Eart Day Party Planning part deux- planet earth heart crayons

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The kids and I collected all their broken blue and green crayons and melted them down to create our heart shaped planet earth crayons. What a fun project! And, in recycling the crayons, we are also doing a tiny little good too!

Here's how to:

Step 1: collect all broken blue and green crayons. if your family is anything like ours, you will be amazed at the mountain of broken/discarded crayons. you want more blue than green, since planet earth is mostly water, hence mostly blue ;)

Step 2: chop crayons (on surface that is only used for crafts, the waxy crayons don't wash off)
Step 3: find a heat resistant mold you want to use, ours is heart shaped silicone.
Step 4: fill the shapes, we mixed the colors up, and again, made sure there was more blue than green.
Step 5: "bake" at 250 degrees for about 20 minutes until all crayons have melted
Step 6: with a craft tool swirl the melted wax a little to copy the geographic atlas look

Step 7: let set overnight of for at least 2-3 hours
Step 8: gently remove from mold and keep in airtight container

We can't wait to share these with our friends together with the coloring page we created!