No need to shed any more tears over broken crayons at the bottom of the bin! We've collected a few favorite craft projects to make with those broken crayon pieces that your kid will love to help you with. They're just as beautiful (if not more) than a brand new boxed set.
1. Rainbow Toddler Crayons on Momtastic: Older kids can help melt and layer these colors for younger kids. These chunky toddler crayons are great for a toddler to learn correct writing grip. Plus, inching and poking is great exercise for their fine motor skills.
2. Crayon Valentines on The Long Thread: Melt crayons in heart shaped molds for a creative Valentine card and gift. Kids will love helping pick out the color combinations and decorating the card afterwards.
3. Melted Crayon Art on 52 Kitchen Adventures: A beautiful piece of artwork created from melting pieces of crayons with a blow dryer. Kids will love watching the wax melt, drip and harden onto the canvas.
(Images: 1. Say Yes to Hoboken for Momtastic 2. The Long Thread 3. 52 Kitchen Adventures)
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I saw that melted crayon art (3rd picture), on Pinterest and was just dying to try it- but I decided to put my own twist on it...and it turned out perfectly for the space that I had in mind. Check it out and the tutorial here:
http://cleansmartsimple.blogspot.com/2012/01/melted-crayon-art.html
Did you know drawing with broken crayons is a great way to help develop your child's fine motor skills? The smaller the utensil the more control you need. So do the fun projects mentioned above but keep using your broken crayons too!
Love the idea of the toddler crayons. I'd been thinking of trying something similar with toilet paper tubes, but I bed the medicine containers work better.
I made a different kind of melted crayon art using just dots of melted wax. You can see it here (http://helpinglittlehands.blogspot.com/2012/01/tutorial-melted-crayon-letter-art-love.html)
I tried a version of this using all the similar colours together:
http://growingpeople.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/chunk-crayon-recycling/?ref=nf