Apr 29 2008
Rainbow Crayons
Do you have tons of crayons all over the floor? Do you feel like buying crayons is a waste of money because your little sweethearts love to break them and lose them. I have this trouble. With 5 children, I should probably buy stock in Crayola. The only way I have found to salvage the little buggers is to take all the very tiny pieces, the parts my two year old would probably try to swallow, and melt them down in the oven. If you place an oven on 200 F for about 5 to 10 minutes until the crayons look liquid on top in mini muffin tins, it makes a nice rainbow crayon. My kids love coloring with these just as much as a regular one color crayon. In fact they consider it a treat. But let them cool for about 6 hours before you let any children play with them. Due to the nature of crayons they stay hot a long time and the melted wax would really hurt little fingers. Always test the new rainbow crayons first.
