I love making fun things with the kids at Christmas... cut out Christmas cookies the kitchen covered in flour and the house smelling of sweetness....glittered adorned cards sent out to those we love....and lots and lots of popsicle sticks, foam stickers, pipe-cleaners and painted hand-prints crafted into ornaments, reindeer, and any other celebratory symbol of the holidays. This year as we were cleaning out the craft closet (yes we have an entire closet full of craft supplies...that's another post) and noticing our abundance of crayons we decided to reinvent the Christmas craft.
We decided to take some old and broken things and make them new again. Crayons. I cannot tell you how many crayons this family with 4 children and 2 former preschool teacher parents have accumulated!
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| We sorted out all our broken crayons from the ones that still had good life left and then sorted again by color and broke any larger pieces into smaller ones. |
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| They weren't always the same shade but as long as they were in he same color family it was fine. |
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| We preheated the oven to 350, then we got a silicone baking tray, ours were in the shape of snowflakes, and places all the broken pieces in a section. After the oven was preheated we placed the silicone baking tray onto a metal sheet and popped them in the oven. Turn the oven down to 250 for about 10 minutes or until the crayons started to look a little soupy. Then we took them out. I stirred each section with a plastic knife to even out the color in each section. After they cooled a bit I stuck them in the freezer for another 30 minutes to harden. |
After that we peeled them out of our snowflake mold and Ta-Da!! Snowflake Christmas crayons Super easy and so cute. Package these up with a cute bow and new coloring book and these would make cute stocking stuffer! What's some of your favorite Christmas/Holiday crafts to do with your kids?
