Ever wonder what you can do with all those broken and barely used old crayons? Recycle them into a candle. We started the day by going on a reconnaissance mission digging through old boxes of art supplies we found a bounty of old Crayola Crayons. We then went through the painstaking process of peeling all the labels off. This took a while, I ruined a nail, and we needed to take a break for food. But after we were finished we sorted them into colors. Illustrated here using my cool iPhone app hipstamatic.
We melted them by color in this candle making machine I have (quite frankly, can’t remember where or when I got it.) We dripped the melted wax into a mold. I stuck the mold into the freezer between color drips. Apparently crayons can stay liquidy for a long time. After a few pours…voila. Instant cool candle. We used every crayon except the gold one, which Ella wanted to keep and not melt down. Today, it was her favorite color.
