DIY: Multi-Colored Crayon Discs
 
 
Learn how to make multi-colored crayon discs at home by melting your old and broken crayons in muffin-pans. A fun activity to do with your kids at home!
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Ingredients
  • Old crayons
  • muffin pan
  • muffin liners
Directions
  1. Take your old crayons and remove any paper covering them. If its hard to pull off the color wrappers, just dip them in a bowl of warm water and leave it for 2-3 minutes. The paper wrappers will fall off themselves.
  2. Now take a sharp knife and chop each crayon into tiny bits, about ½ cm each piece. Repeat for all the crayons
  3. Line a muffin pan with muffin liners. Layer the chopped bits of crayons into each muffin shell, filling them up half way. Use whatever color combination you like. Just place them together so they don't overlap too much.
  4. Now preheat your oven to 250 degrees F, and place the muffin pan in the oven. Let the colors bake for about 4-5 minutes, just until the top-most layer of the crayon seems to be melting.
  5. Refer to the picture above - you don't want them to melt too much and turn into a runny liquid, otherwise the colors will get mixed. You want them to be melted enough so the solid structure breaks, but the color layers are still separate, creating a multi-colored effect.
  6. Once done, remove from the oven and leave them untouched for 5 minutes, then pop the entire muffin tray into the refrigerator for about 10-12 minutes. Or you could even freeze it so they harden faster.
  7. That's it, once they are back to their solid form, remove the color discs from the liners and they are ready to be used.
Notes
Melting-Crayons3Bake the colors only until the top layer is mostly melted and smooth. It can take anywhere from 10-15 minutes at about 250 so just keep an eye on it. Baking time depends on how full they are, the brand of crayons, and more. Try to mix and match colors so they look appealing when the layers merge. You can even use silicone molds instead of muffin pans, but make sure to place your silicone molds on top of a foil lined cookie sheet when you put them in the oven, so the silicone itself does not melt.
Recipe by Fun and Food Cafe at https://www.funandfoodcafe.com/melting-crayons/