What to do with crayons? How about 35 kids activities for them, other than coloring!
Everyone has at least one pack of crayons, right?
We seem to have them all over.
What to do with crayons, besides color?
My kids don’t like to color. [Seriously, anything but coloring... any experiment, art project, or even craft, and they're all for it.] Although, we’ve just recently discovered twistables crayons
Well, turns out, a lot. I’ve searched for some fun ideas to do with our crayons, and came up with 35 uses for our crayons. Things to create with crayons [some craftier things], some art ideas for crayons, and even some activities to do with crayons!
Need more inspiration for your crayons?
I have an ongoing collection on my Pinterest Color Me a Crayon board.
So, let’s be honest.
How many crayons do you have lying around, broken up, or not used.
What will you do with your crayons?
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thanks so much for mentioning our warming tray melty crayons… it’s sooo satisfying to do that! i’ll have to pull the warming tray back out again soon. thanks for the inspiration AND for all of these fab crayon ideas! we do have too many crayola nubs laying around our art cabinet.
Jamie, thanks for showcasing our hand print tree. I cannot wait to check out the batik fabric link. What a wonderful collection of ideas you’ve got here!
Thanks for linking up!
Thanks Jamie for using our Crayon Monogram
I’m truly amazed at all this wonderful things that you can use crayons for!! Wow!!
~MiaB
Ha ha! Loved your crayon monogram. Couldn’t have NOT included it! Thanks for the great inspiration!
Fantastic post! Rosie doesn’t like to color with crayons either, and now I have lots of inspirations for how to use them
Good luck! Coloring may now be ‘overrated’
Great collection of ideas Jamie!!
Thanks
Another test
thanks for sharing.
What a great round up!! So many lovely ideas for the humble crayon:)
What a fun roundup of Crayon ideas, how can you not love crayons! We’re just exploring crayons at our house for the first time in Baby Time. I recently posted about My First Scribbles but now I’m added this link to that for more ideas for parents! http://theeducatorsspinonit.blogspot.com/2012/02/baby-time-my-first-scribbles.html
Thanks so much for featuring my crayon batik! It is an honor to have my project included on your site!
suzy
You’re very welcome! I’ve had a lot of compliments on your batik! Its so gorgeous!
Thanks so much for the feature of my melted crayon/pointillism art.
Thank you for showing our lanterns in this wonderful and creative collection.
Nadine
You’re very welcome! Thanks for such a creative idea!
What a great list of ideas.
Hi there, thanks for the great ideas. Here is another one. In my class we love to build with crayons. The children use a variety of crayons to create whatever it is they want with the crayons. After a child has completed his/her creation I take a picture and they create something else. We do this in conjunction with the letter C.
That is a fun idea, Jennifer. I see Crayon Log Cabins in my near future!
Awesome stuff! Thanks for sharing. Very clever.
Thanks so much for the great ideas! Now I know what we we’ll be doing with all of our junky crayons.
I have been obsessed with crayons since my kids were babies (they are now 14 and 17). I am always looking for something to do with crayons and I have never seen such a comprehensive compilation of ideas. WOW!!
Thanks so much for putting this together in one place!
Thank you so much for the compliment. I can’t take credit for the ideas, but I love to find them and put them altogether as a great resource to come back to.
Thanks so much for including my crayon picture frame. What a terrific compilation of projects! My girls have moved on to other things besides crayons, but I can’t help myself from buying new boxes every year when the school supplies come out, LOL – so now we have some new project ideas to use them up!
Awesome!! These look really fun, thanks for this great post!
Thank you for this information. This is great stuff. I have been trying to think of something different to do with my 3 year old – this is perfect.
Cover a warming tray with foil. Melt various colors of crayons directly on the warming tray. Silver and gold metallic crayons work really nice with this craft. Take a plain piece of copy paper and lay it on top. Tap it a bit to allow the paper to soak up the melted colors. Drag it a bit as you pull it off. You will have a great colorful page to cut out shapes and use for greeting cards or window crafts.
I love this idea — thanks Terry!
Hi,
I love all these ideas and I found your site when researching an article I wrote about how to go green in the classroom. All these are great for re-using old crayons and I wanted to link your blog in my article if that’s ok. The article is at http://jenbeach21.hubpages.com/hub/go-green-kids.
You may also recycle your crayons through the National Crayon Recycle Program http://www.crazycrayons.com
Great Ideas… ; )
Awsome ideas for crayons. When I was little we collected old pieces of broken used crayons during the year . Near Mothers Day we collected a school milk carton bought at school ,rinse it out an dried. We then had a washer on a piece of waxed twine. At one end was the washer and on the other end a pensil that was laid across the milk carton. The teacher had a hotplate. She first melted the blue and poured about a 1/4 of carton. Then repeated the step after allowing the crayon to set with red , pink, orange,green, etc. After allowing it to set again we then peeled the carton off. What beautiful candles we each had to take home at the end of the year.
I took the scraps of crayons and melted them in a lego man mold and created gifts for the Primary children in our ward.
http://rognvaldr.blogspot.com/2013/03/lego-man-crayons.html