Crayon Recycling
Last night I stayed up way too late trying to get to all of my readers blogs. I read every post, email and try to get to each blog, but it is getting harder. I did delete an email by a reader asking a question about what to get someone? I can’t find it for the life of me so if sent me something and I did not reply….try again (woops and sorry).
Lots of going green blogs out there! Go moms! My Greening: Going Green, wrote about recycling crayons to make candles. How clever. As a long time preschool teacher the recycling of crayons and markers has become common practice for me. Here is what I do:
~Grab an old muffin tin and preheat my oven to 150 degrees.
~I have my little guy peel all the old broken crayons and I cut them up.
~We randomly put them into the muffin tins because we like the rainbow colors.
Lots of going green blogs out there! Go moms! My Greening: Going Green, wrote about recycling crayons to make candles. How clever. As a long time preschool teacher the recycling of crayons and markers has become common practice for me. Here is what I do:
~Grab an old muffin tin and preheat my oven to 150 degrees.
~I have my little guy peel all the old broken crayons and I cut them up.
~We randomly put them into the muffin tins because we like the rainbow colors.
~Bake for 15 or so minutes (you’ll see that they all melt together).
~Let the crayons and muffin tin cool and then pop out your new crayons. You can keep doing this over and over! No need to throw crayons in the garbage, ever! Great for chubby hands and fingers!
When the markers all dry up we use them for painting. The kids stick the markers in water cups and they’re suddenly water color paint brushes. It’s fun and a great way to make the most of those markers.
So thanks, My Greening: Going Green, for this crayon recycling reminder. A great Earth Day project to do with the kids!
~Let the crayons and muffin tin cool and then pop out your new crayons. You can keep doing this over and over! No need to throw crayons in the garbage, ever! Great for chubby hands and fingers!
When the markers all dry up we use them for painting. The kids stick the markers in water cups and they’re suddenly water color paint brushes. It’s fun and a great way to make the most of those markers.
So thanks, My Greening: Going Green, for this crayon recycling reminder. A great Earth Day project to do with the kids!
posted by Green & Clean Mom at
8:49 AM
2 Comments:
We got some of the melted crayons in our Valentine's box this year -- shaped like hearts even. Totally loved it (I'm not a big candy fan). I didn't know the trick with the markers, but we're totally doing this as someone in the house who shall remain nameless but is 2 years old tends to not snap the tops back on all the way and daddies don't always pay attention to this, so we've been throwing away a bunch of pretty much brand new markers lately. Way cool!
Hey, thanks for the Green Mom shout-out. I am a teacher as well so I think I have a special section in my mind that helps me look at old junk and see the craft possibilities.
Soon I will share how I took a headless stuffed toy and an unmatched sock and turned it into a puppet. :)
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