Monday, February 6, 2012

Heart Shaped Crayons

A few weeks ago one of my "Definitely Do" Top Three DIY Picks was these adorable heart shaped crayons. I loved this for a craft time idea with the kids to make for their friends at Sunday school.



What you need:

- 96 crayons (made 10 heart crayons -  $ 2.00)
- Heart shaped silicon muffin pan ( Wal - Mart for $3.50)

To get started you want to take all the wrappers off the crayons, this was actually more difficult than I expected. My husband took each crayon and with a knife sliced a line down each crayon to make peeling the wrapper much easier. Then, preheat your over to 230 degrees, break up your crayons into a medium size bowl. Once all the crayons are broken fill (all the way to the top) each heart on the muffin pan with the crayon pieces. Put them in the oven for 15 minutes. Take them out once your crayons are liquid. To help mine cool faster I put them in the refrigerator to harden for about 30 minutes. When they are cool all you have to do is pop them out of the silicon pan, this was the easiest part because they slide right out. And Ta-Da!






My Tip: Once the heart crayons were finished we headed to the dollar store to crate a fun little bag to give them to our friends. In the wedding section you can find fold-able cardboard bags then we bought heart stickers to decorate them with. 


"Now get out there and make something beautiful and from the heart"


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