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How To Melt Crayons In The Oven
Learn how you can make homemade crayons and how to melt crayons in your oven.
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Prep:
5
minutes
mins
Creating:
15
minutes
mins
Dry Time:
20
minutes
mins
Total Time:
40
minutes
mins
Equipment
Muffin Tin, Silicone Molds or Cookie Cutters
Oven
Supplies
Foil Cupcake Liners
not if doing them in silicone molds
Old Crayons
Cup Of Water
optional
Instructions
Preheat oven to
250° F
.
Peel wrappers off of crayons.
Place foil liners in muffin tins, cookie cutters or place silicone molds on a baking sheet.
Add broken crayon
pieces in liners. Fill each cup about 2/3 of the way up.
Cook crayons for
9-11 minutes
or until the wax is fully melted.
Pull out of the oven
as soon as you see the crayons melted.
Let the
crayons cool
until the wax has solified.
Carefully peel off liner or remove them from the molds and have fun drawing with your new crayons.
Notes
All temperatures and times may vary due to your oven.
Check your crayons as they are in the oven and pull them out as soon as they are melted.
Use broken crayon pieces that you know will mix well together.
It takes around 20 minutes for the crayons to cool down before being able to take off the liner.
Author:
Erin
Cost:
under $5