Have you ever seen something, on Pintrest say, and you think "what a simple great idea!" Me too. Except things don't always work out the way that they do on the Internet.
For example, remelting crayons. I mean, how hard can it be? You just remelt the crayons, right?
Wrong!
Let me walk you through my awesome craft job.
Step one: Get broken crayons
Simple enough. Can't really screw up this step. I took all of Hunter's broken crayons and sorted them by like colours into a muffin tray. I put the muffin liners in so that I could remove them from the tray easier..or so I thought.
To be fair, most of the examples I looked up on the internet used those silicone trays, but I don't have one of those so I used what I had. Looking back now, I can see my plan was doomed from the start.
Step Two: Melt Crayons
Turn of the oven to 350 and let it warm up a little bit.I placed the tray in the middle of the oven and waited for the crayons to start to melt.
Of course, I was also doing other things around the house and I may have left them in for a bit longer than they needed. I wanted to still be able to see the different colours, but instead they all kinda melted together to make an ugly blob-o-colour. All in all, they were in the oven for about 10 minutes
Yup, this is going perfect so far.
Step Three: Cool and Remove.
So after I took them out of the oven, I thought it best to put the tray in the freezer for a few minutes to get them to set up. Good idea in theory, but it didn't really work out too well. Or maybe it would have worked, if I left them in a bit longer?
After about 8 minutes in the freezer, I pulled them out so I could get them out while they were still a bit malleable. I took a butter knife and ran it along the edge of the cups. This made the crayon cups crack up. I tried pulling one out and it did come out better than the ones I used the knife on.
After removing the paper from the crayons, they actually didn't look too bad. Not like I had wanted them to look, but not bad. The only thing that I'm not really crazy about is the edging from the cupcake paper. I can see those making a mess the first few times they are used. Might rub them down before I give them to Hunter to use.
I would give this craft a 6 out of 10. Wasn't too hard, but I would do things a bit differently if I was to do it again.
Thanks for reading :)
