While on the hunt for toddler furniture we found some Halloween treasures at the the thrift store. I got a tablecloth, some pumpkin plates, a big fuzzy spider and a pumpkin pan. I knew Roo (aka Miss Pumpkin obsession) would happily play with it in her play kitchen and I could obviously make cakes, but I was sure the potential was more vast than that. My first pumpkin pan project: rainbow crayons!
Pumpkin Rainbow Crayons
Materials
- Old Broken Crayons
- Olive Oil
- Pumpkin Pan (or alternately a regular muffin tin)
First step fish out all the broken crayons from your kids' stash. Then start unwrapping! My tendency was to target the cheap ones that came home from restaurants or with kits of one kind or another first. Trouble is those are the hardest to liberate from their wrappers. Crayolas are double wrapped so you tear and unroll, but cheap crayons have their wrappers hot glued on. You have to scrape them off a piece at a time and than scratch off the glue.
Once your crayons are naked grease your pan (or put in muffin cups). Then fill each cup halfway. Easy Peasy! Then pre-heat your oven to 350 and bake for 10minutes. Keep an eye on them you don't want them to burn just melt.
Then just take your molten hot crayon soup out of the oven and pop in the fridge for 30minutes.
Out they come, cool and solid. At this point they should lift right out if you greased your pan. If you did a shape like I did the edges may be fragile, be careful.
Super cute, yeah? I love them. As you can see I bagged them right up and marched them over to Roo's school. Wipe them down before you pass them out so they're not super greasy from the olive oil. I think they'd be super cute with just fall colors too.
Test subjects approved (:
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