All week I've been seeing darling Valentine's crafts all over the internet, and I've mocked them to myself, because it was that or feel guilty about not doing anything with the Princess beyond the requisite class cards. Then, this morning, Cupid hit me with an arrow right in the middle of my jaded black heart. There's no other explanation.
It started when the Princess was playing with a set of paper dolls that some eejit (that would be me) bought her for Christmas. It came with all sorts of supplies for designing your own paper doll clothes, including a set of textured pieces of cardboard. It was these that the Princess came running over with, forcing me to abandon my coffee to peel a crayon, and show her how to do a rubbing over the textures. As she struggled to roll the crayon without crumpling or moving the paper, I decided that a better tool was needed. And that's when my heart gagged and bound my brain.
I got out our enormous box of crayons and while the Princess fished out all the broken specimens, I peeled them. Breaking all my fingernails in the process, I might add. We sorted them by colour into a heart-shaped silicone muffin tin, preheated the oven to 375 F, and picked 3 268 crayon fragments up off the floor. Twice. Thanks Bad.
I boiled the kettle, and made those crayons their very own little bain-marie.
We turned on the oven light to make it easier to peep, and after catching Bad opening the oven for the second time, I took up a guard post in the kitchen. About 20 minutes later we had this:
Pretty!
By the time lunch was finished they were hard again.
I'm such a sucker. But at least they'll be easier to clean up this way.
It started when the Princess was playing with a set of paper dolls that some eejit (that would be me) bought her for Christmas. It came with all sorts of supplies for designing your own paper doll clothes, including a set of textured pieces of cardboard. It was these that the Princess came running over with, forcing me to abandon my coffee to peel a crayon, and show her how to do a rubbing over the textures. As she struggled to roll the crayon without crumpling or moving the paper, I decided that a better tool was needed. And that's when my heart gagged and bound my brain.
I got out our enormous box of crayons and while the Princess fished out all the broken specimens, I peeled them. Breaking all my fingernails in the process, I might add. We sorted them by colour into a heart-shaped silicone muffin tin, preheated the oven to 375 F, and picked 3 268 crayon fragments up off the floor. Twice. Thanks Bad.
I boiled the kettle, and made those crayons their very own little bain-marie.
We turned on the oven light to make it easier to peep, and after catching Bad opening the oven for the second time, I took up a guard post in the kitchen. About 20 minutes later we had this:
Pretty!
By the time lunch was finished they were hard again.
I'm such a sucker. But at least they'll be easier to clean up this way.
Oh! And yeah, they work great for the rubbings!
13 comments:
Those are adorable! What a great way to use up broken bits of crayons!
I am SOOO not letting my daughter see this post....
Holy Crap! What a great idea! I think that is an awesome project for a gift from one kid to another!Costs nothing to make, and the kids really feel like they have done something for a freind. I have bought birthday gifts for my daughters friends in years gone by, and she always said 'but it's from you mom, not me'. I think this will solve the problem now with my granddaughter having the same feelings.
Wow! Perhaps I'll ship our crayons up to you.
So, I tried this, and it turned out pretty cool! I don't have any shapes, so just used dollar store muffin pans. I posted results on my blog.
Hey thats really neat!
You're so clever, I have thrown away all old crayons recently but as soon as we have a new batch I will try it out. Ours usually get to the point of being mere stubs so this would be very useful!
That is a really neat idea! Too bad you didn't post it before I purged the art bin last week and threw out the old crayons.
That could be a good rainy Sunday project around our house.
And I saw those muffin tins at the dollar store! I think I'll head over there on the way home.
Great idea! You could make smaller ones in those fancy Ikea ice trays.
What an absolutely fantastic idea.
I might have to try that.
I have tried this and only get dark purple and mushy black colored crayons!! Yours turned out awesome.
Wow, what an amazing idea!!!! We have so many crayon bits, this would be perfect.
Smart lady :)
These are really cute! My daughter's teacher sent some home as Valentines this year, and I am thinking of digging the crayon bits out of the craft drawer and making our own. Thanks for the inspiration!
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