The amount of art & craft stuff we have is tremendous, and my younger son is finally getting to a stage where he wants to draw and paint so it’s been great having his handiwork on display around the house. I noticed recently how many scrap ends, broken lumps and half chewed crayons we had lying around so over the last week while Bob and I gutted the kids rooms I saved all the bits of crayon.

I finally had half an hour free the other night, so out came all the collection and I added into it a few packs of the free crayons you get from restaurants. We ended up with a fairly large selection! We cut them up into smaller chunks for ease.

Pile them up into a mini muffin tin. Bear in mind they’re going to melt.

Pop the tray in the oven – I put ours in at gas mark 4 (180C/350F) and it took 5-6 minutes for all the crayons to melt enough.

When you take the tray out, all the colours will have blended but won’t have mixed to create a uniform khaki brown with luck!

Leave the tray to cool overnight, and pop them out in the morning. Great for little hands that are just developing their manual dexterity!

In other news, our eldest dressed as a headless man complete with papier mache decapitated head for Hallowe’en. Unfortunately we didn’t take any photos of the process, but here’s the end product! Excuse the homemade artwork and scrawlings on the door behind him!

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