Rainbow Crayons

If your house is anything like mine, you have broken crayons everywhere, sometimes in the weirdest places.  I have a two year old who loves to color but also loves to leave her crayons all over the floor to be stepped on.  To me, once a crayon is broken, it doesn't work as good and it gets thrown in a sandwich bag to sit until I finally get tired of looking at it and throw them away.  Well throw away no more, this is a genius idea I should have thought of years ago.  Then again I didn't have broken crayons all over my house years ago.  To do this is very simple, all you need to do is......

1.) Gather some broken crayons (if you don't have any but still want to make these awesome crayons you can always get a box for $1, sometimes cheaper, and break them into pieces)  Next is the fun part, taking off all the paper on each crayon and getting underneath your nails all messy.

2.) Have your oven preheating around 250 degrees,  

3.) Get some kind of mold that is oven safe.  I love the silicon ones that have the neat shapes and they are also really easy to remove the crayon piece when the project is done.  If you don't have anything fancy, just use regular cupcake tins.  Don't be concerned about making a mess out of your pans (I know I was the first time I did it) once the crayon is dry, it pops out very easily.

4.) Place the broken crayons in the mold.  You can choose whatever colors you want to go together from one color to as many colors as you want.

5.) Place the molds with the crayons in the oven for roughly 8-10 minutes.  This is just a estimate, keep a eye out for the crayons to melt, once they are melted, take them out.  Be sure not to overcook them or else they will start to boil and leave small bubbles when they dry.

6.) Let them cool completely, pop them right out, and let the fun begin!