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[fancyfingers]

I do not throw out old crayons. I collect them until I have enough to melt them down and make new crayons! I use toilet paper roll tube lined with foil and put a piece on the bottom and make them that way. Nice to recycle things when you can.

[MakingCents]

fancyfingers, on 02 January 2012 - 07:15 PM, said:

I do not throw out old crayons. I collect them until I have enough to melt them down and make new crayons! I use toilet paper roll tube lined with foil and put a piece on the bottom and make them that way. Nice to recycle things when you can.

that's a cool way to have the crayons have a 'holder' I like using a toilet paper tube.  Great idea!

[Green Thumb]

fancyfingers, on 02 January 2012 - 07:15 PM, said:

I do not throw out old crayons. I collect them until I have enough to melt them down and make new crayons! I use toilet paper roll tube lined with foil and put a piece on the bottom and make them that way. Nice to recycle things when you can.

MakingCents, on 03 January 2012 - 12:50 PM, said:

that's a cool way to have the crayons have a 'holder' I like using a toilet paper tube.  Great idea!

Reading this an idea suddenly popped into my head. You can make a stand out of crayons - lamp stand, pencil stand, utensil stand, and small pots for storage of jewelries, coins or clips. Put a paper cover on your container where you’ll melt your crayons (so it would be easy to remove). Then before it hardened put hard straws or sticks in the middle to serve as holes. When it dried you have a pen stand. You can put bigger holes depending on what you’ll put in it. And if you want you can put designs by sculpting the outside or melting other crayons on it.

[MakingCents]

Green Thumb, on 03 January 2012 - 11:53 PM, said:

Reading this an idea suddenly popped into my head. You can make a stand out of crayons - lamp stand, pencil stand, utensil stand, and small pots for storage of jewelries, coins or clips. Put a paper cover on your container where you’ll melt your crayons (so it would be easy to remove). Then before it hardened put hard straws or sticks in the middle to serve as holes. When it dried you have a pen stand. You can put bigger holes depending on what you’ll put in it. And if you want you can put designs by sculpting the outside or melting other crayons on it.

Hey that's another ogod idea.  We coudl start an entire website off of this thread with ideas how to re-use crayons!

[joeldgreat]

Thanks guys for the great responses. I will surely try many of these simple stuffs with my kids. They're really fun of having recycling old crayons. I just hope that more will post their great ideas about how to recycle old stuffs such as this one. Really all your ideas are amazing.

[kat74]

Never thought of that idea before. When my kids crayon become too small, I just threw them away but now I will spread this good idea around to the kids in my estate. Am sure my kids will have a good time melting and coming up with art or even a bigger crayon.

[kathie_san]

Hey I used to do this when I was a kid! I loved art class and playing with something that involves making fire haha..but really this is a good one. I wish parents are aware of it, 'm sure kids will love it!

[MakingCents]

I wanted to point out- although this is perfectly easy enough to do on your own it does require parental supervision because of flames or ovens being involved.   Crayola has now made a toy that does exactly this but safer!  I would think that any child that can safely plug in and unplug a toy would be able to use this on their own.

[MakingCents]

Here's a link to that crayon maker

http://www.amazon.co...th Story Studio

[rbaker_59]

Green Thumb, on 01 January 2012 - 11:31 PM, said:

Haha! This is exactly how we did it in our art class in grade school (so long ago). Or you could melt crayons in a basin of water. You can make solid designs that you can have standing in table tops for displays. I also want to learn how to turn crayons into candles so I search the net and found this…

http://www.ehow.com/...ld-crayons.html

But if you know a cheaper and better procedure, can you please share? It would be beautiful candles having different colors or designs; and if possible perfumed, too. Is it possible to do scented crayon candles not having to buy perfume stuffs from the store? (Haha! I hope to be a wise buyer and save more this year)

This article is very interesting.  Parafin is not that expensive, but if you had enough crayola pieces to fill the jar, you really would not need it.  Wicks are made of string dipped into wax.  You could take some kite string, or any kind of viable string and dip it into the wax, tie it around the pencil and have the same thing.  Food flavorings and other scented oils can be added to give the scents you desire.  I love scented candles to refresh my home.

[hunysukle]

Crayons are very versatile and have many functions. Kids often throw their crayons away before they're fully used, which is wasteful.

[MyDigitalpoint]

Great  idea re-using crayons. I have tons of lose crayons all over the house, some of them for more than 20 years!

I don't know why I have not threw them away, but I'm glad to know what can I do with them now.

About kids, yes, it's risky give them to little children without adult supervision.

[btatro]

Recycling crayons can be fun! We melted down crayon pieces this year in heart shaped tins to create crayon Valentines for kids daycare and school mates. What a perfect way to recycle all the little broken bits and pieces. Another fun activity is to, with half crayons, attach them to the top of a canvass and melt them with a blow dryer so they run down the canvas and create a neat piece of art.

[Hardison]

Melting down the crayons to make new crayons is a great idea. I would have so much fun mixing the colors. There are some many great ideas on this thead.

[Shortpoet-GTD]

I found this link to recycling crayons-great for teachers too.
http://crazycrayons....le_program.html

[ACSAPA]

One of the most popular pins on Pinterest is melting crayons on a stretched artist's canvas with a heat gun and letting the trails of melted crayon drip down the canvas to make cheap abstract wall art. I think doing it with rainbow crayons looks too childish, but if you wanted a more mature looking version for a dorm room, paint the canvas black first and only melt crayons of specific colors, like gray, aqua or plum.

[Shortpoet-GTD]

I don't know if those different colored candles are still available, but back when the Earth was new,
I used to melt crayons over plain white candles to get the same effect (until my Dad would yell-"what the ****
are you burning up there? Are you smoking?)
(The "store bought" ones would melt into different colors as they burned down.)

[artistry]

Neat ideas, great uses for old crayons. The stubs can be used in many ways, as have been outlined here. Good job.

[kalasin]

This thread has some great ideas.  My son is special needs and broken crayons trigger his anxiety.  Anything not 'as it should be' really bothers him and crayons break so easily that I've been letting him us markers and just hoping for the best.