never thought of that! We have so many broken crayons, this would go a long way to making new ones our of our old ones! Thanks for the idea!
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Amy Bellgardt Reply:
November 10th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
No problem! It’s so much fun, too!
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I love the idea of swirling them together when they’re melted. We made these this week and didn’t swirl them so they look more rainbowy (not a real word I know). You can have a look here http://www.frugalfamily.co.uk/2010/03/colorfoul-crayons.html.
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My kids and I love this project. The biggest problem we have, though, is now the kids love to break the good, fresh crayons!!
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That is an awesome idea. We have tons of broken crayons.
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