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How To Make Dinosaur Crayons

How To Make Dinosaur Crayons

Leo and Stella are making Dinosaur Crayons! If you have broken wax crayons lying around than this fun activity is for you and it is extremely popular with children! This is a great and easy DIY activity for kids and for those children who love dinosaurs. Here is is a quick guide on how to make your own dinosaur crayons: Preheat the oven to 150 degrees Celsius. Next, peel the paper wrappers from the crayons. Break the crayons into pieces. Smaller bits will melt more quickly in the oven and will therefore have less time to run and bleed into neighboring colors. Use a kitchen knife to cut pieces down to about 1cm. Fill molds with crayon pieces. You can mix colours together for beautiful rainbow crayons. Make sure to just slightly overfill each mold, as the crayons will melt down and take up less space. -Place the molds on a cookie sheet and bake them in the oven for about 5 to 7 minutes or until the crayons are completely melted. Very carefully, so as to not spill any melted crayon, remove the cookie sheet from the oven. As the crayons cool, they will harden. To speed up the process, transfer the molds into the freezer after the crayons firm up. After about 30 minutes, remove the molds from the freezer. If the bottoms of the mold are cool, you can release the crayons from the mold by first gently pulling and stretching the molds to loosen up the crayons and then pushing each crayon up and out from the bottom. If the molds are still warm to the touch, return them to the freezer and check again in 10 minutes.