Think Thrifty Thursday-Recycling Crayons | Momspective

Feb
26
2009

Think Thrifty Thursday-Recycling Crayons

think-thrifty-thursday

Step Four of the Cool Mom Guide is to Spend Wisely. I have decided that we will dedicate Thursday to this goal…and Think Thrifty Thursday is born!

This week, I’m featuring my very good friend and neighbor, BassAckwards & Frugal. Be sure to read what she has to say, then leave a link on Mr. Linky with your thrifty find.

As part of my quest to be frugal and thrifty, I generally try to take advantage of multiple use items. I ran across a great idea last year, recycling crayons. I’m sure that most all parents at some point have tossed out their fair share of crayon bits and pieces. I know I have, and I’m thrilled to have found a fun new way to re-use them!

Recently our youngest went through a couple weeks of the yuck, having had a stomach virus one week, and a cold the very next. We had to get resourceful and fill in the time that would otherwise be outdoors or a playdate or even a trip to the library. We decided to give recycling our crayon bits a whirl!

Our little guy (3 years old) had a blast helping me peel, break, and sort them for the baking. I followed these instructions for the most part, I changed my oven temp half way through the project to 275 degrees because after 35 min the crayons were not even 1/2 melted. The montage below is a quick view of the process step by step.

I read somewhere else that you can use the silicone baking pans for more fun shapes. Just remember if you try this, the pan you use will forever be dedicated to crafts afterwords!

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO ON HER WEBSITE!

Click on a tiny icon to spread the Momspective Love!:
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Digg
  • StumbleUpon
  • Technorati
  • RSS
  • email
  • Google Bookmarks
  • MySpace
  • FriendFeed
Written by Julie in: Thrifty Thursday

8 Comments »

RSS feed for comments on this post | TrackBack URL | Create your avatar

Leave a Reply

Site Theme by The BuckMaker | Site Design by Amanda Meares | RSS Feed | Privacy Policy
Copyright © 2009 Momspective™ A division of Cool Mom Guide, LLC. All Rights Reserved

This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. This blog does accept forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, or paid topic insertions. I will and do accept and keep free products, services, travel, event tickets, and other forms of compensation from companies and organizations. The compensation received will never influence the content, topics or posts made in this blog. I am sometimes compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. Even though I receive compensation for some of our posts or advertisements, I always give my honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products. If compensation is received for a post, it will be clearly disclosed in the post. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely my own. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question.