Amazing! We took crayons and made them into crayons.

For morning craft, I decided we’d melt our broken crayons into new shapes.

Ivan was dedicated to removing the paper from the crayons. It was time-consuming and soon bored his sister, but Ivan happily used his nails to remove the paper and every time I asked if he wanted another crayon to peel he said, “yeah!” Ivan’s “yeah” has developed into a two syllable word in recent weeks, so an enthusiastic “ye-ah!” He spent half an hour completely engrossed in crayon peeling.

Ezri enjoyed color sorting and finding the broken crayons in our crayon tin. I was in charge of crushing crayons and filling molds. The penguin mold I thought was silicone turned out to be another kind of rubber and went melty in the oven. So, we got no penguin shaped crayons. But, we made a muffin shaped large circle, long sticks and Han-Solo-encased-in-carbonite crayons.

Drawing with our newly reformed crayons