Crayon Meltdown

Ethylwolfe's last day of Kindergarten was last Wednesday.  It was a sad and joyful day.  Sad that my little guy has already finished his first year of school.  But glad to have him all to myself for 6 weeks.  Happy that he learned so much and happy that he has a love for school!

I wanted his classmates to have a nice parting gift because I've come to know them so well and we had such a great year together.  Monday, we threw a pizza party and then Wednesday, Ethylwolfe brought in these awesome gifts.

These are simple and fun to make.

If you would like to make them with your kids, here's how:

Items needed:

Old pieces of broken crayons

Oven safe mold (like a cupcake pan)

**Be warned, after using your molds for this, you can't use them for cooking again**

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 250
• Remove paper from all pieces of crayons
• Break crayons into 1in pieces
• Fill molds with crayons {You can do coordinating colors or random, whatever the kids want.}
• Melt crayons in the oven, approximately 15 minutes depending on number of pieces in each mold.
• Remove mold from Oven and place on a cooling rack.
• Once wax has started to solidify, place in the fridge for 30 min and voila! you have colorful crayon rubs!

We cut up squares from cereal boxes, wrote "have a great summer" and Ethylwolfe handed them out on his own.  The kids LOVED their gifts, and we made extras to have at home.  We used cheap-O crayons and they worked fine.  I hear crayola works better, so maybe we'll try them next time to compare {there will definitely be a next time}.  My kids LOVE using them and they are very proud that they made them themselves.  They are awesome for rubs of plants and large coloring projects.  Have fun!