Broken crayons are the worst! I never want to throw them out, but, they are hard to use and I always end up buying more. Well, this DIY is the greatest solution ever for all those broken crayons. These adorable DIY Melted Crayon Flowers are so easy to do and a great craft for kids to help with! Let them help you gather the crayons and place them in the tray. They will be amazed at the cute flowers they turn into! Melting down the broken crayons and making swirly, sweet, flower shaped crayons will also be awesome for the craft room, a child’s playroom or as a gift, wrapped up in cute paper!
DIY Melted Crayon Flowers
Materials:
21 crayons (3 of each: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, and white)
Flower shaped silicone mold
Sharp knife
You will also need:
Oven/Oven mitts
Freezer
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees
2. To remove the wrappers from your crayons, carefully score the crayon wrapper from top to bottom and the wrapper should slide right off.
3. Break your crayons into several difference pieces, or use up all those old broken crayons you have sitting around.
4. Place your crayons inside the flower molds, place your red on one side then going to orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, and white.
5. Place your mold in the oven, cook for about 8-10 minutes.
6. Carefully take your mold out of the oven, and set on a flat surface in the freezer for around 20 minutes, or until your crayons are cool and solid.
7. Carefully remove the crayons from your molds and they are ready to use!
Makes 6 fun Flower Crayons.
I don’t like to throw away crayons either so this is just a cool idea! I love how simple it is and pretty too. Thanks for the inspiration.
What a great craft for using those broken crayons. I wonder what other shapes you could make.
What a great idea. I always have so many broken crayons and my grandchildren don’t want to use them. It’s such a waste. Now I think they will loving making these flower shaped crayons and love using them too….
This is so timely. I just gathered up a container of old crayons and was trying to decide to keep or toss so this would be so much more fun. Cant wait to try it.
Fantastic! Never thought of this before,I’m going to try it!!
these crayon flowers are so fun to make and the kids love coloring with them.
What a marvelous idea!
I’m always looking for ways to avoid throwing our art supplies and this idea for old crayons is great .It looks easy and the flowers are so pretty. Have pinned.
I love this!! My kids have sooo many crayons and this would be awesome to do with them! Would love to see you at my craft party which is new Thursdays at 7pm EST. Have a great weekend!
These are cool!! You could make many things with these too. Like cars etc.. Thanks for sharing. I love crafts!
I love this project and do have extra muffin tins just for the crayons. I also have some magnetic backing I could use to turn some of them into magnets for the frig.
I love this idea so much! This is a great way to use old or broken crayons that are no longer easily held. My nephews would love to do this activity with me. I’m pinning this for later….thanks for sharing!
I was actually thinking of trying to make this and use heart shapes and try adding a few essential oil to give
it a nice scent to the crayons..
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This is a wonderful and colorful idea! The flowers came out so pretty. My daughter would have loved doing this when she was young!
wow!!! I feel like I am throwing away broken crayons left and right with my two toddlers. This is genius and my kids would love the cool multi-colored flower design!! Thank you for sharing!
What a cute shape idea for this project.