I would say that I am a semi crafty person. I have a lot of things I would like to do but I never really get around to it, cuz laziness, but sometimes I get some things done. If I do craft it usually will be around Christmas for presents and whatnot. I have been thinking about making crayons out of old crayon pieces for a long time cuz I have a butt load of old crayon pieces and it looked so easy. (Spoiler alert, it’s not. At least not for me.)
So the steps are supposed to go like this: You pick out the crayons you want to use, you soak them in water, you remove the paper wrapper, you break them into pieces and put them into a silicone mold or cupcake tin or what have you. You bake them and then you pop them out of the what have you and you have cute recycled multi colored crayons.
These were the steps I followed. I picked out mostly the Rose-Art crayons and and big chunky toddler crayons cuz I hate them but I had regular Crayola’s in there too.. It all started falling apart when I went to remove the paper. I had soaked them overnight, and from the blog I was looking at the paper was supposed to just come off. The only one’s that came off were the chunky toddler crayons but these had also gotten weirdly jelly like in consistency as they had soaked. The Rose-Art crayons were mostly easy to take the paper off but there was still a line of glue I had to scrape at. The Crayolas were not wanting some come off at all. I even ended up just throwing some away cuz who wants a wet crayon and they were too much to fight to get the paper off.
Anyway at this point I was sufficiently annoyed and glad I had decided to do this without my daughter who would have had to stand around for like an hour while I was scraping paper off of wet crayons.
Breaking them up and putting them in the moulds was easy, except for the jelly like toddler crayons which were now all sticky and weird. Anyway I didn’t think too much of it and filled the moulds pretty full. I put the over on 250 and set the little buggers to melt. The instructions I had said 10 minutes. Well I waited 1 minutes and they were just beginning to melt. I waited another 10 minutes, probably could have gone with less, and checked again. They were sufficiently melted.
After they were dried I went to pop them out of the mold and became annoyed again. I would say at least a third of them broke as I went to pop them out and the molds containing the chunky toddler crayons were like somehow still weirdly sticky. Like they didn’t solidify right so there went about half of they crayons I made.
All in all I was just looking some something cute and homemade and useful and I guess that’s what I got but it definitely wasn’t worth it in my opinion.
Any crafty things that wern’t worth it for you?
