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Most families with kids have an endless supply of crayons. They seem to be everywhere: under sofas and the kitchen table, in boxes and desk drawers, under bathroom cabinets and within tool boxes. Can you name more places to find crayons, broken and whole? Here’s a cool way to recycle all of your broken crayons.

What you’ll need:

• Cookie cutter or candy molds
• Old sauce pan and clean tin can(s)
• Stove (make sure you have an adult with you to use the stove!)
• Lots of broken crayons
• Aluminum foil

What to do:

1. Peel all of the paper off of your crayons
2. Put pieces of crayons into the old sauce pan (you can try mixing colors, or using the same colors all together, it’s up to you), or you can put the crayons in the tin can and put the can in a saucepan with water.
3. Turn the stove on low to melt the wax crayons slowly (ask an adult to help or to do this for you)
4. Place the candy molds or cookie cutters on a sheet of aluminum foil and pour the melted crayon wax into them. You may have to hold down the cookie cutters so the wax doesn’t leak out. If you’re using the tin can in the saucepan, make sure the can is not too hot to touch!
5. Let cool in the fridge, freezer or outside if it’s cold
6. Pop them out and color, color, color!