How to Make Homemade Crayons Story

How to Make Homemade Crayons

It didn’t feel right to just toss all of the broken crayons in the trash. I felt like we should use them in some way.

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I gathered together a few different things around the house:

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Next, we started peeling…

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It took some time, but working as a team seemed to be the best approach.

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If you wanted to throw in a teaching lesson for your little ones, you could always use the crayons to learn colors, counting, addition and subtraction!

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Next, we sprayed the silicone trays with the coconut oil spray (Is that what you use? Or is there a better idea out there?).

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Then, we began breaking the larger pieces of crayon into sizes that would fit into our molds.

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…then into the oven they went!

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SWIPE UP TO LEARN MORE!

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