To Do with Crayons
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Create Colourful Candles
Buy plain white candles (like Shabbat candles). Heat up a bit of wax and some crayon stubs in a tin can. Fill an old pan with cold water. Grab a white candle (use tongs to hold the candle so you don’t get burned!), and dip it first into the hot crayon and wax mixture, then into the cold water. Repeat this process until you’ve got enough colour on your candle. Use this strategy to create pretty holiday decorations. For example, try blending shades of orange for a festive Halloween look.
Fill Furniture Scratches
Do your pets sometimes treat your furniture like a scratching post? Don’t despair. Use a crayon to cover scratches on wooden furniture. Choose the colour most like the wood finish. Soften the crayon with a hair dryer or in a microwave on the defrost setting. Colour the scratches, then buff your repair job with a clean rag to restore the lustre.
Colourful Decoration
Here’s a fun project to do with the kids. Make a multicoloured sun catcher by shaving crayons onto a 10- or 12-centimetre sheet of non-stick baking paper. Use a potato peeler or a grater for this task. Place another sheet of baking paper over the top and press it with a hot iron until the shavings melt together. Poke a hole near the top through the layers of wax and crayon while still warm. Once your ornament cools, peel away the papers and thread a ribbon through the sun catcher and hang it against a windowpane.
Use as a Floor Filler
Crayons make great fill material for small gouges or holes in resilient flooring. Get your crayon box and select a colour that closely matches the floor. Melt the crayon in the microwave over wax paper on medium power, a minute at a time, until you have a pliant glob of colour. Now, with a plastic knife, or a putty knife fill the hole. Smooth it over with a rolling pin, a book or some flat object. You’ll find the crayon cools down quickly. Now wax the floor, to provide a clear protective coating over your new fill.
Make New Crayons
Don’t know what to with crayons stubs? Make old crayons into new. Peel off the wrappers from any old or broken crayons. Sort them by colour or mix everything together. Take a muffin tin and cover the bottom with non-stick baking spray or use foil muffin cups. Fill the tin halfway and place in an oven heated to 93 degrees Celsius (200 Fahrenheit). Take them out of the oven when they have fully melted—usually 10 minutes or so. Let the cool and then pop out them out. You’ll have a brand new, fat crayon perfect for little hands. Add some sparkles to the mix for some extra magic.
Buy plain white candles (like Shabbat candles). Heat up a bit of wax and some crayon stubs in a tin can. Fill an old pan with cold water. Grab a white candle (use tongs to hold the candle so you don’t get burned!), and dip it first into the hot crayon and wax mixture, then into the cold water. Repeat this process until you’ve got enough colour on your candle. Use this strategy to create pretty holiday decorations. For example, try blending shades of orange for a festive Halloween look.
Fill Furniture Scratches
Do your pets sometimes treat your furniture like a scratching post? Don’t despair. Use a crayon to cover scratches on wooden furniture. Choose the colour most like the wood finish. Soften the crayon with a hair dryer or in a microwave on the defrost setting. Colour the scratches, then buff your repair job with a clean rag to restore the lustre.
Colourful Decoration
Here’s a fun project to do with the kids. Make a multicoloured sun catcher by shaving crayons onto a 10- or 12-centimetre sheet of non-stick baking paper. Use a potato peeler or a grater for this task. Place another sheet of baking paper over the top and press it with a hot iron until the shavings melt together. Poke a hole near the top through the layers of wax and crayon while still warm. Once your ornament cools, peel away the papers and thread a ribbon through the sun catcher and hang it against a windowpane.
Use as a Floor Filler
Crayons make great fill material for small gouges or holes in resilient flooring. Get your crayon box and select a colour that closely matches the floor. Melt the crayon in the microwave over wax paper on medium power, a minute at a time, until you have a pliant glob of colour. Now, with a plastic knife, or a putty knife fill the hole. Smooth it over with a rolling pin, a book or some flat object. You’ll find the crayon cools down quickly. Now wax the floor, to provide a clear protective coating over your new fill.
Make New Crayons
Don’t know what to with crayons stubs? Make old crayons into new. Peel off the wrappers from any old or broken crayons. Sort them by colour or mix everything together. Take a muffin tin and cover the bottom with non-stick baking spray or use foil muffin cups. Fill the tin halfway and place in an oven heated to 93 degrees Celsius (200 Fahrenheit). Take them out of the oven when they have fully melted—usually 10 minutes or so. Let the cool and then pop out them out. You’ll have a brand new, fat crayon perfect for little hands. Add some sparkles to the mix for some extra magic.
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Crayon Candles
Instructions to make a candle out of crayons and a milk carton
Materials Needed:
Crayons
Candle Wicks
2 Pint Milk Carton
Ice
Instructions:Candlemaking can be both fun and dangerous. You should never try any projects that use heat and fire without an adults help, and always follow candle safety rules.
Cut off the top of the milk carton so that you have a "box" with one end open. Next, Melt crayons over medium heat (there are plastic bags available that you can place the wax or crayons in so that you then just place that bag into boiling water to melt). The crayons can be broken and different colors, but the washable type do NOT work well. You can use the wax for candle crafts found at the discount stores and add just a few crayons of the desired color to tint it. Place wick into the milk carton and fill carton will ice. Be sure that the wick is fairly centered and running the entire length of the carton. Now, pour melted wax/crayon mixture into the carton filling to the top. Let sit until hardened and ice has melted, then carefully cut and peel away the carton from the candle.
You will now have a beautiful candle. The ice in the carton caused the wax to quickly harden around the cubes. The result is a "swiss cheese" looking candle. Each one looks a little different! These must be handled carefully after finished as the swiss cheese nature of the candle make it fragile.
Crayons
Candle Wicks
2 Pint Milk Carton
Ice
Instructions:Candlemaking can be both fun and dangerous. You should never try any projects that use heat and fire without an adults help, and always follow candle safety rules.
Cut off the top of the milk carton so that you have a "box" with one end open. Next, Melt crayons over medium heat (there are plastic bags available that you can place the wax or crayons in so that you then just place that bag into boiling water to melt). The crayons can be broken and different colors, but the washable type do NOT work well. You can use the wax for candle crafts found at the discount stores and add just a few crayons of the desired color to tint it. Place wick into the milk carton and fill carton will ice. Be sure that the wick is fairly centered and running the entire length of the carton. Now, pour melted wax/crayon mixture into the carton filling to the top. Let sit until hardened and ice has melted, then carefully cut and peel away the carton from the candle.
You will now have a beautiful candle. The ice in the carton caused the wax to quickly harden around the cubes. The result is a "swiss cheese" looking candle. Each one looks a little different! These must be handled carefully after finished as the swiss cheese nature of the candle make it fragile.
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