I love getting crafty and I'm not-so-secretly hoping that it rubs off on my kids. Each year Fletcher and I make Valentines for his friends at school out of scrap booking paper and any other crafty goodies we have around the house. It's been fun to see how his creations have progressed from year to year, from scribbles to putting stickers on paper to writing his name.
This year we melted some of his old broken crayons and made them into crayon hearts. Sadly, it was not as satisfying as I thought it would be. I've heard that the off-brands don't melt as well as Crayolas. I assumed that meant they took a little longer but, really, they just don't melt. I don't know what the heck they're made out of.
After 2 hours of peeling off labels, and testing out Crayola and RoseArt and crayons collected from various restaurants I found that Crayolas are really the only ones that actually melt. I also found that our microwave seemed to go into self-defense mode after just about 2 minutes of microwaving crayons. It completely shut down for 20 minutes, then turned itself back on. Annoying, but I suppose it's a good safety feature to have.
So I ended up using this yogurt-cup-held-up-by-a-pan-double-boiled-in-an-old-pot method. And just four short hours later we had heart shaped crayons...and a few arrows too.
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