I have always had this thing for trying to making something out of nothing, or something new from something old or broken. I was thrilled to pass this idea down to my child. Last week while digging for colors in the big crayon tin we noticed lots of small broken pieces. Gi actually pointed out how many broken ones there were. I felt it a great opportunity to show her this little trick. I said "hey we can change them. We can make one big colorful crayon from all these small pieces. Then you'll have one crayon with lots of colors in it."
She was excited to see how we were going to do this. "It's sooo easy!" I said. So, we took all the scraps put them into a metal mold, melted them in the toaster oven, let them cool down to room temp then into the freezer for a few minutes then pop them out!"
I got a great "WOW" response that was very pleasing! It was so pretty too that we decided to make another to use as a decorative element on a friends birthday present! I can expect we will be doing this with all of our broken crayon bits for years to come!
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