My son is the type of kid who likes to break tiny things into even tinier things. I don’t understand the motivation, but who am I to dictate how he spends his down time? Recently I found a rice cake I’d given him, broken down into individual pieces of puffed rice in a small pile on his play table. More often than not, it’s a newspaper torn to tiny pieces in some corner of the house. Occasionally, it’s bit pieces of crayons.
When I think of it, I’ve saved the little bits of crayons in a Ziplock bag until there’s enough for a few good chunk-sized crayons, and then leave them in the sun on a hot day in an ice cube tray. If the weather cooperates, I flip over the ice cube tray and we have chunky brand new crayons – hopefully for actually coloring with this time – by day’s end. If not, a few minutes in the microwave does the trick as well.
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I’m so trying that. We have so many little crayon pieces. And a nice, sunny back yard!
So my wife made these for my son the other day. She actually mixed some colors together which seems like a nice touch because he’s absolutely enamored with them. The thing is though, when I came home from work the other day he ran up to me and said what seemed to be “Daddy I ‘maided’ you a pisher!” I myself am just wondering if that’s normal behavior because personally I couldn’t understand what the devil he was talking about.
Great idea to just use good ol’ sun – didn’t think of that! We did these for Christmas but I used the oven and then popped them into the freezer for 5 minutes. We used gingerbread man molds. The colors were wild!