If your home is anything like mine, you're constantly picking crayons up off the floor. My little boy colors daily, often for hours at a time. He adores coloring. We're always buying more crayons because he either loses them or they've been worn down to nubbins and hard to color with. Well, here's a tip for you on what you can do with the worn out crayons rather than throwing them away. You can actually recycle the broken crayons and make them into candles. You can teach your children how they can create something new and useful from something old. You'll want to burn these darling homemade candles yourself and give them as gifts as well.
This craft project is a wonderful teaching moment with your children. Before you begin to make candles at home, talk to your kids about safety. They'll need to know that the crayons will have to be melted using a very high heat, and they cannot do that part of the candle making process. Tell them they will have other fun steps in making crayon candles.
Get your supplies together. You'll need about six broken crayons, an empty pint size milk carton, a pound of paraffin wax, two complete trays of ice, a double boiler and about six inches of white twine.
Step one is to cut off the top of the milk carton and leave about six inches of carton to work with. Melt the paraffin wax in the double boiler or coffee can. To help it melt faster, cut it into small chunks. Generally, you will need to wait around twenty minutes for everything to melt.
