How To Recycle Crayons To Give Them New Life

Did you know that you can recycle crayons and give them a whole new life?

If your family is anything like ours than you’ll have a bin of crayons in the craft cupboard that are mostly broken or really worn down. Instead of tossing them away, reduce, reuse and recycle your old beat up crayons and turn them into a fun new set! 

How To Recycle Crayons To Give Them New Life

You’ll Need

Crayons (the old broken ones are perfect!)
Knife
Oven Safe Silicone Mold (I used the Think Geek Stars Wars Ice Cube Trays, These Star Wars Silicone molds from Amazon look similar.)
Oven

Directions

Pre Heat oven to 220 F.

Separate crayons into colour categories such as yellows and oranges, blues, pinks and reds etc. You don’t HAVE to do this, but it does make a nicer crayon if there is only a couple variations in colour. We did a bit of both. 

Using a cutting board and knife, cut the old crayons into smaller pieces to fit your molds.

I used Star Wars Ice Cube Molds, despite being labelled ice cube molds, they are made out of silicone and are both oven and dishwasher safe. They come with two trays of the 4 designs (2 designs per tray).

The molds are really fun to have around, not only can you use them for ice cubes and crayons but you can make Star Wars chocolates or even soaps with them too! Use whatever mold design you like, just be sure they are oven safe. 

You’ll want to overfill your mold. The crayon will melt down and settle lower. The more full they are the less of a dent you’ll get in the back of the crayon.

Place the silicone molds on a foil lined cookie sheet and pop into the oven. The foil is just to protect your sheet in case of a wax spill.

Watch your molds carefully, different sizes and shapes of molds will need different times. These Star Wars molds are large and deeper and  took about 15 min. (when we made these heart crayons , they only took around 5 min.)

Once the wax has turned liquid, remove the sheet from the oven and let cool. In the winter if you live in a cold climate like us up North here, you can pop the whole sheet outside in the cold to speed up the cooling or you can use a fridge once your sheet has cooled off some.

Once the wax has cooled completely you can unmold the recycled crayons and ohhh and ahhh at all the cool colour designs you created. It’s really amazing how much detail comes through, the new crayons unmolded perfectly!

Give your old broken crayons new life and recycle them into something awesome! 

See how we used these Star Wars crayons for Valentine’s Day! 

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