Greta and I recently raided my crayon stash for all the small nubs that are just too difficult to use for big and small hands alike. These turned out so well – my next move is to raid the crayons in my classroom and make new crayons for my students to use. No sense in throwing out useful crayons when re-purposed crayons are this easily attained.
I started with a fairly large bag of crayon nubs. Make sure they are peeled and cut down to small chunks, especially if you are working with a funky mold. I used a silicone mold that was originally intended to be used for ice cubes or candies.
I grouped my crayons by warm, cool, and neutral colors. Greta was especially helpful with the sorting – we had great conversations about the colors and where they belonged. I used everyday craft scissors to cut some of the longer crayons down.
My last step was to create a simple Valentine for Greta to use at school. I’ve been taking a class in the evenings on Adobe Illustrator – this was something I whipped up in the few minutes before class started last week. I figured I would attach the crayons to the Valentine in a little bag. If you want the PDF, check it out my Google Docs here. The document is called valentine.PDF.
Cute! Those look like fun to color with. Maybe I'll have to be less careful not to break my crayons. 😉
Thanks, Brianne!