Crayon Melts

If you are anything like us you will have lots of odds and ends of crayons. I have no idea what happens to them, but we always seem to have a bit of this and a bit of that floating around. I had seen a few posts around on melting down crayons to make crayon 'blocks' and finally found some time to have a go. Here is what I did:

I started by taking any existing paper off the crayons and breaking them into small pieces. I separated them into two  patty pans, one with cool colours and the other with warm.

I popped them into the oven which I had pre heated to 200 Degrees Celsius , and lined a baking tray with foil just incase there were any leaks.

I left them in the oven for approx 15 minutes until the crayons were all liquefied.

I removed them from the oven and allowed them to cool, once cooled I popped them into the freezer to set.

Once set I peeled away the patty pan, (some of the paper stuck slightly to the discs, this will rub off once the crayons are used). And there you have it, a simple way to reuse all those pesky bits of crayon.
I love the way the colours have marbled and can't wait for Miss M and Master E to use them!

Crayon Resist Easter Eggs

Master E has a love for Chocolate Eggs, Drawing and Paint. So we decided to combine all of these when creating some Easter Decorations.
Crayon Resist is super easy and you get gorgeous colourful results every time.
To start with I printed off some templates of Easter Eggs.

Master E enjoyed colouring all over the Easter Eggs. He is into spirals, spots and stripes at the moment. These crayola crayons were great as they were very vibrant.

Eggs all ready for painting.

Painting over the crayon using water colour paints. We used paint cakes in a set of 6.

A face on one of the eggs up close.

Master E was having so much fun with this that after we finished the eggs we got out some more paper and did some drawings.
He loved using the white crayon that you couldn't see on the white paper and painting over to reveal his image.

There was lots of wow and amazement at the image appearing.

We did lots and lots of E's, Master E loves EEEE's!

A close up of the E he drew and then revealed with the paint.

When the eggs were dry we cut them out and have strung them up as Easter garland.