Rainbow Crayon Melts

Another simple but fun craft I like to do at the end of the School year is Rainbow Crayon Melts. It is a very simple and very resourceful way to  recycle all of those broken crayon pieces that are brought home at the end of the School year.

Materials:

• Broken Crayon Pieces
• Muffin Pan
• Cupcake Liners
• Sandwich Bags for sorting (if preferred)

1. This is the most tedious part of the project, luckily the kids like helping with this. All of the crayons that are going to be used must have their wrappers peeled off and discarded.
2. I prefer to sort my crayons by color and place them into sandwich bags as we remove the wrappers. This time I did: Orange/Yellow, Red/Pink, Purple/ Brown & Blue/Green..we had a lot of blues and greens for some reason so it made two.
3. Break the crayons into small pieces.
4. Line your puffin pan with paper liners, this is very important as cleaning crayon wax from a muffin pan is NO fun. And your next batch of cupcakes are not very tasty.
5. Carefully dump your crayon pieces into your cupcake liners. They will melt down but do not fill them too full.
6. Preheat your oven to 300 degrees and place your muffin pan inside for approximately 20-30 minutes checking after 15 minutes. It is done when you no longer see any hard lumps and all colors are swirled together.  
7. Let cool for about 20 minutes before removing from pan. Make sure they are completely cooled before removing paper liners and allowing your children to color with them.

8. They will produce a nice rainbow effect when drawn with.