Cool Crayons

I remember seeing my sister in law do this once and I thought it was awesome. I took all of Beck's crayons that were broken and I removed the wrappers. Yeah, that's more irritating than it sounds. Then I put some parchment paper in my cupcake sheet. I don't know if that's a necessary step and it made the edges rougher than I'd like, but I didn't want to risk it sticking to my pan. Then I put little pieces of crayon into the pan. It looks like this:



I had preheated my oven to about 375 and I stuck in the pan and sat and watched them melt. It took about 4 minutes. As soon as they were melted I took them out to cool and almost puked from the smell. I might have cooked them too high or it might just be that I'm pregnant. Did I mention that she did this project a LONG time ago. I can't be expected to remember all the details of the project! When it came out it looked something like this:



I immediately left the kitchen because I thought I might die from the smell. I let them cool and when they finished setting they looked like this:



See what I mean about the jagged edges? It'd probably look better if I didn't use the parchment paper. Don't judge me, it was an experiment. The awesome result are these cool color chips that have lots of fun colors! Beck loves them because he's a big color mixer anyway. I think it looks pretty cool when you color with them.

So there you have it. My very own do-it-yourself project. I feel like such a mom. Oh and for the record, I miss you all on facebook so be sure you comment something!