Recycle the kids broken crayons with this crafty gift! - Mouths of Mums

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We have more broken crayons than useable crayons in our house right now, but I’ve found a great way to put them to a good use!

Next time you discover broken or unused crayons, don’t throw them out, recycle them for gifts!

Make your own shaped crayons

What you’ll need:

Crayons
Silicone baking mould

Method:

Sort out all your old crayons and peel off the paper if required.
Pack your broken bits of crayon into your silicone baking moulds.
Place your tray in your oven and turn your oven to 100 degrees celsius.
Keep checking and once they have melted, remove from the oven and leave to cool.
Once cooled completely, pop out your new crayons and they are ready to gift, or use.

These would make cute gifts for the class or as a party favour and a great way to use up unwanted crayons.

Will you try to make these? Please add comment below.

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- - mom476078 said
  - 29 Oct 2021
    8:59 pm
That is brilliant! We broke about three crayons today!

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- - meedee said
  - 10 Aug 2021
    12:21 pm
brilliant. I guess i need to invest in some silicone moulds

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- - Frankiielot said
  - 18 Oct 2020
    9:24 pm
Oh my goodness, such a great idea!
Thanks so much for sharing. I remember having all these short crayons when I was a kid going into the bin but this idea is such a good one to help reduce waste.
Thank you so much for sharing.

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- - mom81879 said
  - 28 Nov 2019
    5:40 pm
What a great way to use up all those broken bits of crayon

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- - mom94125 said
  - 01 Sep 2016
    5:20 pm
i love this recycling idea! we always have broken or small crayon bits! now i will collect them for this idea

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- - ella12 said
  - 16 Aug 2016
    4:02 pm
Wow, very clever indeed. Thank you.

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- - rovermum said
  - 01 Aug 2016
    9:23 am
What a simple and fantastic idea.

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- - Melissa89 said
  - 29 Jul 2016
    11:29 am
What a fantastic idea! You could make some really fun shapes as well

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- - mom134803 said
  - 29 Jul 2016
    3:57 am
Great idea ! And how cute you can give them all kind of different shapes and forms

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- - mom101628 said
  - 28 Jul 2016
    10:31 pm
Fantastic idea – just love the recycling of old crayons into a new gift.

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- - mom59036 said
  - 28 Jul 2016
    8:28 pm
Creative idea would blow every mind.

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- - nealsq said
  - 28 Jul 2016
    8:22 pm
awesome idea, could make some really cool designs!

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- - curlytops said
  - 28 Jul 2016
    8:07 pm
great idea – i just need to find some shaped moulds!

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- - mom134803 said
  - 09 Jul 2016
    8:09 am
Great idea, also nice to make them multi-coloured !

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- - Lori-Anne said
  - 28 Jun 2016
    5:08 pm
This is such a cool idea. I don’t have a lot of crayons in my house at the moment. The boys are older and my daughter is to young for crayons.

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- - mom111362 said
  - 27 Jun 2016
    12:51 am
trying to collect some right now!

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- - BellaB said
  - 26 Jun 2016
    2:58 pm
That’s a handy idea, thank you.

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- - wendy_adhofer said
  - 16 Jun 2016
    7:33 pm
wow how awesome and cool is this idea, shared on facebook.

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- - Jessica said
  - 29 May 2016
    10:05 pm
I love the idea of recycling in any way we can what a great idea for many households with the dreaded broken crayons

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- - Shelley O'Connor said
  - 27 May 2016
    9:04 pm
Would be great with multi coloured crayons

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