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Crayola Crayons Recycling

DIY Crayons

Learn how to make homemade crayons by recycling your old broken Crayola crayons.
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Prep Time5 minutes
Active Time10 minutes
Total Time15 minutes
Author: Carine

Equipment

  • Silicone Mold
  • Sharp knife
  • Chopping board

Materials

  • 1 batch Broken Crayons

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 200°F (130°C). Place your silicone mold on baking sheets. Set aside.
  • Carefully remove all the paper around your crayons. Recycle paper and sort out the crayons pieces by colors. You don't have to be too accurate. We mixed brown and red, purple with pink, for example. It depends if you want to make single-color crayons or fun multicolors ones.
  • Place the crayons on a chopping board and cut them into tiny pieces with a sharp knife - watch my picture above for visual help.
  • Fill the silicone molds with the crayons pieces until the molds are full up to the top.
  • Bake at 130°F for about 30 minutes or until the crayons pieces are fully melted.
  • Remove the baking sheets from the oven and let the silicone mold on the baking sheets cool down.
  • When the crayons cool down, they solidify into a new batch of crayons.
  • After a few hours, you can push out the new crayons from their mold and use them for a coloring activity.