x24,Top3,TopLeft,x25,x12
transportation footprint quiz promo graphic photo
a discovery company

Make Your Own Recycled Crayons

Jasmin Malik Chua, Jersey City, USA

Jasmin Malik Chua

By Jasmin Malik Chua
Jersey City, NJ, USA | Sun Mar 23, 2008 01:21 PM ET

Recycle crayons


Unknown.

READ MORE ABOUT:
Green Family | Organic Baking | Paper

Melt down and remold your kiddies' crayon stubs into colorful, fun-shape crayons they can have a second go-around with. Here's how:

1. Preheat the oven to 150°F. Remove the paper from around the crayons and chop them into 1/4-inch pieces. You can either sort the colors by color family, or mix them up into piles of contrasting hues.

2. Line your baking tins-you can find tins with all kinds of novelty shapes these days-with tin foil or foil baking cups, and place your crayon pieces in the molds.

3. Place the tins in the oven and bake for 15 to 20 minutes, or just until the crayons have melted. Take the tins out of the oven to cool.

Difficulty level: Easy

 
  • email
  • digg
  • share
  • print
helpful article? vote for it
{ }
close window

CLOSE X

 

comments on this article

view all post a comment

 
 
 
 
 
facebook twitter rss
 
TV Module
 
reel impact
 
Green Materials Guide
 

tv schedule

view all

On Now

On Tonight

 
 

today on planet green

view all

Votes

recent
discussed

Gleaning For The Hungry
POSTED  3 HOURS AGO.  COMMENTS

{ }

Is America's 'Best Idea' at Risk?
POSTED  3 HOURS AGO.  COMMENTS

{ }

Ample Harvest's iPhone App Matches Up Gardeners With Their Hungry Neighbors
POSTED  4 HOURS AGO.  COMMENTS

{ }

Madonna Does Malawi (Again): Material Girl or Like a Green Virgin?
POSTED  4 HOURS AGO.  COMMENTS

{ }

How to Throw a Left Hook (Literally and Metaphorically)
POSTED  20 HOURS AGO.  COMMENTS

{ }

The Eco-Dilemma: To Book, or Not to Book?
POSTED  30 Jan 2010. 9 COMMENTS.

{25}

Ask Emeril Your Green Cooking Questions
POSTED  7 Apr 2009. 72 COMMENTS.

{554}

About Planet Green
POSTED  14 Jul 2008. 27 COMMENTS.

{1093}

7 Foods So Unsafe Even Farmers Won't Eat Them
POSTED  26 Jan 2010. 5 COMMENTS.

{42}

Meet Seth Warren, Director of Nature Propelled, the Documentary
POSTED  28 Jan 2010. 4 COMMENTS.

{64}