Crayon recycling is something I loved to do as an Early years teacher. The classroom always ended up with small stubs of crayons and rather than throw them away, the teachers would recycle crayons into new and interesting multicoloured shapes.
Easter is an amazing time and a great opportunity to have fun with kids and get them learning.
Today I am sharing this fun and colourful crayon recycling tutorial for making recycled crayons for Easter with the kids.
Enjoy!
Crayon Recycling Activity
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I’ve alway been a fan of the quote, “Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without”. It’s one of my favourite quotes and today, we are recycling and reusing old crayons to create something new.
It’s a fab idea and something the kids will love to make and enjoy to use after.
You can make this with any shape mould but as it’s an Easter themed post we are making Easter Bunny Crayons on the blog today.
What You Need For This Crayon Recycling Activity
In order to recycle old crayons you will need to gather the old and broken crayons you find around the home.
You also need a mould which could be any shape.
As it’s Easter we will be using an Easter Bunny Candy Mould. There are so many different moulds to choose from.
BAKER DEPOT 6 Holes Heart Shaped Silicone Mold For Chocolate, Cake, Jelly, Pudding, Handmade Soap, Set of 2
JUMBO sized Silicone EMOJI Molds for Baking Chocolate Candy Cookies Soap Ice by PennyCo Kitchen – 32 Cavity 2 Pack SetJUMBO size GUMMY BEAR Mold by the Modern Gummy + Recipe PDF, PROFESSIONAL GRADE PURE LFGB SILICONE, 22 cavity, Candy, Soap Molds, Jello Shots, Cupcake topper, Chocolate Making, Ice tray (1)
How To Recycle Crayons
Preheat oven to 275 degrees.
Peel the paper off the crayons and make sure they are broken into very small pieces.
Fill each bunny mould with different colours, or your own colour choices.
Bake in the oven for 5-7 minutes or completely melted.
Remove from oven and let cool completely and pop out of moulds.
Once the crayons are ready it’s time to colour and have some fun.
I hope you enjoyed the tutorial. It’s easy simple and a great way to be frugal, recycle and not waste.
To read more ideas on recycling and tips on reducing waste read this post!
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These are extremely cute. I know my littlest kids would be so excited to do this craft. I’m going to give it a try! Thanks so much.
oh it’s a simple and easy one to do. Enjoy!
This is so awesome! I am going to be doing this with the kids we have so many broken crayons from my two-year-old this is fabulous! Thank you thank you thank you for sharing!
Oh i bet you have fun with this!
These are SO. CUTE! Now I’m anxious to make some with my kids – we have about a zillion crayons in our house that never get colored with because they aren’t “new” anymore. This is such a great way to revive them and make them cool again so they aren’t being wasted anymore!
ooh let me know how it goes!
This super adorable! I have always wanted to try making my own crayon molds like this. A friend said the part that takes the longest is unwrapping the crayons. Do you have a suggestion for that process.
Such a cute and funny idea! So colorful and perfect for kids!
I love this idea, great way to get more mileage out of your old and broken crayons! Also the bunny shape seems like it should be very comfortable for little hands!
These are so cute and such a great idea!! Our crayons are still intact but I know to save all the broken bits as they happen!
Me too. I have a little container for broken ones now!
What an awesome idea. I have a ton of small crayon parts just in a bucket that my daughter broke. I kept them for something, but I wasn’t sure what. I knew there had to be fun crafts like this to make use of them!
haha! I hope you enjoy using them!
This is amazing! I’m pinning this! My daughters will be thrilllled! Thank you 🙂
I’m glad you like the idea!
Such a cool idea. Totally doing this for Easter. As a parent, love your philosophy on reusing/ recycling.
Thanks. Recycling is such a great thing to teach kids.
It’s so very easy! It would be nice to do this with all the crayons that the twins used to use for school when they were little. It’s a nice giveaway for kids.
Yes, it’s something you could put in party bags!
My daughter and I have done something similar before. It’s really fun and it’s a great way to recycle old crayons. We sort them according to color though so that she can still use the original colors.
It is a feb way to recycle and lots of fun all at the same time! 🙂
I love this idea. My son is to young right now for crayons. Everytime I give him one he ends up eating it least tries to so colored pencils for now. I definitely will keep this for when he does.
OH my goodness, this is such a cute idea. I’m so glad I didn’t throw out the kids broken crayons this weekend like I had planned to.
This is such a cute idea. I plan to do this for my daughter.
What a cute and clever idea, melting the crayons into another shape. I love it.
wow, my kids will surely enjoy this. From now on, I will no longer throw those small crayons away. Something worthwhile for my kids to do.
I’ve done this before back when we had TOO many broken crayons. Such an effective upcycling project! 🙂
yes it’s a great activity!