Glitter Llama Crayons: An easy and fun activity! Only need crayons, glitter, and a silicon mold!
Do your kids love to craft? Do you have an excessive amount of small bits of crayon around you don’t know what to do with but know you don’t want to just throw them away? Melt them. Seriously, both the love of crafting and crayons as well as literally the crayons. This has been one of the easiest crafts we’ve done in a while that not only did my kid’s enjoy but gave purpose to our little bits of crayons that were taking up pencil case space.
What you’ll need:
Crayons (recommend Playskool brand for easier peel, also available at dollar tree for $1/box)
baking sheet
glitter (optional but highly encouraged ;) )
Steps:
Preheat the oven to 350ºF.
Peel crayons and group by desired color combos. Recommend grouping by color and its various shades but can also be a great opportunity to talk to littles about color combos, mixing, and reenforce the learning color concepts.
Fill each mold to the top. Pieces don’t have to be super tiny, break to where they fit but don’t feel a need to make tiny, just enough to fill. For this mold it required 3-4 crayons per llama as I intend to use as party favors for a first birthday. Other molds may not be as deep, whatever mold you’re using fill to the top. Do not exceed to prevent any overflow.
Optional if you wish to add any glitter sprinkle prior to baking at this point. I run a girl gang of 4 ages 5 and under so this is a mandatory step LOL
Place mold on baking sheet and bake for 10 minutes at 350ºF.
Remove and place tray in freezer for 10 minutes.
As long as melt is no longer running the crayons are done! Remove from freezer and carefully remove from molds for new shapes! That’s it!
Step 2 & 3: we’ve found best success by keeping to color groups but mix as you please!
Llama complete!
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