Well... maybe not ever - but it certainly gave me a few hours of peace and quiet! We have been learning about how things change (water to ice back to water, crayons and pencils when used cannot change back, etc) Here are the girls crayons that they documented the change in over the last few weeks:
Brand new crayons - this is not the whole pack, just a few of the main colors.
A week later, oops! Karis got ahold of the crayons and she loves to break them! I don't know if she does it on purpose or if she just presses way to hard.
So that was the experiment on 'change' that we did. However, I decided to take it one step further! The girls and I got up and drove to Joann's in -20 degree weather the other day!!! LOL! Seriously, I think my boogers froze when I had to get gas! Anyway... 40 minutes later we were in Joann's searching for candy molds.
When we got home, I had the girls round up all their broken crayons (and a few unbroken ones that we needed). They spent the next 45 minutes peeling the paper off and breaking into little pieces. This is what we ended up with.
I put the muffin tin in a 350 degree oven for about 6-7 minutes, until the crayons were melted. Then I carefully picked up the paper cups and poured them into the candy molds. I have read online that you can also use paper cups (thicker than cupcake holders) in the microwave for 4-5 minutes. I think next time I'll do that!
About 30 minutes later they were cooled! They just popped out of the molds like ice cubes. And this is what kept my girls busy for the next 2 hours!!!!! Best $4 I've spent in a long time!!!
4 comments:
So purty!!!! I wanna come colour in too!
I think it's a fabulous idea!!
What an awesome project. Thanks for sharing. Don't you love it when learning is fun.
Yours turned out so pretty! I did that in shaped muffin pans but let Chuck cook them and they seperated. You can cook them on really low for about 20 min. I think and you don't have to transfer them. Leah
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